Civic Tech Field Guide
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In the Civic Tech Field Guide, we focus on examples of govtech that seek to improve society to make it more just and democratic, not just more digital or efficient. We recognize that this is a subjective, values-based perspective of govtech. There is a much larger government IT industry, and we do not aspire to catalog and curate every instance of governmental technology.
Related resources:
- The 2023 GovTech 100
- Companies Made Millions Building Unemployment Websites That Didn’t Work by Colin Lecher for The Markup (2020)
- Thinking About Govtech (PDF): An introduction to govtech, why it matters, and barriers to adoption (2019)
- Do you know how your country’s state of digital development compares? Find out by exploring the OECD’s Going Digital indicators.
- Building an AI World: a CIFAR Report on National and Regional AI Strategies
- A Digital government reading list (2020)
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Govbase is the most comprehensive database of projects and organizations in online governance.
emqnet
Australiaemqnet delivers data-driven software built and supported by a team of resilience experts.
Govtech vendor offering emergency services and elections management tech among other solutions
Damage assessment software designed to rapidly and accurately collect damage assessments for FEMA’s disaster declaration process
Modernized Volunteer Management for Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Facilitate accelerated deployment of collaboration, communication, and task management capabilities for emergency response operations through our open-source app template in Microsoft Teams. Get solution
Security, Safety & Critical Event Management Software. Acquired by IBM.
Juvare’s cloud solution for unified emergency response and automated task workflows
ACR Editor
United States of America (the)This web editor helps evaluators build Accessibility Conformance Reports in the US OpenACR format
Bürokratt
Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)Bürokratt enables citizens or users to use public and information services with virtual assistants through voice-based interaction.
Modernization & Collaboration in New York’s Government
G4I has been designed to serve as THE global meeting place that assembles governments – across all levels – to learn how to securely streamline processes, increase efficiencies, reduce costs and meaningfully transform public service delivery.
NCSC staff will provide intensive training and technical assistance to help courts revise one form or a small set of forms to improve plain language and readability. Your court will identify one form, or a small set of forms to work on throughout the project. At the end of camp, your materials will be redesigned, translated into plain language, and user tested.
US Web Design System
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAA design system for the federal government.
S.4495 - A bill to enable safe, responsible, and agile procurement, development, and use of artificial intelligence by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
Technology Modernization Fund
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAWe drive modernization in federal IT that better serves agencies and the American public.
Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.
Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA)
Taipei City, TaiwanThe moda is committed to promoting suitable digital tools and open mindsets through building resilience and co-creation, powering Taiwan’s shift from a digital island to a global model of digital democracy and innovation.
Democracy Network (Taiwan)
Taipei City, TaiwanConnecting the international community’s and Taiwan’s digital development and democratic governance experiences, leveraging the power of democracy networks to promote civic technology and decentralized autonomy, enhancing network development digital resilience.
form-extractor-prototype
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A prototype tool that extracts the structure of a form from an image or PDF and generates a multi-page web form in the GOV.UK schema. by @timpaul
Singapore's digital transformation unit
mosip16.9
BangaloreWe envision mosip16.9 to be a collaborative hub where diverse perspectives converge to contribute to the current discourse on digital identity.
MOSIP
BangaloreMOSIP offers countries modular and open-source technology to build and own their national identity systems.
Humans of the House has received national media coverage and has been the #1 show in the Government category for several weeks on Apple Podcasts where it has also been featured as a New & Noteworthy Special Series.
CivTech Scotland
ScotlandCivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better
NHS Transformation Directorate
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Transformation to improve health and care for everyone
Code for America AI Studio
United States of America (the)Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."
e-Governance Academy
TallinnThe e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.
The Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.
This guidance outlines the expectation for how civil servants should approach the use of Large Language Models.
Adopting AI Responsibly: Guidelines for Procurement of AI Solutions by the Private Sector
This update allows you to create professional-grade press releases in a matter of minutes with minimal effort and editing.
MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force
Your weekly insight into GovTech collaboration and innovation in Africa, by Luke Cavanaugh
White House Request for Public Comment on Public Participation
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wants your ideas to develop a Federal framework, guidelines, and leading practices for public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities to help Federal agencies more broadly and meaningfully engage with you and your communities.
FCA Digital Sandbox
LondonThe Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.
NYC Smart City Testbed
New York CityThe NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.
Digital Fundamentals for Public Impact
Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United StatesOnline course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.
The Digital Impact Exchange
United Nations FoundationIt can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
Richmond, VAWe are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.
HURREVAC
Richmond, VAHURREVAC is the decision support tool of the [US] National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.
FedGeoDay
Washington, DCFedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government.
Bolsa de sugestões
Lisbon"Suggestions bag" for the Portuguese Assembly. It's actively used but it's not clear where citizen suggestions go once posted.
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