Civic Tech Field Guide

The Public Impact Observatory

10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva Switzerland

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

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BiciDatos

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Monitoreo ciudadano de datos sobre ciclismo urbano en Cochabamba

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 and aims to improve people's lives through art, charity, science and education.

Gov.uk Verify

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

GDS is leading the digital transformation of the UK government.

Fundación Karisma

Transversal 22a #59-44, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

Soliguide

France

a user-friendly platform that centralizes data about all public services and facilities that can cater to the needs of vulnerable citizens, such as where to eat, to shower, to find shelter or get social welfare

homelessness

Enforcement Proceedings Map

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

The interactive map of over-indebtedness in the Czech Republic based on real data from Central register of enforcement proceedings (financial executions)

debt

Code for America Brigade Organizer's Playbook

Open Google Doc guide

Identication for Development

To enable all people to exercise their rights and access services, ID4D helps countries realize the transformational potential of inclusive, robust, and responsible digital identification systems.

Technical.ly

Technical.ly grows local technology communities by connecting organizations and people through news, events and services.

WEF National Digital Governance Playbook

The “Digital Policy Playbook 2017” is designed to help leaders understand the complex dynamics and difficult decisions they will face in managing their transition into the digital domain

Boston's Smart Streets page

Boston, MA

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

Simply Secure Knowledge Base

Simply Secure supports practitioners in putting people at the center of trustworthy technology.

Podemos

Madrid (Spain)

Contigo, construimos el cambio político en nuestro país. Sí se puede. ¡Podemos!

Instituții Publice

Romania

Navighează profilele celor 14.000+ instituții publice și evaluează eficiența, profesionalismul și integritatea acestora din prisma propriei experiențe.

Digital Undivided

50 Hurt Plaza Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

BLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

Innocentive

265 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA

Explore the world. Change it today.

Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview

Portland, OR

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

Open Respirator

This is an open source hardware project to allow makers and the public to assemble mechanical respirators (aka. Ventilators, breathing machines) and/or intubation kits that could be used by medical professionals.

Code for Newark

Newark, NJ

We are Code for Newark, the local Newark brigade of Code for America. We are a diverse group of newbies, pros, developers, coders, data geeks, and designers who are interested in making ourselves and our world a better place.

Holopolis bot

Holopolis bot allows always available participation. It packages vTaiwan as a contact you can add friend with and share your opinions on cases under discussion.

WindyGrid

Chicago, IL

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

Xcential

841 2nd Street, Encinitas, CA 92024, USA

Xcential provides SaaS-based solutions enable legislatures and regulatory to more efficiently create/publish legislation and regulations.

Internet Geographies

Oxford, UK

This project maps and measures the geographies of information on the Internet.

GroupServer

KOITOTO adalah sebuah platform bandar togel online terbesar di Indonesia yang menawarkan berbagai layanan judi togel online terpercaya. Dengan pengalaman bertahun-tahun dalam industri ini.

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Introducing The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Revolutionizing Prosthetics

11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, USA

Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.

Je m'engage

Hôtel de Ville, Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, Paris, France

How to get engaged in Paris

Samurai Labs

Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence

harassment

Govstart

Les Halles Civiques Belleville, Rue Piat, Paris, France

Gov tech accelerator

The 2019 Brigade Network Census

San Francisco

Ideas and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else.

First Branch Forecast

Washington, DC

How Congress learns about Congress

Audiencias Interativas

Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil

livestreams video from the committee debates in Brasilia, and includes a chat window designed to let citizens ask questions, vote on others' questions, and generally chat about the proceedings with other viewers

Federalist

Washington, DC

We’ve taken the work out of launching a compliant federal website.

E-court

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

E-Court specialises in private and civil online dispute resolution. It aims to provide administrative justice at low costs.

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

New York City

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

cities

PublicInput.com

16 West Martin Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

PublicInput.com connects organizations with the communities they serve.

Shine Your Eye

Nigeria

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

Budget Allocator

Participatory budgeting software for local government

Participatory budgeting

Neighborland

Boulder, CO

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

housing

Behavior Change for Good Initiative

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, USA

StepUp is a free habit building, science-based workout program developed by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. The program is being launched in partnership with 24 Hour Fitness.

Blokable

Southeast Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA, USA

We partner with market rate and not for profit land developers and service providers to make housing happen. Building at lower cost, higher quality, and in less time, we create real estate equity.

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, by Astra Taylor

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

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Nuru

Kenya

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.