A Ford Foundation memo sharing lessons learned from public interest law for their work in Public Interest Tech

• Public Interest Tech

TfL's gift shop for transit fans

• Civic tech gifts

PIT-UN (US) university membership list

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Public Interest Tech

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

French event support platform

• Meeting tech

citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

J++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.

• Media
• Data visualization
• Engagement journalism

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

• cities

• Games and gamification

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.

• IBM

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Debate

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

"Democracy as a service" voting app

• apps

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting

• Participatory budgeting
• Civic and social impact companies

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

The City of Warsaw's custom participatory budgeting platform

• Participatory budgeting

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

WhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat and messaging

En Ollin trabajamos por un México en donde impere el estado de derecho, a través de fortalecimiento de nuestras instituciones democráticas y ciudadanos capaces de transformar su realidad.

• Participatory democracy

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Greta Ríos, Directora de Ollin A.C y Ana Patricia Santamaría; Coordinadora de Innovación ciudadana, conversan sobre temas relacionados a la Participación Ciudadana

• Podcasts

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

ŠEST komunikačních kanálů v jednom nástroji.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Issue reporting

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Neighborhood forums

Chinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory budgeting

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia

• apps

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Surveys & polling

Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.

• Mapping tools

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

Map-based surveys with sentiment visualization

• place-based

• Mapping tools
• Surveys & polling

A digital platform for reaching local leaders

• Communicating with the government

A digital platform for the public to message Chinese leaders, operated by People's Daily Online

• Communicating with the government

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

A weekly newsletter about social change initiatives from Slowalk in Seoul

• Newsletters

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

SMSsync is a simple, yet powerful SMS to HTTP sync utility that turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway by sending incoming messages(SMS) to a configured URL (web service).

• apps

• SMS tools

Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).

• extensions

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

• Open source developer networks

Mapping solution for municipalities

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

Korean tech and design firm

• Social impact design firms

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Decentralization
• Civic apps outfits

Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

• Meet the others
• Meeting tech
• Socialize online

Govbase is an open, crowdsourced database of projects and tools in online governance.

• Decentralization
• Civic tech catalogs