UK elections database with every district council level election and above

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Civic data APIs

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Catalyst is a network helping the UK third sector grow its digital skills and processes. We offer free services and resources from across our network, curated to support you at every step of your digital journey.

• Nonprofit tech

All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Communicating with the government

The easy way to match points to boundaries

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

A collaborative, investigative network revealing stories that matter to communities across the UK

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall channel rating.

• YouTube

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Factchecking

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

Krama App is a mobile app for responsible consumer who cares whether the business still does business in Russia or not

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Boycott or buycott

The Centre for Democracy was founded in January 2021 to develop the ecosystem of organisations working towards a better democracy in the UK

• Participatory democracy

We are the first donor fund dedicated to community organising. We will provided targeted long-term funding in key geographies across the UK.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• The craft of organizing

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning

Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) is an “accidental professional association” that began in Portland, Oregon in 2012 with a 16 member dinner group. Today, ELGL has grown to over 4800 members from all 50 states plus Canada, UK, Israel, and Australia.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion.

• Ukraine

• Cybersecurity
• Public Private Partnerships

Digitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"

• Ukraine
• apps

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bureaucracy tech

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Brand New Bundestag (BNB) ist eine unabhängige und überparteiliche Graswurzel-Organisation, die sich für eine progressive, zukunftsorientierte Politik einsetzt. Wir unterstützen Menschen, die mit progressiven Ideen frischen Wind in die Parlamente bringen, bei ihrem Weg in politische Ämter.

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

Our democracy tech entrepreneurs fellows are selected from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, which all live in the menacing shadow of Russia.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

• local

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

2022 book by Dan Bouk

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.

• Ukraine
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Participatory memorials

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

We run weekly(ish) civic hacknights for everyone.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsletters

A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy in the United Kingdom.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks

The Campaign for Freedom of Information has been promoting and defending freedom of information in the UK for 38 years.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

Qëllimi i këtij projekti është të mbledhim dhe të ruajmë të dhëna mbi indikatorët ekonomiko-shoqëror në Shqipëri.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open government data

Alt du trenger for å oppdage, vurdere og ta i bruk data

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Watchdog publication in Ukraine, last posts from 2011

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

We help public sector leaders to modernise legacy applications and working practices, accelerate digital service delivery, drive smarter decisions with data and enable improved technology skills within teams.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Service delivery

Як депутати голосують за питання, які важливі для тебе? - They Vote for You instance in Ukraine

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

ПАРЛАМЕНТСЬКІ ДАНІ У ГРАФІКАХ ТА ІНТЕРАКТИВНИХ ТАБЛИЦЯХ (Visualizations of Ukraine Parliamentary data)

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Visualizes votes in Ukrainian parliament

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy
• Books

This handbook provides an overview of the creation, maintenance and adoption of a policy-related open data standard.

• guides

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards