To display on a smartphone the route that Bashō traveled in the local area, allowing people to follow it on their own without a guide.

Japan's first municipal Decidim deployment; Kakogawa's online participatory consensus platform

A disaster data visualization service.

A sleep diary for raising awareness of health and sleep-related issues.

Podcast / livestream where civic tech practitioners chat informally about their work

Watching the watchers: political news and discourse aggregation and analysis for New Zealand.

A civic tech organization in Aomori Prefecture where students, universities, and business professionals collaborate.

Flagship Japanese civic tech project; built in 1.5 days by Tokyo Gov + Code for Japan, OSS forked by ~80 municipalities

A volunteer matching app using AI-based personality assessment to achieve bidirectional matching between volunteers and organizations, rather than a simple search-based approach.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Manage volunteers
• Civic hackathons

A Japanese civic tech community/project group advancing better democratic practices and social implementation through digital technology and civic participation.

An app providing timetables, route search, facility guides, and machine-readable datasets for users of government-operated welfare buses for people with disabilities.

Open-source garbage collection day app; launched in Kanazawa, expanded to 100+ cities

Platform letting local assemblies easily prototype open-data-driven assembly apps

A guide map visualizing the characteristics and specialties of civic tech organizations across Japan to help match citizens with the right activities.

• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others
• Data visualization

Local-content development projects (tourism, etc.) by Code for Yamatokoriyama in Nara

App supporting children's nutrition education focused on school lunches

GTFS data creation case for Akitakata City (UDC 2023 award)

Facilitating communication between residents and local government through a participatory tree management app.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Issue reporting

A Japanese version of the Civic Tech Graveyard platform, preserving projects that didn't succeed for future reference.

An app for sharing locations with internet or phone connectivity during the Noto Peninsula earthquake.

AI tool that drafts one-page legislative meeting briefs tailored to a specific legislator, with verified citations from bill text and committee analyses.

A global news-intelligence feed that helps readers spot stories, gaps, and framing differences their usual feed may miss.

Free Hebrew explainer pages with interactive charts and maps for every dataset on Israel's national open-data portal (data.gov.il), written by an AI agent and validated against the source data.

A free, nonpartisan tracker for every 2026 US federal, state, and local election, with source-linked candidate profiles built from public records.

Free public REST API that unifies German city infrastructure open data (weather, air quality, water levels, EV chargers, live transit) from 35+ official sources for 84 cities, with per-record license attribution and no API key required.

International platform for civic engagement and petitioning

Free UK & Cyprus company search with ownership graphs, computed risk signals and email alerts on material changes.

The best source for job hunting in politics.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards