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

2022 book by Dan Bouk

• 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

Estonia's early digital identity govtech pilot

• Govtech
• Predecessors

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

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

• Predecessors

Europe's largest association of hackers.

• Predecessors

[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

From Social Movement to Moral Market

• Organize campaigns
• Predecessors

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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

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

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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
• Open data publishing platforms

The commission shall publish annually a directory of the computerized information produced or maintained by city agencies which is required by law to be publicly accessible.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

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.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

A crowdsourced US timeline of civic tech as a field

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

• Predecessors

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

• The Tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Govtech

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

• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Digital rights
• Predecessors