Civic Tech Field Guide
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This is our collection of discrete tech-supported campaigns designed to create a change in the world. A campaign is the method in which we organize people to shift power. Technology has changed how campaigns operate, for the better (it's never been easier or cheaper to reach and organize large numbers of people) and the worse (private data has been used to profile voters, and technology is accused of facilitating shallower relationships between supporters).
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Democracy Beyond Elections
United States of America (the)A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.
Global Coalition for Tech Justice
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
HetzJaeger
Germany (Deutschland)A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
Decriminalize Poverty
TennesseeThis narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.
Name Reclaim
CanadaReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages
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Israel (Jisra'el)"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Gas Leaks
United States of America (the)Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation
#STOPSHOTSPOTTER
United States of America (the)A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."
IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.
The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Redes Ayuda
Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaDerechos Humanos en Venezuela #RedesAyuda #ONG
AidAccess
United States of America (the)Online consult for abortion pills by mail
Eduplana
NigeriaEduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.
Take Back The Tech! is a call to everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women.
La Constitución es Nuestra
Santiago, ChileProyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.
97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
Public Bank LA
Los Angeles, CABanking as a public utility is a proven model worldwide. Public banks keep money local and cut costs by eliminating middlemen, shareholders and high-paid executives.
Archiving local political websites
United States of America (the)Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.
The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.
The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.
Narrative Initiative
594 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USANarrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.
We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.
Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
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.
The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.
We help everyone to shape and claim the future of the Web.
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
Our Voice USA
Portland, MEBuilding Free Technology Tools for We, The People
Human.nyc
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USAOur team spent two years listening to homeless New Yorkers. This website aims to summarize our findings and push forward sensible reforms that we developed alongside our homeless neighbors.
Pollution Explorers
EuropeWearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.
Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
Protect Our Care
Austin, TXA campaign leveraging personal stories about Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act to defend it from legislative attacks
Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.
TNCS Today San Francisco
San FranciscoData map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
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