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

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

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

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

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

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

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

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

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

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
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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
• Engagement tech

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Mobilizing the public to promote freedom

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

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

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

a platform for exploration and visualization of graph-based data

• The Tech
• Civic data

Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

DKAN comes out-of-the-box with comprehensive public-facing engagement and administrative site management tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

• state

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Gifts that give Back

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The alumni Twitter account for a 2-year graduate program in Tisch, NYU to explore the creative uses of communication technologies

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Decisions made easy.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Build something

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Copcast is an open-source project that can turn any Android phone into a body-worn camera system for law enforcement, providing a more cost-effective and accessible solution for law enforcement officers around the world.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Open justice

The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

OParl. Mehr Transparenz für Ihre Kommune.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The smart governance platform for cities and towns. Wir ermöglichen Entscheidungsträgern in Städten und Gemeinden, datengetrieben zu steuern.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

MindMixer acts as a virtual town-hall allowing community planning to happen online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

• apps
• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

This is an open document for developing a media analysis toolkit.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis