Civic Tech Field Guide

Democracy R&D Conference

Magazín o zdraví, kráse, detoxikácii, testosterónu, vypadávanie vlasov, zväčšenie poprsia, peelingu, chudnutie a ďalších témach.

US Web Design System

GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

A design system for the federal government.

Auglinn

Wilmington, DE

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

apps

Gazteparte

Basque Country (Euskadi)

Gazteparte es el primer espacio digital para escuchar la opinión y las propuestas de los jóvenes y trasladarlas a las instituciones públicas.

Newsbank

Providing easy access to the world's largest repository of reliable information

Misinformation Combat Alliance

The Misinformation Combat Alliance is a cross-industry alliance bringing companies, organizations, institutions, industry associations and government entities together to combat misinformation and fake news and create an enlightened and informed society.

Spacetube

Spacetube is a group-to-group chat tool built on top of Matrix, a secure decentralised communication protocol.

Relationality Lab

St Louis, MO

We help people who nurture relationships that drive change prove that their work has impact.

Actionable Steps to Make Technology Work for Democracy

An Interactive Workbook by International Republican Institute

Tech for Forests

In the period between the beginning of 2021 and the middle of 2022, we investigated open-source digital infrastructures used by communities that are under the constant threat of violation of civil and environmental rights.

Cloud Energy

Berlin

Our Machine Learning model for energy measurement in the cloud, for both virtualized and bare metal environments.

Sursiendo

Trabajamos en la defensa de los derechos digitales colectivos para lograr un entorno más abierto y colaborativo

Climate action

Digital rights

Energy ID

Berlin

Energy ID benchmarks open source software for energy, CO2, and Green Software Foundation's SCI metrics using the Green Metrics Tool.

Power Hog

Berlin

Power Hog offers tools for monitoring computer energy consumption, focusing on process analysis, central data collection for optimization, and CO2 data submission.

Open Source Initiative

As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the open source software ecosystem.

MLCommons AI Safety

The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.

green coding;

Berlin

We help companies, goverment bodies and open source communites to understand and optimize the carbon emissions of their digital services

Carbon calculators

FOSS United event grants

Mumbai

Support for FOSS events in India

Open Weights

A definition and license for open source compatible licensing of neural network weights

Eco CI

Berlin

Eco-CI calculates the energy consumption of your CI/CD environments, supporting GitHub and GitLab.

Civic Tech Report 2025

Prague, Czechia

Hardcover book and online platform providing an overview of over 80 solutions from the European civic tech ecosystem

books

CarbonDB

Berlin

CarbonDB streamlines energy and carbon data management for businesses, aiding compliance with European guidelines and promoting sustainability.

Green Metrics Tool

Berlin

The Green Metrics Tool is a holistic framework to measure the energy / CO2 of your application.

Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI)

Nigeria

Using Technology to Empower Rural and urban last mile communities across Nigeria

Jasy Renyhê Ecofeministas

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)

Somos una organización de mujeres que tiene como principal objetivo acompañar los procesos de mujeres indígenas y campesinas para constituir un espacio donde las experiencias femeninas confluyan en actos, espacios, instrumentos de visibilización, y nuevos aprendizajes para enfrentar las estructuras y prácticas patriarcales que nos someten.

Open Source Definition

A long-standing and heavily-cited definition of what it means for a tech project to be "open source"

OpenEnergyBadge

Berlin

The Open Energy Badge displays energy/CO2 costs for GitHub projects, covering test runs, API calls, and more, created by Green Metrics Tool.

Friends of the Earth

London

Friends of the Earth is the UK's biggest grassroots network dedicated to protecting people and planet.

Climate action

Campaign organizations

MARIJÀN Organisation Féministe

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Donner plus de pouvoir aux femmes, aux filles et aux personnes transgenres partout en Haiti.

women

Campaign organizations

Catalyst Fund

The Catalyst Fund was launched in October 2023 to support the burgeoning ecosystem of actors working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice to build cross-territorial strategies and weave thematic threads across movements.

Climate action

Ask Sri

Colombo, Sri Lanka

A chatbot that answers common questions about sexual health, contraception, relationships, human development, sexual behaviour and, society.

The Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka (FPA Sri Lanka)

Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka (FPA Sri Lanka) serves as a non-governmental organization (NGO) that explores innovative and challenging processes of family Planning in Sri Lanka focusing on issues including sexual and reproductive health and welfare.

Dreamspace Academy

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

DreamSpace Academy is a social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges through challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation and impact venture building.

Caught in the Web (CitW)

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Caught in the Web (CitW) is a 26 month initiative supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office United Kingdom where Search for Common Ground, Hashtag Generation, and Centre for Equality and Justice work as a consortium to advance effective responses to gendered online hate speech and cyber sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lanka.

Prathya

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Prathya is an online ecosystem of support for persons affected by OGBV in Sri Lanka developed by the organizations Hashtag Generation and Delete Nothing and was launched in October 2022.

Search for Common Ground

Brussels, Belgium

Since 1982, Search for Common Ground has been building peace, transforming societies, and using innovative tools to end violent conflict around the world.

Digital peacebuilding

Digital Wellbeing Initiative

Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Digital Wellbeing Initiative in Sri Lanka is a project that collaborates with youth, technology professionals, artists, and policymakers to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the digital landscape with skill and intellect and find a balance between the promise of technology and their personal well-being.

The Project AISLE

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Project AISLE is a hate speech monitoring tool in Tamil and Sinhala developed using Artificial Intelligence.

hate speech

Digital Community Stewards Online Course

Brussels, Belgium

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding

Colombo, Sri Lanka

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding is a Search for Common Ground Sri Lanka project to establish a digital learning, networking, mentorship, and professional development platform for youth (ages 18-29) interested in addressing online dangerous hate speech.

Learn to Discern

Global

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.

BridgeBot

Global

Meet BridgeBot, a new chatbot which helps social media users bridge differences and build trust and understanding online.

Media Diversity Institute

London

Media Diversity Institute (MDI) works internationally to promote accurate and nuanced reporting on issues of race, religion, ethnicity, class, disability, gender and sexual identity in media landscapes around the world.

Hashtag Generation

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

Delete Nothing

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Delete Nothing aims to document technology-related gender-based violence in Sri Lanka, particularly but not limited to the experiences of girls, women, and queer and trans people in Sri Lanka.

Get the Trolls Out

Europe

A campaign that harnesses the power of social media to disseminate innovative media outputs and generate dialogue in order to deliver a powerful counter-narrative against diverse forms of hate speech, including antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate, anti-Christian sentiment.