The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

• Digital rights
• Predecessors
• Emerging Tech report orgs

Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.

• racial equity
• human rights

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Fundraising tools

Group leaders set the most important actions of the day, while members use the Amplify app to easily accomplish them and encourage others to do the same.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Education innovation has found a new home - Nairobi! There is so much exciting work being done and we're all learning so much - let's find a way to share and support one another! The purpose of the gr

• Quality education

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Langeloth Foundation supports health and racial equity outcomes in order to foster and sustain safe and healthy communities.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Civic Tech Sweden is a network of people working with technology for the common good and digital tools for community, democracy, and transparency.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Das zentrale Datenportal für Wirtschaft, Kultur, NGO/NPO, Forschung und Zivilgesellschaft. Das Open Data Portal bietet eine Plattform um auf Daten aus den

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Support civic projects with tech

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

I'm Resistbot. Text RESIST to 50409 and I'll help you contact your officials.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Looking to transform public services and influence government? Grab a desk and join the startups and civic servants driving the govtech revolution.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• The People
• Media
• Learn about civic tech

• Watchdogging and transparency

LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

ODI Summit 2023, 7 November. Free and online. Join the global conversation about data and AI. Discover how data impacts technological developments.

• Civic data
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Given the volume of events being organized in the emerging field around Digital Disinformation, we are developing an events calendar to better track the timing and focus of these convenings.

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

Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

WoeLab is a grassroots network of inventors and entrepreneurs who want to build smart city projects or a digital democracy

This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Dialectic.sg: Better debates for a better Singapore. Learn more about and discuss important policies facing us today.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

The Polish constitution, online

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Awards and prizes

The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) requires all government-produced digital products, including websites and applications, to be consistent, modern, and mobile-friendly.

• The People
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Politics for the people, by the people

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Degree programs

The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

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

Innovative open source projects, made by incredibly motivated students, coaches & organisations.

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

Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

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

We help women run for office—and win.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Technology at work for the public

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Get funding

"Honour a financial services or technology organisation for its outstanding contribution to a charitable cause, for example, through funds donated, services offered pro-bono, or a creative volunteer programme"

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Established in 1966, the Fellows Program is a cornerstone of Institute life and the only program of its kind at Harvard University or anywhere else

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

Real science we can do together. Join a #citizenscience project (we feature 2500+).

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic tech catalogs
• Tech for public challenges

Emilia Romagna's Regional law on participation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups