Civic Tech Field Guide

ISideWith

See which American political parties, candidates, and ballot initiatives match your beliefs based on the 2018 issues that are most important to you.

Rethink Aadhaar listserv

Seattle

A group for people critically following the Aadhaar/UID project in India.

Anatomy of an AI System

An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor

New Media Ventures

San Francisco

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

partisan

Data Zetu Intiaitive

Tanzania, United Republic of (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) 🇹🇿

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

Fakenews.rs

FakeNews Tragač vaš je saveznik u borbi protiv lažnih vesti. Čitajte o najnovijim dezinformacijama i prijavite lažne vesti za dalju analizu.

Crowd Counting Consortium

United States of America 🇺🇸

A public interest project to document crowds and contention in the United States.

Civic Design Tools

A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.

Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things

Massachusetts

In this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.

state

Ki Mit Tud

Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺

Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.

Alaveteli

Apolitical's Future Skills Tracker

Apolitical’s Future Skills Tracker is a quick, easy tool you can use to work out which are your strongest abilities — and which you should focus on for development to future-proof your career.

Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)

Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, 10179 Berlin, Germany

we are what we create together

Grantnav

360Giving, York Way, London, UK

Search, explore and download UK grant data from funders publishing open data to the 360Giving Standard.

Civic Sundays

United States of America 🇺🇸

Progressive election action. Postcarding, phone and text banking, voter registration, canvassing. Every Sunday.

partisan

National University of Singapore Centre for Integrated Building Energy and Sustainability in the Tropics (CiBEST)

Singapore 🇸🇬

Global Americans

A modern take on the traditional think tank, Global Americans provides up-to-date research and analysis on key areas and issues affecting Latin America

Tomorrow Lab

45 East Broadway, NY, New York 10002

An Innovation Studio for Hardware Products

Missing Numbers

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't

Legal Health Check-up

Halton Community Legal Services, Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON, Canada

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

No poverty

Digital Health Lab

San Francisco

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

Civic Leadership Academy at U Chicago

Chicago

The Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.

Spotcrime Open Crime Data Standard (SOCS)

A blog about crime in the US.

Startnext

Startnext ist die größte Crowdfunding-Plattform in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz für Projekte von Gründern, Erfindern und Kreativen. Entdecke neue Ideen oder finanziere dein Projekt!

Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)

Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset

X (Twitter)

Az Glasuvam

„АЗ ГЛАСУВАМ” е специално разработена платформа. С нейна помощ, лесно ще можете да се информирате за всички важни моменти от изборния процес в България.

OpenTrustwire

Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether they are overseas or just down the street.

Princeton Corpus of Political Emails

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

US Election 2020

LittleSis

LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

Secure Messaging? More Like A Secure Mess.

EFF Guide to Messaging

Represent Canada

Canada 🇨🇦

Find the elected officials and electoral districts for any Canadian address or postal code, at all levels of government

Washington D.C.'s FOIA portal

Washington, DC

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

Digital Woman Uganda

Kampala

Digital Woman Uganda empowers women and girls by promoting digital literacy, gender equality, and innovation through training, advocacy, and technological solutions.

Taftie

Gasthuisstraat 34, 4161 CC Heukelum, Netherlands

TAFTIE is the European Association of leading national innovation agencies

Action Button

Los Angeles

Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.

Data for Policy

University College London

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

Route Fifty Navigator Awards 2018

Atlantic Media, New Hampshire Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

Greenpeace Coca Cola

Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

research

Open Internet for Democracy

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

Creative Action Network

San Francisco

Gifts that give Back

Zellerbach Family Foundation

Community Arts is a program of the Zellerbach Family Foundation and a vital part of the foundation’s mission to serve as a catalyst for constructive social change.