Civic Tech Field Guide

Internet Universality Indicators (ROAM-X)

UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

human rights

Code for Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

We are a community of volunteers who develop open-source projects as a Code for America Brigade by focusing on open government, open data, great design, and social good in Baltimore.

Citybase

30 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

CityBase is a gov tech platform that connects cities and citizens to make government more accessible and efficient.

Gravyty Guide

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

youth

Represent by Pro Publica

155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA

See what your representatives in Congress say and do.

Democratic Innovation in Megacities

NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) awards

Lexington, KY, USA

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

state

Facebook Civic Engagement team

Palo Alto

A team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting

Facebook

Data.NY.gov

Albany, NY

Browse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers’ markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.

Bonayo

San Francisco

Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.

London Plus

London

Championing London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections

Voterly

La Mesa, California, USA

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

US Election 2020

Appropriate technology movement

Bonn, Germany

a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.

Predecessors

Maryland Law HelpApp

Maryland

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

apps

Apolitical's Government Innovation Lab Directory

London

Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch

Code for America

San Francisco

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design

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 (the)

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

partisan

Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

Paris

Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.

Cobi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.

Smiile

Rejoignez votre réseau de voisinage pour collaborer, partager, recycler, covoiturer, acheter groupé, animer sa vie de quartier et réaliser des économies avec vos voisins !

How Cities Can Improve Their Procurement of Goods and Services

Book chapter by Jeffrey Liebman and Hanna Azemati

Le Drenche

Paris

Confronting opposite opinions to fight filter bubbles

NonProfit Tech for Good

Tucson, Arizona

A Fundraising & Social Media Blog for Nonprofits

TRACKBACK

BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA

BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation

Virtual Singapore

Singapore

Digital twin - Virtual Singapore is a 3D digital replica of Singapore built on topographical as well as real-time, dynamic data.

cities

Open Hardware Observatory

Brussels, Belgium

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

Rumbleup

RumbleUp is an easy yet powerful P2P texting platform trusted by hundreds of campaigns and organizations to quickly engage any size audience via SMS or MMS

Oradea City Report

Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).