Established in 1993, Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region’s economy and quality of life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государственных средств.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

• housing

• Media
• Expert networks
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects

Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.

• Hubs
• Working groups

Better walking, biking, and transit

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

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Entrepreneurs, sign up for our Abaca platform to get notified when a relevant accelerator opens up

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.

• Roundtables

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The State Decoded parser can either be modified to use bespoke PHP to parse a legal code in its native format, or it can parse a prescribed XML format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Code for Japan Brigade based in Nerima-ku, Tokyo

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We have compiled and organized more detailed information on specific topics to help operationalize recommendations in the guides and provide links to useful articles, examples and existing evaluation reports we found in our research.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Connecting Museums and Communities

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

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data

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

Our Mission is to empower people through inclusive economies by conducting & supporting various academic research & strategic philanthropic investments.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Open-source budget visualization framework

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Uliza Wakili LLP aims to provide low-cost alternative dispute resolution and legal advice to SMEs and startups.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

• harassment
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Working to restore a balanced relationship between people and planet

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• No poverty

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

Build Peace is a conference that brings together practitioners, activists, artists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas.

• peace

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

SmartProcure is a procurement database company for businesses and government agencies.

• Govtech
• Procurement

Explore what the world is searching

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

• fintech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots

• g0v

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Open Cities Accra Project seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project will also involve the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteman and Alajo.

The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

OpenProcurement is an open source e-procurement toolkit.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We help governments deliver great software to the people they serve.

• Bureaucracy tech

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers