A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

• cyberwar
• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Zapraszamy do korzystania z otwartych danych Miasta Gdańska. W serwisie publikujemy dane m.in. o miejskich finansach, rozkładach jazdy komunikacji miejskiej, demografii. Otwarte dane czekają na wykorzystanie przez Ciebie, Twoją organizację pozarządową lub firmę!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Code for America Technology Awards recognize outstanding products and implementations of government technology.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Forward is a web app that tracks civic engagement opportunities ranging from town hall meetings, to rallies, to civic art projects throughout the state of Wisconsin.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The project Towards Democratic Auditing will address these challenges by investigating how citizens can intervene into the development and implementation of scoring systems and other forms of data analytics, and how they can advance civic participation in an increasingly datafied society.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Foundational layers

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

• state

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• cities

• Urban planning
• Civic tech catalogs
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

A special report by Micah Sifry

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Reports

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

eine übersichtliche, zentrale Datenbank von der Kommune bis zum Bund – zu Wahlkreisen und Mandatstragenden. 
Mit einer digitalen Landkarte wollen wir Bürgerinnen und Bürgern den Weg durch das Wirrwarr der Zuständigkeiten weisen.

• Communicating with the government
• Find your representatives

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• cities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Meet the others

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM

• Govtech
• Economic development

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

• Surveys & polling
• Polarization

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to  counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Civic data APIs

Donate directly to a homeless person or refugee. Follow their journey into a career and home with our award-winning support 🤝

• homelessness

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Story-based campaigns

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

A decentralized toolkit for funding your critical software dependencies.

• Build something
• Blockchain
• Fundraising tools

We fund new technologies to cultivate internet freedom.

• Get funding
• Decentralization

The initiative seeks to be a centralized repository for information about government commitments and the progress it has made toward achieving them.

• Promise trackers

Parte del programa Justicia Abierta, este es un proyecto integral de apertura institucional, que comprende un software web que permite a las fiscalías sistematizar las solicitudes de acceso a la información condensando datos procesales, de uso

• Civic data
• Justice tech

Rootcause is a not-for-profit consultancy helping forward thinking organisations win in modern digital information ecosystems.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Tussell & techUK are thrilled to share the 3rd annual Tech200 awards - our list of the 200 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK public sector, from FY 2021/22 to FY 2022/23.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Govtech vendors