This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Legal tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.

• Legal tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Learn about civic tech

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Games and gamification

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Government transparency

Boonmee Lab is a design, data, and technology company who will bring meaningful innovation with excellence to the society.

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

We create Sustainable Social Impact with Technology

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Build something

Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• cities

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers

• Hardware
• Regulation
• Trustmarks

an open-source tool that allows individuals and organizations to centralize and manage reports sent by Tella users, including photos, videos and audios

• Digital security and privacy

The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion.

• Ukraine

• Cybersecurity
• Public Private Partnerships

O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding.  Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• cities

• Fellowships

La solución gratuita e intuitiva para que des tus primeros pasos en la gestión de contactos y donantes

• Nonprofit tech
• CRM

A powerful & impactful software that helps manage volunteers and their impact. Signup for a Demo

• Manage volunteers

A state-of-the-art, white-labeled, job marketplace solution for governments and nonprofits. Visit Commons.Jobs

• Job board software

Peer 2 Peer fundraiser for individuals, teams & supporters

• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Comprometidos con los asuntos públicos, trabajamos en el Desarrollo y Aplicación de herramientas para sociedades más democráticas, participativas e inclusivas.

• rural

• Citizen Engagement

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer networks

Long-running progressive digital organizing group based in the US

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

We are Bingwa Civic Tech Lab, a youth-led initiative based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting technically the community and civil society organisations through co-creative and collaborative processes to implement digital solutions informing decision makers and different stakeholders to improve social services

• trainings
• Gender Equality

• Hubs

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities
• United Nations

• Playbooks and design principles
• Policy

Online community tracking earthquakes with Raspberry Shakes: Professional grade seismograph and infrasound monitors that anyone can use to record and visualize both natural and human activity.

• earthquakes
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

• cities

• Govtech
• Design

eGovlab is the Stockholm University Centre for Excellence in e-Governance Studies focused on driving European and International research collaboration for research and development in the area of IT in the Public Sector.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• cities
• Gender Equality

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Interoperable Europe is the initiative of the European Commission for a reinforced public sector interoperability policy. The Interoperable Europe Act proposes a strategic interoperability cooperation mechanism across the European Union.

• Govtech
• Government Interoperability

FathomNet is an open-source image database for understanding our ocean and its inhabitants

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Environmental data

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Accelerators

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.

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