Civic Tech Field Guide
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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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The Open Law Platform
Washington, DCThe Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.
Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.
M-Haki
KenyaM-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.
Data Justice Lab
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UKThe Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data
Uliza Wakili LLP
NairobiUliza Wakili LLP aims to provide low-cost alternative dispute resolution and legal advice to SMEs and startups.
Open Internet for Democracy
455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.
Amicable
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.
Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether they are overseas or just down the street.
EFF Guide to Messaging
Information Controls Fellowship
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Raoul Wallenberg Place Southwest, Washington, DC, USAThe Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.
Digital Rights Foundation
PakistanHelping make the internet safer and more accessible
Elements of Artificial Intelligence free online course
Finland (Suomi)A free course sponsored by the Finnish government to demystify AI
Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Laudelina
Brazil (Brasil)Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.
Law for Me
India (Bhārat)LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.
The Afterpattern app builder is now PatternBuilder, a capability within NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management platform where legal professionals do work.
Code for Australia Online Pleas
Victoria, AustraliaOver 60 percent of people that go to court for a minor offence are planning to and plead guilty. The tool enables guilty pleas to be lodged online prior to the scheduled court date for non-complex minor offences.
Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online
Uitelkaar
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)Uitelkaar helps couples organise their separation or divorce procedure online. The website offers step-by-step consultation and complete guidance at a fixed price.
Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.
Be My Eyes
Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, DenmarkBringing sight to blind and low-vision people
NNIP Catalog of data trainings
The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USAThis catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.
The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.
Grantnav
360Giving, York Way, London, UKSearch, explore and download UK grant data from funders publishing open data to the 360Giving Standard.
Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.
Legal Health Check-up
Halton Community Legal Services, Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON, CanadaHalton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
Gower Street, London, UKIf you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start
Tele Law
India (Bhārat)Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.
An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor
Data Zetu Intiaitive
United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
Pakistani Lawyer
PakistanPakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.
Social Media Exchange (SMEX)
BeirutSocial Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments
ClickLaw
British ColumbiaClickLaw provides legal information and a map of legal support services in British Columbia.
Tempo – Time Credits
15 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ, UKWe co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.
Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.
New America Resilient Mesh Wireless initiative
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.
Immi
United States of America (the)Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.
Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe
ZimbabweCITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.
EveryAction
1445 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005, USAEveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.
We help everyone to shape and claim the future of the Web.
Steps to Justice
OntarioSteps to Justice provides users with step-by-step legal information, practical tools, and referral information for legal and social services across Ontario.
HeLawyer
Benin (Bénin)HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.
Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.
Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAOTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.
Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world
Re-focus
AustraliaRe-focus is a mobile application that provides legal information and welfare advice for women who are separated orare thinking of separating.
Open Tech Fund's list of funders
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAOTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.
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