Archive of the civic tech manifesto

• Hubs

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Hope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.

• The Tech
• Media
• News to action

Causes.com is the world's largest online campaigning platform. We connect people who support a common cause and empower them to run grassroots campaigns.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

City Innovate Foundation

• Hubs

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

• trainings

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support

• Govtech

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Cameras
• Direct action

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Journalism

Civil is building the new economy for journalism.

• The Tech
• Media
• Blockchain

The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers

• US Election 2020
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Government transparency
• Civic tech catalogs

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

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• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Chicago's weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Community Leaders for Internet Health spotlights internet issues in diverse local community contexts and creates collaboration among local leaders to engage with tools for open campaigning towards Internet Health

a Code for America brigade

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• cities

• The People
• Build something
• Urban planning

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• Consul
• experiments

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Organization dedicated to promoting citizens' assemblies

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Since 1924, The Duke Endowment has worked to help people and strengthen communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds and enriching spirits.

• The People
• Funders & donors
• Get funding