BUILD HIGH-IMPACT PRODUCTS FOR LOW-INCOME AMERICANS

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

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential

OParl. Mehr Transparenz für Ihre Kommune.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Helping make the internet safer and more accessible

• research
• human rights
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Solidarity networks

The smart governance platform for cities and towns. Wir ermöglichen Entscheidungsträgern in Städten und Gemeinden, datengetrieben zu steuern.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

If you’re working on a startup or non-profit that addresses news, the future of work, or improving democracy, we’d love to see you apply.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

A free course sponsored by the Finnish government to demystify AI

• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Digital Woman Uganda is a Civic-tech and Digital Rights Advocacy organization – operating an ICT powered model to extend the literacy and skills of an eco-system economy that the world currently operates in to a woman/ girl child

Business intelligence for the public sector

• Civic and social impact companies

TAFTIE is the European Association of leading national innovation agencies

• The People
• Build something
• Meet the others

Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Awards and prizes

Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Fellowships

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Build something
• Adjacent Fields

Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September

• US Election 2020

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Holidays

Civic Design Lab (CDL) is a civic service design and innovation team within Oakland City Hall that grew out of the Resilient Oakland initiative.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Media Cloud is an open-source platform for media analysis.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

In what is being billed as a

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Open source platform for collaborative decisions and e-democracy applications.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Another open source self-assessment tool, by the Ontario government

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• Digital fabrication
• Hardware

How can today’s public servants use technology and design to deliver high-quality public services and engagement opportunities?

• Courses

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

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

MindMixer acts as a virtual town-hall allowing community planning to happen online.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time.

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

• apps
• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

• Bureaucracy tech

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

This is an open document for developing a media analysis toolkit.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Latvian "civic-initiatives platform ManaBalss.lv (MyVoice), developed and run by an NGO Foundation of Public Participation, MyVoice."

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Engagement tech

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

• cyberwar
• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Tools

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

Theorizing the Web is an inter- & non-disciplinary DIY conference on tech & society. #TtW18 is April 27 & 28 at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Assess Where To Participate

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Debate platform powered by reason

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Mostly fundraising and roles that support fundraising in large organizations, education, foundations.

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

The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

Activists from 15 countries taking on kleptocracy, political violence, technology, and environmental crisis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech