Civic Tech Field Guide

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

Governance game

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

SandDance

Visually explore, understand, and present data SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data

Attendize is an Open-source ticket selling and event management platform and is everything you need for a successful event. Attendize has a wide array of features aimed at making organising events as effortless as possible.

Argu

Argu, Maliebaan, Utrecht, Nederland

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

Citizen Foundation

Iceland (Ísland)

Bringing people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities while connecting citizens to governments to build up trust.

Check

San Francisco

a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time

AskThem

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

questions-and-answers with elected officials, candidates, media, and more public figures

Vota Inteligente

Santiago, Chile

The election is ours

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis 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.

Polis

VotoSocial

A secure, decentralized, auditable and open platform for e-voting and vote counting that everybody can trust

HeatSeek

New York City

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

housing

Chileleaks

Santiago, Chile

Safe and anonymous platform for whistleblowing in Chile

Streetmix

Philadelphia

Civic engagement for street design

mobility

Source Africa

Africa

It 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.

free speech

Tech Kontra Wirus

Poland (Polska)

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

Popit

Malaysia

Popit 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.

Ethelo

Vancouver

Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.

GlobaLeaks

Open source and free software that enables the creation of anonymous and secure whistleblowing platforms

Apollo

Washington, DC

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

Open Data Atlas

Germany (Deutschland)

Alle Open Data Portale in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.

Are we in Lockdown dot com

Website that shows country-by-country coronavirus social distancing responses

Oligrapher

Oligrapher is a tool for visualizing networks of influence

Tenants Map

New York City

TenantsMap shows residential buildings with rent-regulated units throughout Manhattan and their volume of housing safety-related 311 service requests, which is updated daily.

housing

JobTech Development

Arbetsförmedlingen Malmö, Föreningsgatan, Malmö, Sweden

JobTech Development är en utvecklingsenhet inom Arbetsförmedlingen Vi erbjuder öppna data och Open Source-teknologi till de som, tillsammans med oss, vill bidra till en väl fungerande arbetsmarknad.

SmartElect

SmartElect simplifies elections management with web and mobile tools that improve data accuracy, transparency, and visual reporting across the entire elections process.

Gephi

13 rue de l'université, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, France

Makes graphs handy

commercial

Umbrella app

Security First’s flagship Umbrella app gives you free digital and physical security advice when you need it most.

apps

Ethelo Citizen Budget

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

Stay the Fuck Home dot com

The Self-Quarantine Manifesto

DemocraciaOS

Buenos Aires

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.

Poplus

Was a global federation for civic tech with reusable components for projects

Cofacts

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

LINE

Dataverse

Open source research data repository software

Databasic

MIT Media Lab

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. These simple tools make it easy to work with data in fun ways, so you can learn how to find great stories to tell.

Zug ID, Switzerland blockchain for identity

Zug, Switzerland

We recently announced our cooperation with the Swiss City of Zug and local development partner ti&m to introduce the world’s first live…

Pledgebank

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

It let people set up pledges in the form: ‘I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me’.

GovTrack.us

United States Capitol

Tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

Transit.land

Bay Area, CA, USA

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

InVID Verification Plugin

Europe

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

extensions

TraceMap

Berlin

TraceMap is an open source web tool that allows you to visualize the spread of a Tweet, analyze its trustworthiness and to engage with others in fighting misinformation.

Madison

Washington, DC

Legislation and regulations that impact your life are written every day. With Madison, you can work directly with the sponsors of these documents.

Bill To Text

United States of America (the)

BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.

OpenMapKit

Master Directory for OpenMapKit

Helios

Assembl

Paris, France

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.