Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

A Pronunciation Guide for Names

• In-person meetings

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Time management tools Dewo and Timely

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Access social benefits
• Data schemas and standards

Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations. By providing high-quality professional graphic design and web development services, we aim to help build and strengthen progressive movements fighting for economic and social justice.

• Civic and social impact companies

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.

• Conferences
• Fight disinformation
• In-person meetings

We provide an easy-to-use, modern-era database with voter files for each of the fifty states.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Participatory democracy

TraceMap is an open source web tool that allows you to visualize the spread of a Tweet, analyze its trustworthiness and to engage with others in fighting misinformation.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Legislation and regulations that impact your life are written every day. With Madison, you can work directly with the sponsors of these documents.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

DECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Ideation
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Communicate your stance on issues you care about directly to your congressperson

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

• The People
• Funders & donors
• Get funding

The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Funders & donors
• Get funding

We transform conflict in the digital age

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

bluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The James Irvine Foundation

• The People
• Funders & donors
• Get funding

Issue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Jefferson Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing democratic, citizen-driven solutions to community and public issues.

• methodology

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Co-design

Sphaera is a systems design firm that conceptualises, designs and develops legal, financial and technical infrastructure that supports connecting, collaborating and sharing resources across disparate organisations, networks and communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

• women

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

A bot of legislative proximity that seeks to promote communication between government and citizens through artificial intelligence.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Mapbox's first event celebrating and exploring the connectedness of the world around us. #explorelocate

• Conferences
• Mapping

GitHub is where people build software. More than 28 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 85 million projects.

• Working groups

A directory of over 900 COVID mutual aid local groups all across the UK, mostly via Facebook groups, and a backgrounder on what they are and how to start one.

• The People
• COVID
• Help out

The first venture fund for startups that are making cities better.

• The People
• Build something
• Funders & donors

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

Baobab Connect provides a set of tools to refer and track cases, manage remote teams and measure impact in the pursuit of access to justice. Baobab Connect allows organizations to:Track referrals - referrals are a crucial component of access to justice.. Keep track of all inbound and outbound cases and keep your clients in the loop; Report and Measure - Reports are one of those things we just can’t get away from. Baobab Connect makes it easy to measure the work being done by your team; Maintain Security & Privacy - Using personal emails and IM clients means your clients confidentiality is at risk. Using a centralized system means better control over privileged data.

Upsolve provides assistance to low-income groups by helping them file for bankruptcy. It provides free online guidance for the entire process with the help of pro bono lawyers.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

Froide is a Freedom Of Information Portal using Django 3.2 on Python 3.8+. It is used by the German and the Austrian FOI site, but it is fully internationalized and written in English.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

With Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals