Explore, visualise and interact with youth-centered data

• youth

• Data visualization

Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

E-Collecting eID+ Schaffhausen

• Govtech
• Identity

Fellows will work closely with PRU staff to support multiple research projects including statistical data analysis and monitoring the poverty reduction effects of the city’s anti-poverty initiatives.

• No poverty

• The People
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

GoFundMe: The most trusted free online fundraising platform. Start a successful crowdfunding campaign on the site with over $5 Billion Raised. Read our guarantee!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Villageois 2.0 is an association which aims to raise awareness among citizens of Guinea on the advantages and risks of ICTs

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

an action research laboratory

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Degree programs

The European Social Innovation Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all European countries

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

'Find that Charity', developed by David Kane and supported by 360Giving, is a tool for finding data about non-profit organisations.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Open data publishing portals

Is the biggest public repository of Open Data in Colombia, created by the IT Ministry with the goal of fostering collaboration and the development of new applications and visualizations. (Socrata platform)

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Rebuilding Government is a podcast about the people, technology, and missions redefining government. From local officials to government technology founders, we're diving into how people are reinvigorating our public institutions. In collaboration with UNIT Innovations.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The U.S. Digital Registry serves as a resource for agencies, citizens, and developers to confirm the official status of social media and public-facing collaboration accounts, mobile apps, and mobile websites.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Supporting platform co-ops.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

PeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Hack Cleveland, also known as HackCLE, is a group of community leaders who are leveraging technology to unify Clevelanders and those responsible for their public safety

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Code California is an open collaboration between agencies, industry technology partners and civic technologists working to code a more innovative, collaborative and effective government that best serves the people of California.

• Building inside government
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Das CityScienceLab der HafenCity Universität Hamburg erforscht mit PartnerInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft die Veränderung von Städten im Kontext der Digitalisierung

• cities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Our complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Reach Planetizen's massive audience of planners, designers, architects, developers, academics, and other professionals who are working with the built environment.

• urban planning

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

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

Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

The Municipal Barometer is a web-based portal that provides municipalities and people with local level data so municipalities can make informed and resolute decisions to deliver on their mandates

Connecting Expertise to Government

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Other analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.

• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

Through a comprehensive analysis of various ICT projects, this study examines the success and challenges of using technology to protect and restore land rights.

• land
• indigenous

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."

• recidivism
• reports
• criminal justice

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech
• AI Auditing

"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Generative AI

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.

• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Justice tech

The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

• books

• Govtech
• Books
• Public Private Partnerships

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.

• cities
• heat
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Convening internet measurement groups with an established practice of working in the open to collaborate and converge on best practices, methodologies, and complementary approaches for the collecting of data around internet censorship.

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Roundtables

In conjunction with OpenStreetMap, we are creating tools that we hope will enable the mapping community to enjoy a faster & more accurate mapping experience. To this end, we used artificial intelligence to predict features on high-resolution satellite imagery; these features are then populated in our RapiD map editing tool. When combined with global-scale humanitarian efforts, we hope RapiD can help realize our vision of a more connected world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Africa Law Tech Festival is the largest Law and Tech conference in Africa, convening over 2000 delegates from 40+ countries.

• Conferences
• Legal tech

Access street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. Fill in the gaps by capturing coverage yourself.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

We’re building sustainable solutions for collecting, processing, analyzing and displaying aerial data while supporting the communities built around them.

• Mapping tools
• Drones

The African Union Civic Tech Fund supports initiatives, particularly those led by or relevant to youth, that strengthen citizen engagement through the innovative use of data and digital technologies, or, in other words, that can support targeted civic technology solutions.

• Get funding

Clay is a nonprofit team on a mission to make Earth observation as useful and ubiquitous as a Google search. We believe in using open, responsible AI to make Earth observation a force for positive change.

• mining
• forests
• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale disengagement from the system by the public.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

• reports

• Media and social media analysis
• Report cards and audits
• Research tools