Civic Tech Field Guide

GetThru (formerly Relay)

Best in class P2P texting and calling tools to help you reach your audiences at scale.

Haqdarshak

India (Bhārat)

Haqdarshak enables citizens to access government welfare schemes for which they are eligible. They provide onlineand offline support with documentation and applications.

Climate Careers

High-impact jobs solving the climate crisis

Climate action

MobLab Dispatch

The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

Extituto

Bogotá

Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

DataWrapper

Berlin

Enrich your stories with charts, maps and tables.

Idealist.org

Idealist connects millions of idealists – people who want to do good – with opportunities for action and collaboration all over the world.

Self-fabricated Face Shields

People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program

Bloomberg Philanthropies, 25 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075, USA

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

San Francisco

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur.

books

Norman Lear Center

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

Amandla Awethu

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

Awethu puts power in your hands. This is your space to run campaigns about issues affecting the Black majority of South Africa, particularly women. If you have an idea to make your community or the world, a better place for Black women, awethu can help you make it a reality.

Advocacy tech

Zlto

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

Civic tech projects can aim at changing citizen’s behaviours. Zlato from South Africa is a digital platform which rewards positive behaviour inside communities thanks to a digital currency which can be used to purchase local products, from clothes to haircuts.

g0v Presidential Hackathon

Taipei City, Taiwan

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

g0v

impact hub

Impact Hub is the world’s largest network focused on building entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale - home to the innovators, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs who are creating tangible solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

Form 990 Datathon

The Datathon, a unique collaboration between nonprofit researchers and data scientists, brought together individuals from the Aspen Institute, Charity Navigator, GuideStar, Urban Institute, Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and American University.

The Rules Culture Hacking Toolkit

The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. We call it Culture Hacking.

Principled Artificial Intelligence

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

A map of ethical and rights-based approaches

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA, USA

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

Open Artificial Pancreas System project (#OpenAPS)

#WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes

diabetes

Voting for transparency

San Francisco

Voting works wants to restore trust and faith in the electoral process while also battling the risk of election interference from hackers

OpenCoesione

Largo Pietro di Brazzà, Roma, RM, Italia

Towards better use of development resources. Find out, follow, press forward.

FarmChat

India (Bhārat)

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

Spot

for reporting workplace harassment

harassment

Trutheum

Zug, Switzerland

By using the power of Ethereum, distributed networks and crowdfunding, we are building a system that will reward people who help surface the truth.

Sponsor the Vote

Make a small donation and this group will mail voter registration forms to unregistered voters in that state.

US Election 2020

Code for Boise

Boise, ID

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

ProcureNow

San Francisco

ProcureNow is an elegant, modern and fully customizable software solution for transforming your procurement process. Formerly Govlist.

GVEP International

Georgia Berry, Communications Officer for GVEP International, reports back on the Partner workshops. Launching a new programme of activities in East Africa, GVEP International Team members were in Uganda and Kampala in March to meet with some GVEP

Netfreedom Pioneers

California

We are a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach.

free speech

Pears Innovation for International Development Program

The Pears Program believes in the transformative power of values-driven innovation to improve the lives of people all over the world.

Sovereign

Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.

Cal Humanities

A state affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Personal Democracy Forum CEE

European Solidarity Centre, pI. Solidarności, Gdańsk, Poland

Personal Democracy Forum CEE is a unique space where the enthusiasm for technology is supported with meaningful debates on its role in the contemporary world.

Ushahidi

Nairobi

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

Govlaunch

San Francisco

The wiki for local government innovation ✨

wikis

Vote Matrix

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

Data Permissions Catalog

London

An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data

FixMyCommunity

FixMyCommunity is a system for citizens to report problems in infrastructure or service delivery. FixMyCommunity was originally created by MySociety as FixMyStreet.

Future Architects

We are a home, refuge and resource for people collaboratively shaping a kind, just, inclusive, and prosperous world.

PDX Women in Tech

Portland, OR

PDX Women in Tech exists to encourage women to join tech and support and empower women so they stay in tech.

women

Target Smart

At TargetSmart, we make data better every day. And making better data helps our clients make the right decisions, define their audiences more intelligently, and communicate in a more impactful and cost-effective way.