Adjacent Fields - (435)

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

TechSoup

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USA

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

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.

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.

Libre AI

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre 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."

Hukoomi

Hukoomi

Qatar (Dawlat Qatar)

Hukoomi 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

Openly Operated

535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States

The free transparency certification

JusticeTrans

JusticeTrans offers legal information about transgender rights across Canada.

Legal Robot

Legal Robot

548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA

Legal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.

Up & Go

Up & Go

443 39th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, United States

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

Our Data Bodies

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.

Project Shield

Project Shield

New York City

Project 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.

Wonder.Legal

Wonder.Legal

India (Bhārat)

Wonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.

Constitute Project

Constitute 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

The Glass Room

SoHo, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.

Citizen Lab Summer Institute

The 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.

Wukla

Wukla

Pakistan

Wukla is an online platform where users can create agreements and legal documents, and have these delivered to their house.

Guardian Project

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

Law Strive

Nigeria

Law Strive is a website through which individuals and businesses can get instant legal advice, and hire lawyers.

Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund

Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

The 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

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

LawyerLinx is a legal marketplace where individuals and businesses can find lawyers on demand.

Rarenet

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

to 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

Outline

New York City

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

The Internet Master Plan NYC

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

Tea Party

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.

Planned Parenthood Saved Me

Planned Parenthood Saved Me

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

We're posting stories from people whose lives were saved or changed because they had access to affordable, compassionate healthcare through Planned Parenthood.

Barefoot Law

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

Project Callisto

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.

The Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST)

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

Centre for Indigenous Innovation and Technology

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

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

Virtual Lawyer

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.

Center for Civic Education

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

The Layman's Lawyer

India (Bhārat)

On the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.

Small Media

Small 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

Attorned

Canada

Attorned 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.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

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

New Story

San Francisco

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

San José Digital Inclusion Fund

San José Digital Inclusion Fund

San Jose, California, USA

San 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

Digital Integrity Fellowship

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

The 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.

CS4All

CS4All

New York City

The Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative offers a number of programs focused on helping schools to expand computer science (CS) exposure, offer access to robust CS experiences, and foster a sense of belonging in computer science for students.

MyData

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.

Burocratas YouTube channel

Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

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

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

Data Cívica

Data Cívica

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

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