Budget explorer for the Municipality of Zugló's 2019 budget built by K-Monitor

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• People Powered

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A startup — and community — building trustworthy and open-source AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Manage volunteers

A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

• reports

• Reports
• Fieldwide resources

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Dissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.

• Artistic interventions

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain

• courses

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Public Interest Tech

Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Incubators

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Hubs
• Communicating with the people

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Roundtables

With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.

• immigration
• refugees

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports
• Digital transformation

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Deliberation

In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Books

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Reports
• Fieldwide resources

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact.

• Academia
• Data science for social good
• Academic programs

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

• preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

PolicyLab Africa uses Human centered design to imagine sustainable futures.

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Out in Tech is the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Out in Tech Digital Corps provides web services to LGBTQ+ activists and social entrepreneurs around the world.

• LGBTQI
• Wordpress

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

We provide resources to reimagine project-restricted giving

• Get funding
• Playbooks and design principles
• Foundation initiatives

A report: How can stories help us change systems?

• reports

• Media
• Narrative tech

A series of articles interrogating the concept of rigor in the context of impact evaluation in our work, by Keira Lowther

• Evaluate impact
• Fieldwide resources

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Digital Rights Job Board features diverse opportunities from organizations, grassroots networks, companies and other types of entities from 130+ countries working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and social justice

• Find a job or hire someone
• Digital rights
• Job boards

Aim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

While the Open Treasury portal hosts all federal daily treasury reports, GOVSPEND.NG, a platform powered by BudgIT, simplifies the treasury report for citizens and Civil Society Organizations to access, monitor and understand federal government’s real time expenditure.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Budget explorers

The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Founded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping
• Civic maps

A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs

• Apple
• sustainability

• Media
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Investigative journalism tech

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Design

The main objective of this action is to develop a European network of actors focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice focused approach.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech