Civic Tech Field Guide
Sharing knowledge and productively growing the fieldAdjacent 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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TechSoup
435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USATechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.
Libre AI
Dublin, IrelandLibre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."
Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.
Hukoomi
QatarHukoomi is an e-governance application which provides access to a broad range of information, including legal information for business, and information about visa and immigration procesess.
Openly Operated
535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United StatesThe free transparency certification
Wonder.Legal
IndiaWonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.
Legal Robot
548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USALegal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.
Up & Go
443 39th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, United StatesHome cleaning in NYC you can feel great about
Constitute Project
TexasConstitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.
The Glass Room
SoHo, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAa three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.
Citizen Lab Summer Institute
TorontoThe Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing questions for the Internet.
Project Shield
New York, NYProject Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.
Wukla
PakistanWukla is an online platform where users can create agreements and legal documents, and have these delivered to their house.
Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.
Law Strive
NigeriaLaw Strive is a website through which individuals and businesses can get instant legal advice, and hire lawyers.
Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAThe lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.
The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.
LawyerLinx
CanadaLawyerLinx is a legal marketplace where individuals and businesses can find lawyers on demand.
Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.
Mission Billion Challenge
Cambridge, MAto surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.
Outline
New York, NYOutline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.
The Internet Master Plan NYC
New York, NYThe Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.
Barefoot Law
UgandaBarefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.
Planned Parenthood Saved Me
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USAWe're posting stories from people whose lives were saved or changed because they had access to affordable, compassionate healthcare through Planned Parenthood.
The Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST)
Pakistana data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions
A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.
Data & Society Research Institute
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USAData & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.
Virtual Lawyer
Bangladesh (Bānglādesh / বাংলাদেশ)Virtual Lawyer is a web-based platform where individuals can find legal assistance from a pool of virtual lawyers, based on their requirements.
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.
The Layman's Lawyer
IndiaOn the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.
Small Media
LondonSmall Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.
Attorned
CanadaAttorned is a platform that links clients to lawyers through a bidding system. It increases access to justice by presenting a large pool of lawyers from multiple sectors.
Project Callisto
United States of America (the)Project Callisto helps survivors of sexual assualt and harrasment on college campuses document sexual assault, seek counseling, and start an investigation.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.
Resources for the global digital safety training community.
We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.
We propose an effort to develop a “Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools”. This will be delivered by an informal group of like-minded organizations coming together around a common purpose.
New Story
San FranciscoWe pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.
San José Digital Inclusion Fund
San Jose, California, USASan José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.
Digital Integrity Fellowship
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAThe Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.
Burocratas YouTube channel
BogotáSomos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.
Data Cívica
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoMás datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.
The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.
Direct Democracy Database
StockholmThe Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.
Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.
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