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How to talk to civic hackers

This book is meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy.

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Open Tech Fund's list of funders

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

Civic Innovation and Building a People-Centered Government

A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.

Décider ensemble

128 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, France

Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels

Public Service Lab

Berlin

Supporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications

The Hub East Africa

Nairobi

The knowledge hub for start-ups and SME’s

Centre for Humanitarian Data's Data Fellows

Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, Netherlands

Through this programme, Fellows design and deliver targeted projects that contribute to the Centre's overall goal of increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector.

Across Green Country, from the Tulsa Zoo to ONEOK Field, education to health, assisting neighborhoods to assisting nonprofits, Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is making a difference in Eastern Oklahoma

Gates Foundation

We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual

People's Roadmap for a Digital New York City

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

In this citizen created roadmap, we outline how to humanize technology, move beyond transparency for transparency's sake, and ensure we have government technology that works for the people, built with the people.

UNLTD USA

We work at the city-level to find, fund and support the most promising entrepreneurs; then we build an ecosystem of support around them

GovLab digest email

Subscribe to curated findings and actionable knowledge from The Living Library, delivered to your inbox every Friday

SF Civic Tech

San Francisco

Formerly Code for San Francisco, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

Code for Fort Collins

Fort Collins, CO

Code for Fort Collins is a volunteer organization who develops technology-driven solutions to challenges faced by charities, government agencies, and other groups within the city.

MIT GOV/LAB

30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

The MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.

Azim Premji Foundation

Towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society Our journey began with Education. Over the years, our work has expanded to Grants, Health and Livelihoods Read more Towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society Our journey began with Education. Over the years, our work has expanded to Grants, Health and Livelihoods Read more What […]

Code for Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Bridging the gap between local government and human capital in Chapel Hill

Data 4 Good Conference UK

Birmingham, UK

The conference will connect leaders and practitioners to explore how non-profits are adapting and excelling in an increasingly data-driven world.

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

US Open Government

Google Group

El Soberano

Chile

El Soberano aparece entonces como una plataforma informativa que surge desde las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y de los movimientos sociales a efectos de informar directamente a los ciudadanos, sin censuras editoriales, sin aceptar presiones de ningún tipo.

National Domestic Workers Alliance

National Domestic Workers Alliance, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States, most of whom are women.

domestic work

Brexit Tools

A collection of tools and resources to learn and act on Brexit.

Brexit

F4c-response listserv

This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid19 virus plays out.

Code for Australia

Neighbourhood - 4 Brunswick Pl, 4 Brunswick Place, Fitzroy VIC, Australia

Building a 21st century government, together. We’re working towards a government that is built by and made for everyone.

BBVA's Innova Challenge

Bilbao, Spain

Spanish regional bank BBVA shared anonymized credit card transactions data with participating developers in its Innova Challenge.

mySociety Research

483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS United Kingdom

Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.

Beyond Uptake

Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.

NYC TreesCount! Data Jam

New York City

NYC Trees Count Data Jam

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Portugal

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 and aims to improve people's lives through art, charity, science and education.

Fundación Karisma

Transversal 22a #59-44, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

Human.nyc

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

Our 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.

homelessness

Code for Denver

Denver

We build software to help nonprofits and local government better serve their community.

Code for New Hampshire

Manchester, NH

Code for New Hampshire is an unofficial Code for America Brigade, a group of volunteers that bring community members together to make government work better.

Survey160

272 1st Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.