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Apps for Ghent

Apps for Ghent

Ghent, Belgium

Welkom op Apps For Ghent, de site voor de Gentse Open Data community

Benefit Kitchen

Benefit Kitchen

150 Court St Brooklyn, NY 11201

Every year 103 million Americans leave $80 billion in benefits unclaimed. We help inform consumers so they receive the benefits they’ve earned.

Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab

Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab

Washington, DC

The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

The Case Foundation

The Case Foundation

Learn more about the @casefoundation, where they invest in people & ideas that will change the world.

Bani Publici

Bani Publici

Romania 🇷🇴

Vrei să știi de câți bani dispune județul tău? Aici vei găsi date despre bugetele locale din 2007 și vei putea face comparații între județe și domeniile în care s-au cheltuit bani.

Covid19cz.cz – Data proti Covid

Covid19cz.cz – Data proti Covid

COVID19CZ je společná aktivita několika českých technologických firem a IT nadšenců zaměřená na pomoc v boji s nákazou COVID-19.

ATX political hackathon

ATX political hackathon

Our goal is to enable progressive candidates to win elected office. We’ll come up with creative solutions to overcome common problems faced by candidates, campaigns, community organizers, and voters.

Izwi lami

Izwi lami

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

Health-e News is South Africa’s award-winning television and print health news service that has been producing news and in-depth analysis for national media since 1999

US open data legislation

US open data legislation

United States of America 🇺🇸

The U.S. Open Data Toolkit is a digital resource that helps federal policymakers better understand and harness the strategic value of open data.

Democratic Society

Democratic Society

15-17 Middle Street, Brighton BN1 1AL, England, UK

Connecting people and power

Civic Hall

Civic Hall

118 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

The home for civic tech in New York City

City Bureau Civic Reporting Residency

City Bureau Civic Reporting Residency

6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

A 10-week program for journalists of all levels to learn our community-centered reporting process while covering the South and West Sides

PeoplesHub.org

PeoplesHub.org

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

synAthina

synAthina

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

Engagement platform by the City of Athens

CityLab

CityLab

Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.

Loomio

Loomio

Wellington, New Zealand

Loomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action

Open Contracting Partnership

Open Contracting Partnership

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

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

Data for Good group

Data for Good group

Canada 🇨🇦

We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

OpenSTL

OpenSTL

St Louis, MO

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

Open Government Data Steiermark

Open Government Data Steiermark

Steiermark, Austria

Land Steiermark - Open Government Data

Justice Innovation Startup Lab

Justice Innovation Startup Lab

University of Southern California LA

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

Soft robotic

Soft robotic

The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

Climate Innovation Center Kenya

Climate Innovation Center Kenya

Nairobi

offers incubation, capacity building and financing options to new, small and medium business ventures and Kenyan entrepreneurs that are developing innovations to address the challenges of climate change.

Legal Swipe

Legal Swipe

Toronto

Legalswipe educates users about their legal rights through a series of menus and cues.

CountyTrak Index

CountyTrak Index

Kenya 🇰🇪

CountryTrak Index provides a baseline from which other evaluation tools can be developed and more importantly provides the county governments and other interested stakeholders with robust statistics by ward on the perception of county residents over county governments’ performance of the devolved functions.

Vote62

Vote62

Bangkok, Thailand

Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

Taproot

Taproot

Taproot Foundation connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers through pro bono service.

Hack Your Future

Hack Your Future

BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Free 7 month program turns refugee talent into tech professionals. 85% find jobs within 6 months after graduation.

Infomocracy

Infomocracy

Infomocracy by Malka Older | Tor.com Publishing

Voice of Kibera

Voice of Kibera

Kenya 🇰🇪

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 250+ international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

Apolitical 100 digital government

Apolitical 100 digital government

PUBLIC Hall 1 Horse Guards Avenue London, United Kingdom SW1A 2EP

We’re excited to share our second annual list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.

Google Digital News Initiative

Google Digital News Initiative

Europe

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

Data Commons Manifesto

Data Commons Manifesto

Barcelona

It reflects the discussions and proposals of dozens of people and collectives involved in the Digital Democracy and Data Commons participatory process.

RankedVote

RankedVote

RankedVote is the easiest way to create ranked-choice voting contests, elections, and decisions on any device.

Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation

Welcome to the Ford Foundation. We envision a just, fair, and peaceful world with opportunity for all

Fact-Checkers Legal Support Initiative

Fact-Checkers Legal Support Initiative

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

BERN app

BERN app

Burlington, VT

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

Hello Lampost

Hello Lampost

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

Ma3Route

Ma3Route

Kenya 🇰🇪

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports

InBloom

InBloom

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

Local Circles

Local Circles

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

SMS reminders from the Office of Court Administration

SMS reminders from the Office of Court Administration

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

Wikimedia Germany

Wikimedia Germany

Wikimedia Deutschland

Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.

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