Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

The 2010s is also the decade where civic tech becomes self-referential, Beginning in 2014 and 2015 we see lots more references to ‘civic tech' (as well as debates about what that phrase means). The Big Bang Moment for this development is probably the December 2013 publication of an oft-cited Knight Foundation report, analyzing the emergence of civic tech and where money is being invested in the space. We see more alignment in terminology, with more groups explicitly using ‘civic' in their organization names.

Stempeck, Sifry, Bhatia, and Modekurty, A Timeline of Civic Tech Tells a Data-Driven Story of the Field