The purpose of this guide is to standardise accessibility features and ensure accessibility compliance across Code for Africa’s projects. Please feel free to copy and adapt it for your organisation.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Focuses on the topics of “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”

• Funders & donors

Just enter the website URL into the tool and it will let you know the accessibility issues it finds.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• User research
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research groups

Lutece is an open source platform developed by the City of Paris to help you develop digital solutions.

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Bureaucracy tech

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

The Design System makes it easy for state digital teams to build accessible, consistent, and performant services and products to meet Californians’ needs.

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Side by Side is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Solidarity networks

Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.

• guides

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

E-scooter company

• mobility

• Hardware

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

• books
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Books

Reporting management software for municipal technical services

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

A guide to digital accessibility created by US Digital Services

• guides

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

• Quality education

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

Climate Emergency UK assessed plans according to 28 questions across nine sections, based on the expert-approved checklist for Council Action Plans.

• Climate action
• local

• Report cards and audits

This year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!

• Meet the others
• Conferences

This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.

• guides
• urban planning

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

• food
• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Nonprofit tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Campaigners/activists, fundraisers, media experts, creatives, digital specialists, freelancers, and more all come together on the Campaigning Forum (ECF) community discussion list.

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

The largest membership organization of professional planners and planning resources available. Your leading authority on making great communities happen!

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We are a strategic discovery, design and development lab working to transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Social impact design firms

Our resource for the types of voting equipment we use to cast — and count — our votes by type and vendor.

• Voting and elections
• Hardware
• Election administration

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We make one-year, $50,000 investments in faculty from across the university who want to conceptualize new impact labs through participation in our year-long Impact Lab Design Fellowship.

• Fellowships
• Design

Guide to solutions journalism for editors

• Solutions journalism

60 questions about solutions journalism in pandemic times

• Solutions journalism

Solutions journalism case study collection and engagement guide

• Solutions journalism

The Audit Law Database describes state laws, regulations and procedures for post-election audits in states across the country.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support

• Funders & donors
• Academia

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence

Verified Voting’s mission is to strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in elections.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Fomentar ciudadanos activos y mejor informados mediante la formación y estímulo a los periodistas, y la promoción del uso ético y creativo del poder de contar y compartir historias, inspirados en el legado de Gabriel García Márquez y su método de taller.

• Media
• Solutions journalism

Solutions Journalism Toolbox – Health Guide

• Good health and well-being

• Solutions journalism

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• cities

• Design

Compare and visualize voting count data across many levels of US elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Crypto-based crowdfunding where the group votes on funding proposals and distributes millions in funding accordingly

• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Ocean Protection, Decentralized

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life below water

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

SPE is developing the first-ever Gold Standard certified carbon credit NFTs, a green blockchain entirely powered by renewable energy, and a carbon credit exchange that will use $SPE as the exclusive currency.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain
• NFTs
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Deliberation

Spark Eco will invest in solar energy projects, fund non-profits working on solar projects in developing communities, and support land preservation efforts.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

• Communicating with the government
• Campaign tools
• Open asks

We help government teams gather & analyze inclusive data to achieve equitable outcomes. Get actionable insights faster with our cloud-based solution.

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Data visualization

A nonpartisan group of businesses working together to build a future where everyone participates in shaping our country.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Justice tech
• Legal tech
• Hardware