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A product directory of thousands of civic tech products and services, organized by their functions in democracies.

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COVID-19 map

COVID-19 map

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

InternetGovernment.org

The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.

ManaBalss.lv (MyVoice)

Latvian "civic-initiatives platform ManaBalss.lv (MyVoice), developed and run by an NGO Foundation of Public Participation, MyVoice."

Human Rights Data Analysis Group

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

Civic Capital

Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

Ford Foundation Tech Fellow

Ford Foundation Tech Fellow

Ford Foundation Building, East 43rd Street, New York, NY

The Ford Foundation did something unique—it hired technologists and embedded them in its grant-making teams. It was part of a foundation-wide effort to better understand the growing influence of data and technology on social justice issues.

Open Contracting standard

Open Contracting standard

641 S Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20001

Governments around the world spend an estimated US$13 trillion through contracts every year. Yet, contracting information is often unavailable for public scrutiny.

ElectionGuard

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

Fathom

Fathom

Washington, DC

Fathom text analysis has transformed 25M+ open ended responses into actionable insights for leading agencies and brands.

Link NYC

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

EU Datathon

EU Datathon

Brussels

event aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union

Handraiser

Handraiser

Austin, TX

Cutting edge software & mobile apps to help you manage any type of campaign. Turn Voters into Votes.

City Bureau

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

Sama

Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.

Veovo

Veovo

Auckland, New Zealand

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

Het Nieuwe Kiezen

Het Nieuwe Kiezen

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

WAT IS JOUW POLITIEKE SMAAK?

Anti-Monopoly

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.

Calgary's noise-sensing network

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

Vot Corect

Vot Corect

Romania 🇷🇴

Voter assistance portal for Romanians

Architizer

Architizer

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Architizer is how architects find building-products.

Seeing AI

Seeing AI

Redmond, WA

A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

Census Hard to Count Maps

Census Hard to Count Maps

United States of America 🇺🇸

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

Bill To Text

Bill To Text

United States of America 🇺🇸

BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)

360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

Caravan Studios

Caravan Studios

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

Ryecatcher

Ryecatcher

420 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025

RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.

Development Seed Vulnerable Housing pilot

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

Data Justice Conference 2020: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

Pollution Explorers

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

Apolitical digital government atlas

Apolitical digital government atlas

The Conduit, 40 Conduit Street, London W1S 2YQ, England, UK

Chris Ferguson of the UK’s Government Digital Service puts together the best publicly available tools for digital government from around the world.

Neocity

Neocity

France 🇫🇷

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

Resistance Dashboard

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

Rethink Aadhaar

Rethink Aadhaar

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

Impact Management Project

Impact Management Project

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

Centru Civic

Centru Civic

Romania 🇷🇴

Centru Civic este primul centralizator al serviciilor pe care societatea civilă le pune la dispoziția cetățenilor români.

DemocracyEarth

A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.

JobKraftwerk

JobKraftwerk

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

Hey Google, tell me something good

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

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