We regulate financial services firms and financial markets in the UK

• fintech

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

A service of the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), here to help Illinois tenants facing housing issues

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Bots

Nonprofit newsroom covering California with an AI/data tool to explore state government

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Service delivery
• Access social benefits
• Co-design

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

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

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports
• United States (federal government)

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.

• recidivism

• Civic data
• Open justice
• Data science for social good

Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• city
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• city
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks

We offer family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots for people experiencing homelessness

• homelessness
• social isolation

• Solidarity networks
• Access social benefits
• Resource matching and sharing

Data for Judicial Transparency

• Civic data
• Open justice

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization

This report delves specifically into the limited publication of written decisions by criminal court judges.

• Open justice
• Access to laws
• Judicial opinions

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Open government data

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Books

Villageois 2.0 est une association qui a pour objectif de sensibiliser les citoyens des différentes localités de la Guinée sur les avantages et risques des TIC.

• Citizen Engagement

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open justice
• Trial monitoring

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Watchdogging government

We are a civic tech organization fostering courtroom openness, social justice and citizen engagement in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open justice
• Trial monitoring

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

Maru is a chatbot that helps you tackle online harassment

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• city

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

Find Out Who You Can Vote For

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

Providing Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.

• Participatory democracy

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

• No poverty
• Life on land

Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world

• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Newsletters

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

New America Chicago is a nonpartisan policy innovation lab based at The Chicago Community Trust.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

Datamuse is a collection of websites, mobile apps, and APIs designed to help people create and communicate more effectively.

• Open knowledge

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Government transparency