Civic Tech Field Guide
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A product directory of hundreds of civic tech products and services, organized by their functions in democracies.
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WeFugees
Muskauer Str. 24, 10997 Berlin, Berlin, Germanythe first and only Multi-Stakeholder Question & Answer Community for refugee topics
A website dedicated to helping employers create vote-friendly workplace policies, and celebrating those that do
BallotReady
Chicago, ILBallotReady is an online voter guide to local elections. We make it easy to vote informed on every candidate all across America.
Wetaase
Kampala, UgandaWetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.
National Transportation Noise Map
United States of America (the)
Fairwork
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKThe Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.
Resources and tools for Hurricane Irma response, relief and recovery.
US Census TIGER
Suite 216 Bendheim Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 U.S.A.From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010
Search for elected offices across the USA.
Integrated Benefits Initiative
United States of America (the)Code for America partnered with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Nava Public Benefit Corporation to conduct pilots in Michigan (in partnership with Civilla), Colorado, Alaska, Vermont (led by Nava PBC) and Louisiana.
Popvox Legidash
Bay Area, CA, USAThe Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.
Bologna Neighborhood workshops
Bologna, ItalyCon i Laboratori potrai segnalare, creare e far votare proposte per il tuo quartiere: contattaci o vieni agli incontri, per lavorare insieme a tecnici del Comune di Bologna ed esperti di coprogettazione.
OpenMobilityData
United States of America (the)OpenMobilityData will be the first data commons to fully integrate with transit data editors to update data automatically.
Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.
Latinno
Berlincases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)
Quality data collection for challenging settings
Crosscheck
FranceCrossCheck is a collaborative journalism project that brings together newsrooms across France and beyond to accurately report false and misleading claims.
Remesh is an AI-powered insights platform that helps some of the world’s most innovative brands unlock rich, scalable insights in record time.
GovTech 100
United States of America (the)A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.
The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.
To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.
BERN app
Burlington, VTBERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.
Loomio
Wellington, New ZealandLoomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action
The professional association for design
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.
SMS reminders from the Office of Court Administration
New York CityNew York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants
OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.
Data Justice Conference 2020: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society
Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UKThe conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.
Citizens' Voice
Witte Kruislaan 55a 1217 AM HilversumCitizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.
Envisio
250 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, British Columbia, CanadaEnvisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.
EasyVote Solutions
1 Innovation Way, Woodstock, GA 30188, USAEasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.
Slido is an audience interaction tool for meetings, events and conferences. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.
TechAndCheck Newsletter code
Duke University, Durham, NC, USACode to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers
Spot the Box
United States of America (the)Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations
Hush City
Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, GermanyWith Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.
Conforma
1200 18th St NW Washington DCFormerly &Partners. We craft creative solutions and build technology products that improve the communities you serve.
The Effect of Bureaucratic Responsiveness on Citizen Participation
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)What effect does bureaucratic responsiveness have on citizen participation?
SEMA
The Innovation Village Kampala, Kampala, UgandaWe gather citizen voices to improve public services
Berlin swimming map
BerlinAktuelle Badegewässerqualität und Informationen rund um die Berliner Badestellen
Hello Lampost
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.
AR Hoverlay prototypes
MIT Media LabAt the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…
Test+Build is a digital platform that provides customers with the tools to design their own behavioural science interventions and run their own randomised controlled trials (RCTs).
The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.
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