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Medialab Prado

Medialab Prado

Plaza de las Letras. Calle Alameda 15, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Medialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.

Tactical Tech

Tactical Tech

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

The Digital First Aid Kit

The Digital First Aid Kit

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks

We're a global technology consultancy. We help you invent what's next, and bring it to life with technology. In weeks, not years.

Clear my record

Clear my record

San Francisco

Clear My Record is a free, non-profit service to help you dismiss or reduce old convictions on your criminal record.

Screendoor

Screendoor

Oakland, California

Review submissions together.

Health Enterprise Fund

Health Enterprise Fund

The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund was created with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and is funded by USAID and DFID. It is implemented by the USAID-funded SHOPS project, and aims to uncover innovative and replicable solutions that address critical health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.

Declarator Russia

Declarator Russia

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

Декларатор — это постоянно пополняемая база деклараций о доходах и имуществе публичных должностных лиц: депутатов, чиновников, судей, представителей региональной и муниципальной власти, иных органов, госкорпораций и госкомпанией

Perimeter

Perimeter

Bay Area, California

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

IndiaSpend

IndiaSpend

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

award-winning investigative journalism

Design Gigs for Good

Design Gigs for Good

United States of America 🇺🇸

Design Gigs for Good is a free community-driven resource to help more people use the tools of design to create positive social change.

Community Based Monitoring

Community Based Monitoring

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

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view

Colombia Check

Colombia Check

Colombia 🇨🇴

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

Displacement Alert

Displacement Alert

50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement

Open Culture Foundation

Open Culture Foundation

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Open source, open data, and open government.

OpenAQ

OpenAQ

1226 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

People's Assembly

People's Assembly

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

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

MapAction

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

Open Twin Cities

Open Twin Cities

St. Paul, MN

A group for civic hackers, innovative government employees, and concerned citizens for the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) metro area

AuroraSaurus

AuroraSaurus

New Mexico

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

DataKind Data Dives

DataKind Data Dives

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.

Code for NL

Code for NL

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

Civicwise

Civicwise

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

Fine Fixer

Fine Fixer

Australia 🇦🇺

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

Automating NYC

Automating NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

Data Lanterns

Data Lanterns

MIT Media Lab

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

How's my Driving NYC

How's my Driving NYC

NYC Department of Finance - Financial Business Center, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY

Search New York City parking & camera violations

OpenBudget.ro

OpenBudget.ro

Romania 🇷🇴

Open Budget este o platformă care îţi permite să vizualizezi bugetul statului român şi să modifici felul in care sunt alocate fondurile publice.

Good Call NYC

Good Call NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

Subnational Citizen Engagement

Subnational Citizen Engagement

Kenya 🇰🇪

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

Holopolis HiFi

Holopolis HiFi

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

Meet the Kiosks event

Meet the Kiosks event

6 Norfolk St, Boston, MA 02124

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

Majlesnama

Majlesnama

Tehran

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Black Lives Matter Ways to help Carrd

Black Lives Matter Ways to help Carrd

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

Camino

Camino

San Mateo, California

We are a Silicon Valley-based technology company that partners with cities to rethink the permitting and development process.

Count Love

Count Love

Cambridge, MA

Protests for a kinder world.

the Centre For Innovation & Technology

the Centre For Innovation & Technology

45 Moffat Avenue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

Citi Foundation

Citi Foundation

Investing in Our Communities Citi and the Citi Foundation are working in new ways to help build equitable and resilient communities

NYC Momentum organizer training

NYC Momentum organizer training

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

Data Murals

Data Murals

MIT Media Lab

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

FOIA Machine

FOIA Machine

United States of America 🇺🇸

Our simple tool allows anyone to generate a public records request with all the necessary legal boilerplate, all for free.

Open By-laws South Africa

Open By-laws South Africa

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

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

Meetup's map of 181 civic hacking Meetups

Meetup's map of 181 civic hacking Meetups

Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

Smart Cities Expo

Smart Cities Expo

Barcelona

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

GovLab Arnsberg

GovLab Arnsberg

Seibertzstraße 1, 59821, Arnsberg, Germany

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

Journalism Funders Forum and Journalism Funders Confidential

Journalism Funders Forum and Journalism Funders Confidential

Oranjeplein 106 Maastricht, Netherlands

European Foundations And Journalists Working Together To Ensure More Effective And Impactful Funding Of Journalism.

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