Civic Tech Field Guide

Periscope

5000 Plaza on the Lake, Austin, TX 78746, USA

Procurement software developed by procurement professionals for procurement professionals.

Open Gov Report Card

6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Grades how Chicago and Cook County government agencies share important meeting information like agendas, minutes and schedules with the public

Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.

South Africa National Data Portal

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

The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) runs the Data.gov.za web platform which catalogues and links to existing open data sets on external websites but also hosts data on behalf of government departments and agencies

Civic data

California Wellness Foundation

OffeneRegister.de

Germany (Deutschland)

Light into the darkness of the corporate network

Media Democracy Fund

Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.

POINT

Sarajevo

POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference in SEE and seeks to be a platform for civil society that encourages the use of new technologies – tool for education about the use of new technologies and social networks; forum for exchange of views and experiences; incubator for the development of ideas, projects and strategies; virtual place for networking and informing socially conscious Internet users; as well as a social network for exploring and searching for partners and associates and building coalitions.

Macon Money

Wilson Center Commons Lab: “In 2011, residents of Macon, Georgia received over $65,000 in free local currency—with a catch."

Resources for organizers, campaigners and digital strategists to respond to coronavirus

A resource hub for responding to coronavirus, compiled from a massive organizers' call

Amazon Public Dataset team

Amazon, 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA, USA

This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources.

Amazon

Tiger Eye

Ghana

A mobile application that enables anyone in Ghana to use their mobile phones to safely record corruption activities in their communities. Built in partnership with the Tiger Eye Foundation, it has security features that ensure the safety of citizens who use it.

City Of Tomorrow

Amsterdam

It explores how different stakeholders in the Smart City ecosystem can come together to build safer, more efficient and sustainable cities of the future.

Election data gathering parties

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Help build the free database of UK election candidates

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

books
labor

Services Week UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Services week is a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.

United Kingdom (government)

Sindhupalcheck

Sindupalchowk, Nepal

SindhupalCheck is an app for real-time citizen feedback on the effectiveness of constructing earthquake resilient homes in Nepal.

Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

Database of fact-checking groups around the world

The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.

CityScope Champs-Élysée

Pavillon de l'Arsenal, boulevard Morland, Paris, France

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

urban planning

The CUTgroup book

Chicago, IL

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

books

Transfer Gallery

The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.

ConsultVox

EuraTechnologies, 165, Avenue de Bretagne, 59000 Lille, France

Co-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence

Trimble

With Trimble at your side, you can harness geospatial data collection and measurement technologies, field inspection and asset management tools, as well as analysis systems to engage with citizens, collaborate with business partners, and manage change and compliance to optimize your operations and workforce.

Consensus.ai

Using signals gathered from citizens, either actively and passively, combined with available data sets, Consensus AI helps governments understand their citizens at a much deeper level.

Polis Inc.

36 Bromfield Street, Boston, MA, USA

10% less door-to-door walking time. Automatically generated walk lists.

apps

Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies

Oxford, UK

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

Boulder eligibility calculator

Boulder, CO

"Google.org and Boulder, Colorado, are teaming up to create a new eligibility calculator, which residents of that city will be able to use to determine if they qualify for public programs, discounts or rebates"

Participatory Budgeting Project

Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.

People Powered

Slack

500 Howard St, San Francisco, California, USA

Slack gives your team the power and alignment you need to do your best work.

commercial

SecureDrop

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

Chefs for the Polls

United States of America (the)

World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

US Election 2020

E-Democracy.org forums

RunwayML

Machine learning for creators

Mobile Data for Social Good report

UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects

United Nations

BRCK

iHub Nairobi

Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.

MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism

Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

COVID-19 Response Community Slack

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

iHub

Kenya

SoundCloud

Berlin

Discover, stream, and share a constantly expanding mix of music from emerging and major artists around the world.

commercial

Berkeley Institute for Free Speech Online

Berkeley, California, USA

We provide software that ensures free speech online

Bot Populi

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

Lonely Coders Club

this Slack has over 200 members who identify as “lonely coders,” technologists who are alone or one of just a few folks in their newsroom who work with tech and data.

Open Courts Slovakia

Bratislava

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice