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.
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A mentoring app connecting new and former members of Congress
Michael Knapp is the CEO and founder of Green River, a software design and development firm that has worked extensively with local governments. He is passionate about social justice, and his firm’s most prominent recent project has involved working with cities to end homelessness. We spoke with him about his experiences with the government procurement Read More
Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine
Proof empowers governments to go paperless by streamlining approvals and improving data-driven decisions.
For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.
A modern take on the traditional think tank, Global Americans provides up-to-date research and analysis on key areas and issues affecting Latin America
MapChecking calculates the size of an area, and then calculates how many people may be standing in it - based on how thick the crowd is.
Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers
A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.
Sharing America's Code. Unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government’s software
Over 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.
Clear My Record is a free, non-profit service to help you dismiss or reduce old convictions on your criminal record.
Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset
It helps people and organizations to use inclusive technologies to build systems and services that are accessible, responsive, and resilient.
Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.
Newsgeist is a gathering of practitioners and thinkers from the worlds of journalism, technology, and public policy who are re-imagining the future of the news.
This was an online platform that community groups can use to develop online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing.
This section contains information about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard that is used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings.
National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making. We are the people's guide to the federal budget. In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our pioneering work to track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the need to build a green economy. In 2017, we joined the non-profit Institute for Policy Studies as an independent project.
At MIT, the Design Laboratory exists within a context of broad-based technological innovation and builds upon the unique advantages offered by this setting. It pursues research, executes practical design and art projects, and engages in scholarship and criticism.
Our trusted network of actions makes it easy for users to find great content that is personalized to their interests, and for them to track the impact they have made.
Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments
The Canadian Digital Service teams up with federal departments and agencies to put people’s needs at the centre of government services.
This playbook is a crash course on service design. It works alongside the 13 points set out in the Digital Service Standard to provide the basics needed to get started on a digital service.
Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]
We are really looking forward to welcoming cities from across Europe to share insights and ideas for tackling the challenges facing our cities
Helping staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal assistance sector in Victoria.