award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Design Gigs for Good is a free community-driven resource to help more people use the tools of design to create positive social change.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Huduma Kenya Programme is a Government of Kenya initiative whose aim is to turn around public service delivery by providing efficient and accessible Government services at the convenience of citizens through various integrated service delivery platforms

• Govtech
• Service delivery

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

We are people who care about our community and want to help make it better.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.

• The People
• Build something
• Data science for social good

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

• The People
• Get funding
• Journalism

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

Search New York City parking & camera violations

• mobility

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Open Budget este o platformă care îţi permite să vizualizezi bugetul statului român şi să modifici felul in care sunt alocate fondurile publice.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Deliberation

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

FiscalNote gives you access to the technology that can transform how you manage emerging and persistent issues in your environment.

• Bureaucracy tech

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

We are a Silicon Valley-based technology company that partners with cities to rethink the permitting and development process.

• The Tech
• Govtech

Protests for a kinder world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

A CIVIC TECH COMMUNITY FOR OPEN DATA IN DELAWARE.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

• city
• commercial
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

ProspectSV is a nonprofit cleantech innovation hub driving the adoption of sustainable solutions in advanced mobility, energy and the built environment.

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

European Foundations And Journalists Working Together To Ensure More Effective And Impactful Funding Of Journalism.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

• The Tech
• Games and gamification
• Data governance

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• landlord

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises

• France (national government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

Find news, appeals decisions & best practice for development management & strategic planners on PlanningResource

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

For more than a decade, Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing 3,000+ attendees from around the country and beyond.

• partisan

• The People
• Meet the others
• Organize campaigns

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A secure, decentralized, auditable and open platform for e-voting and vote counting that everybody can trust

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

A youth initiative to increase digital citizenship in local communities

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Tech for Campaigns (TFC) is a community where world class tech talent meets progressive and centrist political campaigns in need of skilled volunteer talent. The promise is not only different political outcomes but the sustained engagement of people concerned with the direction America is going.

• partisan

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Pro bono and volunteer