Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

Exploring the impact of new technologies on questions of social, racial, and economic justice

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

Accountancy is in crisis. The Corporate Accountability Network exists to identify the causes of that crisis and offer solutions to it.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.

• human rights

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Voluntary Sector Digital Maturity Matrix was a free tool provided by NCVO to assess the current maturity of a voluntary sector organisation's digital capability, compared with its desired target state. Through a simple self-assessment, you could understand where your organisation needs to invest to reach digital excellence.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

• Watchdogging and transparency

To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• cities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

A social platform where you can grade your local government, start discussions, and collaborate together to improve your city.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

• urban planning

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"Google.org and Boulder, Colorado, are teaming up to create a new eligibility calculator, which residents of that city will be able to use to determine if they qualify for public programs, discounts or rebates"

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

With CitySourced, you can deploy an unlimited number of applications to a single native app. From paying bills to election info to FAQs or newsletter signups - downloading a single app is easier for citizens, and it's easier for you!

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

The Greater Washington Community Foundation works to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our community. The Community Foundation - which serves the District of Columbia, Montgomery County, Northern Virginia, and Prince George’s County – makes community change through charitable giving easy, flexible, tax-smart, and rewarding.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Transitioning Ireland to a society based on sustainable practices will require behavioural insights to influence change.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

FixMyCommunity is a system for citizens to report problems in infrastructure or service delivery. FixMyCommunity was originally created by MySociety as FixMyStreet.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Bringing a new approach to urban health, one block at a time

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

private sector tech guidance for the City

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Media and social media analysis
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

The eCityGov Alliance offers easily accessible online government services. Our regional solutions provide one-stop convenience and deliver services from the customer perspective.

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

A new cloud-based platform addresses urban flooding problems through green infrastructure performance monitoring.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Municipalities across the country have joined together to create a new global non-profit organization called the Open Mobility Foundation to support the development of open-sourced software that provides scalable mobility solutions for cities.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Partner networks

The US government's guide to usability methods, guidelines, and tools

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

• racial equity

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Citizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

A report on innovations attempted by Mobile Network Operators following the major earthquake in Nepal

• earthquakes

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good