Local politics is getting less attention in the media, due to budget cuts. Meanwhile Dutch municipalities are getting more responsibilities due to decentralisations. With PoliFLW journalists and other interested parties can quickly follow news from local political parties and politicians.

• local

• Media
• Journalism
• Archives

Žinau, ką renku“ – tai nešališkas politikos stebėsenos tinklas, kuriame dalyvauja jauni žmonės iš įvairių Lietuvos miestų ir miestelių.

• local

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers
• Open asks

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

• local

• Community wifi

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

• local

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.

• local

• Govtech
• Access to information

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

"A complete suite of local authority services for highways, environment and the public realm", wholly owned subsidiary of mySociety

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

LocalGov Drupal is a publicly owned asset that delivers a better digital experience for citizens, improves service outcomes, and saves money.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• State and regional government technology

Our “Bedrock, USA” podcast explored the rise of far-right extremism in two local governments.

• local
• towns

• Govtech
• Podcasts

The first research to take a comprehensive view of what community power looks like and to analyse evidence of the impact of community power.

• local
• reports

• Community-building resources

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Peer networks

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers
• local

• Civic data
• Media
• Civic maps

Este documento fue realizado por el equipo de la Dirección de Datos Abiertos junto con la Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA).

• guides
• local

• Civic data
• Open government data

Stac labs accelerates party, state and local campaigns' analytical and technological capabilities.

• partisan
• local
• state

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.

• waste
• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

How local governments can serve people better through effective communications and digital services.

• local

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Civic literacy

Climate Emergency UK assessed all UK councils on the actions they’ve taken towards net zero.

• Climate action
• local

• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

• local

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.

• local

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Data visualization

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Peer networks

Front Porch Forum is a free community-building service in Vermont.

• local
• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government

The Integrated Technology Platform for Local Government

• city
• local
• towns

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards