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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Source Africa
AfricaIt is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.
The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers
Hope
New York CityHope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.
Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.
The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).
Civocracy
BerlinCivocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth
GOT Data
Prishtina, KosovoGOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.
The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.
Open Data Swiss Handbook
Switzerlandhandbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.
This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.
Open Field
Los Angeles, CAOpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.
The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
Ethelo
VancouverEthelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
Gov.UK Performance Dashboards
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.
Wahl-O-Mat
GermanyThe Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.
NY Senate Bill Alerts
New York, USAThe New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.
DKAN comes out-of-the-box with comprehensive public-facing engagement and administrative site management tools.
Neocity
FranceNeocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en
More than a doc, Dropbox Paper is a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.
La boîte à idées
Plougastel-Daoulas, FranceA la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.
Libre AI
Dublin, IrelandLibre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."
Popit
MalaysiaPopit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.
State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned
A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem
We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...
Candid
32 Old Slip, 24th Floor New York, NY 10005Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
FutureAir
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAFutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.
SMS for Justice
IndiaSMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
TenderBase
EuropeThis tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.
A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.
VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.
Polis
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaPolis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
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