Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Organizations

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Install the Progressive Shopper Chrome extension and quickly understand if you are supporting a brand that is aligned with your values.

• extensions
• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Boycott or buycott

Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Find Swiss Open Government data

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Passport transforms the way cities manage their operations by reducing operational complexity and delivering intelligent data.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Dominion makes data available to help add context and authority to public discourse and policy-making on vital issues of land ownership.

• land
• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Open civic data

Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Facebook, World Bank and the OECD launched a measure of business sentiment based on a “Future of Business Survey” questioning companies that use their Facebook pages to connect with customers.

• Facebook

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

Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

Using modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The only solution designed to activate employees for good and maximize impact through workplace giving and volunteering.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Commercial law lookup tool

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Es un proyecto que nace desde la sociedad civil para fortalecer sus capacidades de incidencia en los procesos de toma de decisión política y en la generación de un debate público informado sobre la pobreza y la justicia social en España.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Good News Podcast is your daily reminder that not all news is bad, produced by Cards Against Humanity.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Activism platform

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...

• Responsible consumption and production
• Life on land
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Legal tech

Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Tools

Urban Affairs Magazine

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

DGI curates focused, in-depth programs where technical communities gather to share their knowledge and success. DGI delivers substantial, useful information

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Safe and anonymous platform for whistleblowing in Chile

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.

• criminal justice

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The must-attend gigabit technology conference for city and community leaders.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Ballot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Vote by Mail

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

This tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital participation platforms

Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.

• Life on land
• forests

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

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

• human rights

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

More Donations. Less Work. Right Now.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Inter-American Development Bank's repository for open-source software

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

Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity.

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

Ekō is 22,823,008 people stopping big corporations from behaving badly.

• Campaign organizations

CDS hires top technologists from diverse backgrounds into term-limited tours of civic service, bringing their expertise to help improve the services that millions of Coloradans use.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Legislative district matching and elected official data

• Civic data
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Enterprise Mobile Messaging that Drives Results

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

Taking control of our movement technology

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools