Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

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

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

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

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support

• Govtech

New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.

• Organize campaigns
• Bots
• Petitions

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

A global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Talk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

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

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Chicago's weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A list of digital standards used by governments around the world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The original online petition site. 20+ million signatures. Unlike others, we are non-partisan, non-ideological. Just the best tools for your campaign.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A forum for the discussion of subjects related to data journalism. It also acts as a posting board for new developments at NICAR, including seminar announcements and database information.

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• Consul
• experiments

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Mobilizing the public to promote freedom

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Service alerts

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields