Civic Tech Field Guide

Brighthive

A data collaborative company. Using open source tech & data trusts to enhance impact, inform decisions, & increase equity of opportunity.

MIT Open Documentary Lab Docubase

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling.

Living Wage

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Empowering employers and employees to ensure fair wages

Data visualization

Congress on New Urbanism

Congress For the New Urbanism, 1720 N Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

The premiere national event on building better places

Ciudad.Decide

Fuencarral, Madrid, Spain

Ciudad.Decide is a pilot project to encourage citizen participation in Fuencarral, district of Madrid, Spain.

Ask The EU

Madrid (Spain)

Get answers from EU Institutions

Alaveteli

Kupeza Chambo

Malawi (Malaŵi)

It is a platform that will innovate technology to increase access to the Malawi story, including access to the historical manuscripts at the National Archives of Malawi, and other well-researched content authored by ‘Logos – Open culture’, and other producers

Code for Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Iowa is known around the country for its abundance of corn, soybeans, and pork. Code for Iowa is about leveraging our lesser-known abundance of technology talent to spur civic innovation.

Midia Ninja

Rede de comunicação livre que busca novas formas de produção e distribuição de informação a partir de uma lógica colaborativa de trabalho.

MapLight

MapLight is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that reveals the influence of money in politics, informs and empowers voters, and advances reforms that promote a more responsive democracy.

Growth Africa

Lenana Towers, Nairobi, Kenya

We accelerate African business.

Tech & Check Conference

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

Mobile Coverage Maps

The Michigan Moonshot is Merit’s commitment to ending the digital divide

BriteHeart

41 Peabody Street, Nashville, TN

BriteHeart's mission is to ENGAGE, CONNECT and EMPOWER citizens for positive change through ARTIVISM. #getcivic

OrganizeFor

Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform

racial equity

Mapbox

An open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Our APIs and SDKs are the building blocks to integrate location into any mobile or web app.

Mapping platforms

Gebiedonline

Amsterdam

De leukste buurt maak je samen, op een buurtplatform van gebiedonline.

Hylo

Bay Area, CA, USA

A web and mobile app that helps people do more together.

Cityfi

We help governments, organizations and companies understand and navigate the increasingly complex urban landscape, and work together to create a sustainable and executable vision for the future, fast.

Social impact design firms

Forensic Architecture

University of London, Malet Street, London, UK

Uses a mix of cutting edge technologies including 3D modeling, data mining, machine learning, pattern analysis, and virtual reality, to conduct independent investigations into human rights abuses and police killings

human rights

Harta corupției judeţene

Romania

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My Country Talks

Hamburg

My Country Talks matches political opposites for 1:1 conversations

How do you like it so far?

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

How Do You Like It So Far uses pop culture to take soundings of a society in transition, exploring intersections with civic imagination and engagement, and social and political change. Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay are your guides on this adventure.

podcasts

Center for Humane Technology

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

Code Alliance

Dear Social Good Coders! It’s with huge excitement today that I announce the relaunch of our SocialCoding4Good (SC4G) initiative as Code Alliance!

eCitizens.org

We’ll index local government, committee, department, commission and school boards agendas, minutes, budgets and myriad other documents municipalities must publish by law as well as those they may be posting voluntarily.

OpenSources

North Andover, MA

Was a professionally curated lists of online sources, available free for public use

Municode

1700 Capital Circle Southwest, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA

Municode provides website design & development, electronic payment processing, codification, and publishing services to local governments.

civic.json

A specification of the civic.json metadata standard for civic technology projects

Microsoft AI for Good Challenge

Australia

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

Warren's Meme Team

United States of America (the)

Saving the nation with selfies and memes

Disqus

Disqus offers the best add-on tools for websites to increase engagement. We help publishers power online discussions with comments and earn revenue with native advertising.

Poplus Mapit

Solve your app’s administrative boundary problems, easily

Vote Women

Kampala, Uganda

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

women

The Digital Bill

France

The Government clearly highlighted the modifications made to the text following this consultation, in order to facilitate the follow-up of proposals from different contributors.

Jarokelo.hu

Hungary (Magyarország)

Report street-fixing issues in Hungary

Spendrise

Spendrise is a platform for creating positive change everywhere you spend money. Speak up as a paying customer and help businesses you love become even better.

Sarapis

New York City

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

Procurement Playbook

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

Expert & Citizen Assessment of Science & Technology (ECAST)

A Distributed Network of Institutions for Peer to Peer Public Deliberation

The Hackable City (Netherlands)

Amsterdam

The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.

We Sign It

Découvrez We Sign It, la plateforme de création de pétitions en ligne. Wesign.it vous permet en quelques clics seulement de lancer votre pétition, de faire campagne et de mobiliser autour de vous.

DoSomething.org

DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NY, USA

Largest organization for social change volunteers and community service, with 6,000,000 members and counting.

Engineers without Borders Canada

Canada

EWB Canada is a vibrant community of professionals and students working to eliminate poverty by fostering innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Canada and around the world.