The Working for an MP website is a resource for anyone working for a British Member of Parliament or with an interest in how Parliament works.

• Govtech
• Predecessors
• Supporting public sector from outside government

As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the open source software ecosystem.

• Predecessors
• Open source

A long-standing and heavily-cited definition of what it means for a tech project to be "open source"

• Predecessors
• Open source

Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Predecessors

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights
• Predecessors

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.

• Conferences
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

X-Road, the data exchange layer for information systems, is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Predecessors

From Social Movement to Moral Market

• Organize campaigns
• Predecessors

A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.

• Predecessors

OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology assessment.

• Predecessors

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

The Marketplace is a way to find health coverage that meets your needs and budget.

• Predecessors

The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

• Digital rights
• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Predecessors

A crowdsourced US timeline of civic tech as a field

• Predecessors

a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.

• Predecessors

Europe's largest association of hackers.

• Predecessors

Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Legal tech

mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Predecessors

JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Socialize online