Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Short for “human experience,” HX is an approach to talking about, engaging with, and designing technology in a way that is aligned with our needs as humans — not users.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Dashboards

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• cities

Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html

• cities

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people are informed and empowered, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good.

• Foundation initiatives
• Open philanthropy

Society for free culture and software

Open Source Software for Journalism

• Media
• Journalism
• Open source developer networks

Quebrando o Tabú is a storytelling organisation focused on raising awareness and engagement around human rights, democracy, and development in Brazil.

Inactive academic program on Free & Open Source Software

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

Our drive and passion is to help government save money and become more efficient through sharing software and collaboration

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

Refugees as City-Makers

• cities
• refugees

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Civic maps

GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM. AWARD-WINNING FILMS.

• Media

The Ferret is an award winning investigative journalism co-operatitive powered by our readers and writers. Join us.

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

privacy filters for shared location links

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Location

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

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

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

An award for the public interest whistleblower of the year

• Awards and prizes
• Whistleblowing

In order to encourage more outstanding talents to invest in the new-type democratic experiment field and accelerate the incubation of more achievements, the g0v zero-hour government loosening group of Dasong is held on a regular basis.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy

Coda Story reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are connected and where they are heading next.

• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Awards and prizes
• Peer networks

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• E-voting and I-voting

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

Taghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

WikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Data science for social good
• Open knowledge
• Digital literacy

Power your mission with industry-leading fundraising and donor management software. Engage donors seamlessly from anywhere with a built-to-grow solution.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The Demography Project is an independent youth-led civic technology and data journalism non profit registered in Kenya.

• youth
• Clean water and sanitation

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Engagement journalism

15 stories of workers fighting back in a digital age

• Decent work and economic growth
• labor

• Books

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

Powering comments sections

• Media
• Engagement journalism

A suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.

• harassment

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Adjacent Fields
• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

• waste
• food
• migration

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Empowering and inspiring civic innovators across central Virginia

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Write rules as code

• Access social benefits
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Budget explorers