Daten öffentlich, frei verfügbar und nutzbar zu machen für mehr Transparenz, Innovation und Effizienz — das ist Open Data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A new initiative from the Tech Talent Project and AnitaB.org to bring 10,000 technologists into the public sector across state, local, and federal government by the end of 2021

• Find a job or hire someone
• Recruitment campaigns
• Professional associations

Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking organisation

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging government

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Tech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley

• Decent work and economic growth
• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

NICAR, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, is a program of IRE, founded in 1989 and supported by the Missouri School of Journalism.

• Media
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is an Indian, non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives -- including hundreds of articles on Accessibility.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

For too long, advocacy tools have been fragmented and siloed.

• 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
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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
• Mapping
• Civic maps

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
• Maturity Assessment

Measure air quality yourself

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Designing a more equitable world

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

See if you qualify for support with food, cash & more. Answer a few questions and get help in under 5 minutes.

• Access social benefits

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A collectivized document of mutual aid projects and resources.

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

Technology at work for the public

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Get funding

"Honour a financial services or technology organisation for its outstanding contribution to a charitable cause, for example, through funds donated, services offered pro-bono, or a creative volunteer programme"

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Awards and prizes

Established in 1966, the Fellows Program is a cornerstone of Institute life and the only program of its kind at Harvard University or anywhere else

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

Real science we can do together. Join a #citizenscience project (we feature 2500+).

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Civic tech catalogs

Emilia Romagna's Regional law on participation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Legal Aid Checker provides a guided pathway to information about common legal issues.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

This book explains the transition by tracing the brief and colorful history of the Circuit Riders, a group of activists who sought to lead nonprofits across the digital divide

• Organize campaigns
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Pavilion builds technology that empowers public servants to deliver better, faster public services from a wider and more diverse group of businesses.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

So, what are you crowdfunding for?

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution

• commercial

• Organize campaigns
• Internal communication and coordination

Nonprofit transparency-focused media outlet

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• TICTeC 25

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Access to information

Mozilla Festival (MozFest) brings the world together to leave the internet better than we found it. Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, invites you to our annual interactive festival in London, England. Come shape our best future online.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

CARTO Turns Your Location Data Into Business Outcomes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winners ... Read More

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

the official public purchasing information portal on open procurement in Ukraine

• The Tech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

• immigration

• Needs assessment

The UK’s street fault reporting website (rebranded as FixMyCommunity)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Government Digital Service podcast looks at innovation and digital transformation across the public sector. We’ll interview interesting people both inside and outside government and cover new developments as they happen.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

Canvassing & voter management software

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech