Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Open source, open data, and open government.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

• air quality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A group for civic hackers, innovative government employees, and concerned citizens for the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) metro area

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Geoidea.ro stands for GEodata Openness Initative for Development and Economic Advancement in ROmania and started in January 2013. It aims at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

Panacea allows you to check your food stamps and cash benefits balance all on your smartphone.

• apps

• Access social benefits

Parcours interactifs, ateliers, conférences, hackathons, journée portes ouvertes etc. mettent en lumière des méthodes originales pensées par des acteurs locaux pour concevoir plus efficacement les politiques publiques et transformer l'administration.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Holidays

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

Justika offers real-time legal support over the telephone for a broad range of problems, such as marriage, inheritance, and employment.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Our mission is to deliver user-centered technology solutions that simplify access to City services and drive innovation.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Open innovation

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Code for America Summit 2018

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Believing that technology provides endless opportunity, Microsoft Philanthropies works in creating a future where everyone has access to endless possibilities.

• Microsoft

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

We are people who care about our community and want to help make it better.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.

• The People
• Build something
• Data science for social good

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Pro bono and volunteer

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

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

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects

Archive of the civic tech manifesto

• Hubs

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Hope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Causes.com is the world's largest online campaigning platform. We connect people who support a common cause and empower them to run grassroots campaigns.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

City Innovate Foundation

• Hubs

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

• trainings

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

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