DemocracyLab Optimizing Municipal Infrastructure with Smart City Planning Smart City Planning is creating a transparent, open source platform that puts the power to make data-driven decisions back into the hands of the community.
Education Supporting Diversity in the Health Sciences There’s a lack of diversity in the American healthcare field. Northwest Health Career Path (NWHCP) believes a healthcare workforce should reflect its community and works to support diversity in healthcare.
Virtual Hackathon 2nd Virtual St. Hack-trick’s Day Accelerates Civic Innovation Now a full year into virtual hackathons, we can see that the pandemic accelerated us in the direction we wanted to go, but weren’t quite brave enough to leap toward - events with no geographic bounds.
Civic Tech Undebates: Making Democracy More Accessible Undebates is a way for voters to quickly get to know candidates and for candidates to gain exposure to voters – for free! It can be deployed for elections all across the country.
Tech For Good iSeaTree Nurtures Community Scientists iSeaTree used skilled volunteers from DemocracyLab to build an app that engages a community of data-informed youth in protecting trees.
Tech For Good How Amazon Hacked for Good Amazon's Self Service Performance Ads team strengthened their culture and boosted employee enthusiasm through a virtual tech-for-good hackathon.
Tech For Good The Mayo App - Creating Purposeful, Supportive, In-Person relationships beyond Screens Learn now about the app helping people fight isolation. Want someone to sing to you from their balcony? You want Mayo.
Tech For Good Every Voice Engaged: Transforming Lives, Communities, Government with Games, Software, and Collaboration Every Voice Engaged helps governments to meet citizens’ needs and help citizens engage with their Government.
Record Sponge Record Sponge Cleans Records, Changes Lives Record Sponge provides Oregon citizens with arrest records fast and free eligibility analysis that can lead to record expungements.
Tech For Good Grow your Tech for Good Project Teams with the "Groups" Feature on DemocracyLab! The “Groups” feature lists the specific projects associated with a Tech for Good organization on a branded landing page that is easy to update and maintain. DemocracyLab makes it easy for volunteers to dig deep into a project before reaching out to project leaders to start a conversation.
National Day of Civic Hacking 2020 National Day of Civic Hacking – NW Project Workday The National Day of Civic Hacking brought together civic leaders, public servants, designers, coders and engaged citizens to partner with local governments and community groups to tackle some of our toughest challenges.
Community Engagement PeaceTrees Vietnam Works to Heal the Wounds of War Founded in 1995, PeaceTrees Vietnam seeks to heal landscape and culture scars incurred during the Vietnam War. With over 10,000 people (20% of them children) killed or maimed by
Tech For Good Textio Engages Employees to Accelerate Civic Innovation Textio’s experiment with an internal tech-for-good Explorathon is paying off for the projects they selected and in employee enthusiasm.
Civic Tech Benefits of Skilled Volunteering Nonprofits today are stretched thin due to lack of resources and funding. Their challenges are growing and they’re constantly in need of expertise that may not be available within their own organizations.
Civic Tech The Untapped Potential of Civic Technology “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” -Albert Einstein
