SpeakEasy democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use targeted direct mail to communicate with voters. Instead of hiring a consultant to write your content and produce custom art for every mailer, SpeakEasy allows campaigns to use pre-built design templates and their own photography and text to produce their own direct mail.

• Organize campaigns

Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Visible Polls is a platform that curates election data across Africa. With the huge challenge faced in finding accurate and easily accessible data regarding elections on the continent, Visible Polls is built to democratize this data, freeing it from the almost always hard to process document formats.

Innovative open source projects, made by incredibly motivated students, coaches & organisations.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

We help women run for office—and win.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Answering the Call, a leadership development experience designed to help service alumni explore their interest in potentially seeking political office.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Harness the power of your social data.

• Organize campaigns
• Media and social media analysis

To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

PredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.

• crime

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Collaborating with progressive organizations and Democratic campaigns around the US to measure & increase the impact of their programs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Budget explorers

A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

LawRato is an online platform which allows individuals and businesses to find lawyers and receive free legalinformation online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Mzalendo is a non-partisan entity that keeps an eye on Kenyan Parliament with a mission to facilitate public participation in Parliamentary processes through Information Sharing, Research and Networking.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

File, track, and share public records requests.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

An interactive map lets readers explore the 2016 election in new detail.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

連結全球公民科技社群。｜Connect global civic tech communities.

• The People
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• News and blogs

Inclusion for allowing citizens with hearing impairment to interact with public services and institutions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

At Echo&Co, we don’t just sprinkle digital technology on top of social missions. As a digital practice, we pay attention to users and learn how they want to engage. Armed with that knowledge, we help our clients create user experiences that strengthen organizations, spur citizen engagement, improve communities, and make governments more effective.

• Civic and social impact companies

Championing the ethical use of technology

• podcasts

• The People
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• Meet the others

Philadelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

LE LAB’ESS, PREMIER INCUBATEUR TUNISIEN DE PROJETS À IMPACT SOCIAL ET ENVIRONNEMENTAL

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• Build something
• Incubators

Code for All Global Summit

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Police Data Initiative promotes the use of open data to encourage joint problem solving, innovation, enhanced understanding, and accountability between communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them.

• policing
• racial equity
• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Report transportation hazards and dangerous traffic behaviors in our community

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The South Australian open data toolkit, contains resources to help agencies release open data. The resources can be tailored to suit your requirements.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Online Mediation Center is a pilot project at the National Law School in Bangalore, and provides online tools to address consumer grievances.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

rAInbow is a smart companion for domestic abuse victims, people in difficult or abusive, controlling situations and unhealthy relationships. The chatbot uses artificial intelligence and storytelling (platform provides the users with personalised, immersive stories of characters who may have had similar experiences) to help victims of domestic violence find support through prevention, intervention and access to resources. The platform is hoping to provide South African domestic abuse victims with a safe space to speak out about their situations. Since its launch in November 2018, 300,000 conversations have been started on rAInbow

• Organize campaigns
• Manifestos

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Learn about civic tech

NationalMap is an online map-based tool to allow easy access to spatial data from Australian government agencies.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

• place-based

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The list contains relevant articles for anyone interested in understanding the space of technological solutions to societal, governmental, and society-government interface problems.

• Learn about civic tech
• Reading lists

We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Filterable map view of NYC's participatory budgeting projects across the city

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• Mapping

ControlShift is a set of web tools that helps your organization build community, leadership, and real power among your members.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

We developed the Community Maturity Model™ (CMM) to help organizations understand, plan for and assess the performance of community and social business initiatives.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Measure air quality yourself

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Find below the latest answers from elected officials who have agreed to be publicly questioned by their fellow citizens.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Communicating with the government

Code for America's Community Fellowship program pairs local Brigade talent with government to improve services for vulnerable people they serve.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

This is a blog about how the civic tech and accountability field measures its work and its impact.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Federal VR and AR Program is a collaborative hub for the research and refinement of VR and AR business cases and pilot programs across government.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)