In-person meetings
Conferences, meetups, physical venues, and other homes for community in civic tech.
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Political Communication Summit
The Political Communication Summit is where Europe’s leading voices in political messaging, public affairs, and institutional communications come together.
11th Japan Mini-Publics Research Forum | 第11回 日本ミニ・パブリックス研究フォーラム (Narashino, Japan
無作為に選ばれた市民が公共的な課題について熟議し、その成果を政策形成や更なる議論につなげるミニ・パブリックス（無作為選出型の市民会議）は、近年、世界各地で大きな広がりを見せています。日本でも、自治体や...
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TransformGov Talks
We provide a space to meet for people who care about making government work better, whether they're inside or outside the public sector.
Global Democracy Coalition Forum
Each regional forum will bring diverse perspectives to the global conversation on democracy, ensuring that local insights inform international efforts. The discussions will contribute to policy recomm...
CiviCamp
Conference and work sprint for the CiviCRM community
El Canòdrom
El Canòdrom - Ateneo de Innovación Digital y Democrática es un laboratorio ciudadano en torno a las tecnologías y la democracia.
People Powered Convening
Join civil society leaders, public officials, researchers, and funders from around the world to share insights, build skills, and co-create solutions that make democracy work for everyone.
UKGovCamp
UKGovCamp is a free, annual unconference for people who want to make the public sector better.
Urban Tech Summit
The Summit will offer practical insights and examples of how researchers, companies, governments, and communities can continue to drive innovation amid these headwinds—and how urban tech can help citi...
Data Privacy Global Conference
O futuro que queremos agora: profissionais, pesquisadores e tomadores de decisão construindo conexões relevantes e criando caminhos para um ecossistema informacional justo.
NYC PIT Pop Up
The first-ever NYC PIT Pop Up is a temporary, immersive, pop-up event where technology, art, science, and community converge.
Future Force
Future Force is a tech-for-good community and social impact startup accelerator.
Wine & Wotsits
Wine and Wotsits is a regular meetup of campaigners and social activists organised by Alison Goldsworthy and Kate Norgrove.
Athens Democracy Forum
Civic Saturdays
Civic Saturdays are an antidote to this feeling of apathy and despair. Friends and strangers connect around the values and practices of being an active citizen, reckoning with our nation’s creed, buil...
Citizen University
Helping you practice relational, relevant, and sustainable citizenship.
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Numérique en Commun[s]
Numérique en Commun[s] propose de travailler collectivement les conditions de l’émancipation des citoyens et des citoyennes en contexte numérique, à l’échelle locale et européenne.
Tech and Society Summit
First ever tech policy summit in Brussels led entirely by non-profit organisations
Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE)
The HOPE conferences are known for their creativity and diversity, not to mention a whole lot of hacker fun.
OSPOs for Good 2024
Annual symposium celebrating Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs)
European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness
A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.
Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF)
DRIF is an important platform where conversations on digital policy in the Global South are shaped, policy directions debated and partnerships forged for action.
European Partnership for Democracy Annual Conference: Rebooting Democracy (Brussels)
Come and engage with us in discussions and debates on what comes next with over 200 participants from European institutions, European governments, civil society, media and academia.
Open Hardware Summit (OSHWA)
Since 2010, the Open Source Hardware Association, a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity, has hosted the Open Hardware Summit- a comprehensive conference for the open hardware community and the ever chang...
밋앤핵 (Meet and Hack)
밋앤핵은 시빅해커들이 함께 모여 사회 문제를 '해킹'하는 모임입니다
Semana De Inovação
O maior evento de inovação em governo da América Latina
CityCamp.nyc
CityCamp is an unconference with a focus on democracy, civil society, neighbors, government operations, and the intersection between them all.
g0v Taipei Community Hub / NPO HUB 2nd Floor 202
An open and transparently-run community space for the g0v community in Taipei
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS)
The first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art i...
Democracy at a Crossroads: The 2025 Democracy R&D Conference
Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to...
Political Tech Summit
Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.
Digital Leads Network
We’re a growing community of not-for-profit digital leads committed to making the most of digital technology for positive social impact, by sharing best practice and peer-to-peer learning.
Publix
Publix is a new home for everyone who does journalism, shapes public opinion and strengthens democracy.
American Community Survey Data Users Conference
The conference will bring together ACS data users and U.S. Census Bureau staff to share information about key ACS data issues and applications
Open Source Journalism Conference
Consul Conference (Consulcon)
Open Government Partnership Asia and the Pacific
FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Crypto For Good Fund
International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID)
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)
It was conceived in 2007 as an annual gathering to bring together academia, governments, international organisations, civil society, and industry to share the latest insights and experiences in the th...
Connect Hack
The goal of the hackathon: to create new ways to disseminate reliable information, communication and support between communities located both in Russia and abroad
World Movement for Democracy’s Global Assembly
Every two years, the World Movement for Democracy’s Global Assembly brings together hundreds of democracy advocates from around the world to foster new networks for mutual solidarity and support acros...
g0v Civic Tech Project & Community Handbook
Open handbook about g0v and how to form a civic tech community group
Lab Cultural Ciudadano (LABNL)
Somos un espacio público de producción cultural abierta en dónde todas y todos podemos colaborar, experimentar y prototipar proyectos para el bien común.
Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit
The Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit is an in-person mentoring event and workshop to inspire the next-generation of solvers in rural communities.
United Nations World Data Forum
The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable de...
Global DPI Summit
The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt, stands as a premier convening of stakeholders in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem, bringing together representatives from across the glo...
Future House
London's Techno-Optimist Members Club
