Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Du hast Ideen, die unser Land in eine bessere, gerechte Zukunft führen. Mutig und klar. Mit Lust auf morgen?

• Debate

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Connectivity

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation [Joel Gurin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Baobab Connect provides a set of tools to refer and track cases, manage remote teams and measure impact in the pursuit of access to justice. Baobab Connect allows organizations to:Track referrals - referrals are a crucial component of access to justice.. Keep track of all inbound and outbound cases and keep your clients in the loop; Report and Measure - Reports are one of those things we just can’t get away from. Baobab Connect makes it easy to measure the work being done by your team; Maintain Security & Privacy - Using personal emails and IM clients means your clients confidentiality is at risk. Using a centralized system means better control over privileged data.

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

Froide is a Freedom Of Information Portal using Django 3.2 on Python 3.8+. It is used by the German and the Austrian FOI site, but it is fully internationalized and written in English.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

With Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

The aim of the tool is to help Lithuanian citizens to understand how courts and judges work in their country. Transparency International chapter

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Nava is a public benefit corporation creating software to improve how our government serves people.

• Civic and social impact companies

Accessible web and mobile software for NGOs and development agencies

• Social impact design firms

Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.

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

A financial inclusion platform targeted at smallholder farmers. Makes it easy for institutions to on-lend and disburse funds to a large network of smallholder farmers. Gives access to trustworthy low risk farmers.

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Hier findest du eine Übersicht aller Wahllokale: Wähle deine Stadt aus, gib deine Adresse ein und finde dein Wahllokal in wenigen Sekunden.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Free, practical resources for election officials

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

Refreshingly easy-to-use fundraising software and tools for nonprofits looking for a complete fundraising solution to support their mission. Cultivate donor relationships and generate new supporters, while saving time and raising more money. Network for Good makes fundraising simple for you.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential. OpenGov is the first complete cloud solution for public sector budgeting, operational performance, and citizen engagement.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A metadata description standard for public software

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Format for exchanging static public transit information.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Master Directory for OpenMapKit

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A resource from Joinup

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Open County Initiative is a project within the Devolution Programme implemented by Open Institute together with the Council of Governors. The Programmes broad objective is to work with county governments towards overcoming the challenges they face in actualizing their ambitions for good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability through three segments - Public Participation, Building Public Participation for accountability and innovating and building capacity

An online meeting place to discuss how to use civic technology to improve peoples' lives.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Advertising