Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.

• CTFG partners

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We’re a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.

• Social impact design firms
• Govtech vendors

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

​​The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

Reforesting after wildfires with drones

• sustainability
• forests
• fires

• Drones

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Nonprofit tech
• Games and gamification

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

USAID’s first Digital Strategy charts an agency-wide approach to development in a rapidly evolving digital age.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

by the Alliance for Innovation

• Govtech
• Conferences

Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Media literacy

While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

• surveillance

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Incubators

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good.

• Get funding
• Holidays

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging
• Digital rights

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Campaign organizations

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.

• Civic data
• Awards and prizes
• Open government data

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• Behavioral economics programs
• COVID Engagement Projects

A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Conferences
• Design

Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Open government data

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.

• Ballot information

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Newsletters

Lyft updates its free rides to the polls program with a half-off discount for 2022 US elections, potentially due to belt-tightening

• commercial

• Voting and elections
• Getting to the polls

Our “Bedrock, USA” podcast explored the rise of far-right extremism in two local governments.

• local
• towns

• Govtech
• Podcasts

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.

• reports

• Media
• Fieldwide resources
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) is a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations including BLVD Harambee.

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Connecting Carbon Markets Through Open Data

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain

Data reveals a patchwork of approaches to digital identities across the continent with varying levels of success.

• Govtech
• Identity

Accelerator for America and Honeywell Collaborate to Promote Smart City Growth in Five U.S. Cities

• commercial

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Accelerators

We unite, organise, and mobilise progressive forces around the world. Get Involved We are turning Black Friday into Make Amazon Pay Day

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

The Local Authority is the podcast from LGC and TPXimpact. Each month we will bring together leading figures from within and around local government to discuss one aspect of the sector’s future.

• Govtech
• Podcasts