Adjacent Fields - (434)

Although not always explicitly civic tech, these categories are directly adjacent, like tech for other shared, public challenges, or foundational layers that must be present for civic tech to succeed in its goals.

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Lexcare

Lexcare

India

Lexcare is an online forum where people can post legal questions and recieve advice. Users can also find lawyers andconsult them for a fee.

Matras 2

Matras 2 offers a range of services, related to matters such as vehicle registration, immigration and visadocumentation, and loss of documents.

Find a legal aid adviser

Find a legal aid adviser

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Find A Legal Aid Adviser is an online tool through which users can find a legal aid adviser or a family mediator.

Will Star

Will Star facilitates the online creation of a will. Upon completion, users can download, print and sign the document.

SOAP Security for Organisations through Automated Policymaking

The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.

Tactical Tech

Tactical Tech

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

The Digital First Aid Kit

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

Outreach Grid

Outreach Grid

Irvine, CA

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

Justika

Justika

Indonesia

Justika offers real-time legal support over the telephone for a broad range of problems, such as marriage, inheritance, and employment.

Canadian Open Data Society

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN)

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN)

621 SW Alder St, Portland, OR 97205, USA

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

AuroraSaurus

AuroraSaurus

New Mexico

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

Fine Fixer

Fine Fixer

Australia

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

Automating NYC

Automating NYC

New York, NY

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

Data Lanterns

Data Lanterns

MIT Media Lab

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

Good Call NYC

Good Call NYC

New York, NY

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

Data Murals

Data Murals

MIT Media Lab

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

Rechtwijzer

Rechtwijzer

Netherlands (the)

Rechtwijzer is an online dispute resolution site. It provides legal remedies and online tools to help parties settledisputes without a lawyer.

Helpline Law

Helpline Law connects people with lawyers and law firms as per their needs.

Dear Landlord

Dear Landlord

Australia

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

One Concern

One Concern

Menlo Park, California, United States

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

Whose Knowledge

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

CryptoHarlem

CryptoHarlem

Harlem, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.

The Markup

The Markup

New York, NY

We are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.

RePresent

RePresent

Connecticut

RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.

DilseWill

DilSeWill is an online platform where users can create a will, and have it mailed to them after completion

Civil Resolution Tribunal

The Civil Resolution is an application for online dispute resolution. It helps resolve small claims and strata property disputes.

Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown

San Francisco

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

NYC Libraries Digital Safety program

NYC Libraries Digital Safety program

New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

NYC Digital Safety: Privacy & Security is a partnership between New York City’s three library systems and METRO, a library resources council serving NYC and Westchester County. With support from the City of New York Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, the project will ensure that NYC residents can rely on public libraries for their questions about internet privacy and security.

Sign Dict

Sign Dict

Richard-Sorge-Straße, Berlin, Germany

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

Demander Justice

Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.

PersonalData.IO

PersonalData.IO

Impact Hub Geneva, Rue Fendt, Geneva, Switzerland

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

SMS for Justice

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology

MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

New York City Civic Engagement Commission

New York City Civic Engagement Commission

1 Centre Street, New York, NY, USA

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

Penda

Penda

Australia

Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.

Liftware

Liftware

269 E Grand Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

Internet Freedom Festival

Internet Freedom Festival

Las Naves, Carrer de Joan Verdeguer, València, Spain

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

Confident Commuter

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

Seattle Tech 4 Housing

Seattle Tech 4 Housing

Seattle, WA, United States of America

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

Public Interest Tech at the Royal Society of Arts Conference

Public Interest Tech at the Royal Society of Arts Conference

Moscone Center, Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

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.

Rachio

Rachio

1321 15th St., Denver, Colorado 80202, US

The Wi-Fi Smart Sprinkler Control system that saves up to 50% on watering bills using your laptop or smartphone to schedule watering times and automatically adjusts watering amounts.

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