A list of digital standards used by governments around the world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The original online petition site. 20+ million signatures. Unlike others, we are non-partisan, non-ideological. Just the best tools for your campaign.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Mapping

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Cameras
• Direct action

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Journalism
• Learn about civic tech

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."

• Participatory budgeting

A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

More than a doc, Dropbox Paper is a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Group communication tools

Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

DKAN comes out-of-the-box with comprehensive public-facing engagement and administrative site management tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Forms

The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Organizations

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• Innovation teams and labs
• User research
• Courses

CityCamp Oakland. 211 likes. CityCamp Oakland is brought to you by OpenOakland

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Training and empowering young people to help them run for office

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

A tool to help election officials (and election officials only) report problems with election mail

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

BudgIT is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Budget explorers

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundational layers

Jsme komunita špičkových vývojářů, designérů a produkťáků, kteří chtějí ve svém volném čase pomáhat státu i nestátním organizacím a dělat tak Česko lepším místem k životu.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.

• civic features
• COVID-19
• Facebook

• Advertising
• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Portalul declarațiilor de avere și interese

• Watchdogging and transparency

Aktuelle Badegewässerqualität und Informationen rund um die Berliner Badestellen

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports

The professional association for design

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Tools

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Ranked Choice Voting Election Result Visualization

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Data visualization

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

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

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Organizations

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Neighborhood forums

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Open data publishing platforms
• Digital rights