Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings
• Smart Cities and sensors

cVIGIL is an innovative mobile application for citizens to report Model Code of Conduct and Expenditure violations during the elections

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

We have developed the world's first internationally-approved standard for accessible audio navigation.

• Adjacent Fields
• Data schemas and standards
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Data reporting standards for audited government financial statements

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

GovEx at Johns Hopkins successfully helps governments effectively use data in order to make informed decisions on services that improve people’s lives.

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

We partner with market rate and not for profit land developers and service providers to make housing happen. Building at lower cost, higher quality, and in less time, we create real estate equity.

• housing
• real estate

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

The Canadian Digital Service teams up with federal departments and agencies to put people’s needs at the centre of government services.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Angers participatory budget - a Decidim instance

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

• civic features
• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

GenderGap.AFRICA is a tool designed to help users calculate the gender pay gap in any African country. The tool uses Estimated Earned Income data from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2020. The calculator isn’t designed to give breakdowns for each industry: it instead captures the average gender gap across all sectors within a country. Gender Gap here represents the gap between men and women in pay. It is supplemented by Series of data-driven stories on gender gap and gender equality in African countries

Blockchain

• Blockchain
• Internal government tech capacity

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

• human rights

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council is the regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metro Boston.

• The People
• Build something
• State and regional government technology

We have developed a data visualisation app which enables you to upload and visualise exports from both the Tombolo Digital Connector and your commonly used GIS systems online.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

We support entrepreneurs building a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Cityx is a two-day expo organised by Connected Places Catapult taking place at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 13th – 14th November 2019.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital security and privacy

In4Justice is an online dispute resolution service, and provides an alternate dispute resolution mechanism for small claim settlements.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help local government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

At the Digital Transformation Agency, we help government improve digital services to make them simple, clear and fast.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Open data portal of Poznań

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

• Apple

• COVID Media Projects
• COVID

We would like to invite you to the new Code For Tallahassee brigade and the unveiling of our flagship project Roadmaps to the Future (RM2F)

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A tool created to publish FOIA requests in Tunisia, thus putting pressure on the authorities to respond in time and appropriately.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Wakili Mkononi helps individuals in need to find lawyers or law firms.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

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• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Progressive Coders Network is a 501(c)(4) non-partisan progressive community of tech and non-tech activists building open-source tools to empower the grassroots and reduce the influence of big money in politics.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Help out

Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that helps build a democracy that works for everyone and fuels progress on critical issues.

• Civic and social impact companies

A card deck for revolution

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

• Hubs

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

She Should Run is dedicated to dramatically increasing the number of women in public leadership by eliminating barriers to success. Join She Should Run and step up to inspire more women and girls to consider a future run.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

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.

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A través de SeamOS, podremos sentar un voto de opinión sobre las propuestas que se presentan en el Concejo de Bogota.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Evaluate impact

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