Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Hardware

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Working groups

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

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

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Urban planning

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Talk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• partisan

• Conferences

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

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

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
• Emerging tech

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

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Archive of the civic tech manifesto

• Hubs

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

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• 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

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
• Campaign tools

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
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

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
• Digital participation platforms

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
• Story tech
• Cameras

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
• Learn about civic tech
• Journalism

Civil is building the new economy for journalism.

• The Tech
• Media
• Blockchain

The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers

• US Election 2020
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Tech for public challenges

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Learn about civic tech

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Tech for public challenges
• Government transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech