Civic Tech Field Guide

City of Seattle Privacy Principles

Seattle, WA, United States of America

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy

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Digital States

United States of America (the)

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

Readie EU

58 Victoria Embankment, London

Readie was a European digital policy centre that promoted digital policies that benefit society and drive economic growth.

Ashoka Fellowship

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

Our mission is to support development actors to better collect, structure, use and open data, while respecting people's privacy and preserving the interests of the nation - through research, advocacy, training, tools and assistance

OpenBudgets

Europe

A toolbox for analyzing and visualizing public budget data as well as support participatory budgeting

The Coral Project

The Coral Project is an open source project helping publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. Our main tool is Talk.

Patronicity

Detroit, MI

Patronicity brings together local citizens and sponsors to support great initiatives in their communities.

Civic crowdfunding platforms

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

PesaCheck

East Africa

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

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Bosque Urbano

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

An urban tree counter

PlusPool

New York City

A water-filtering floating pool in New York for everybody

Clean water and sanitation

Civic Signals

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.

Kremlin Watch

Kremlin Watch is a strategic program of the European Values Center for Security Policy which aims to expose and confront instruments of Russian influence and disinformation operations focused against Western democracies.

Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities

Open Connectivity Foundation

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification

The Parker Foundation

The Parker Foundation was founded on October 5, 1971 for charitable purposes leading to the betterment of life for all people of San Diego County.

Civic Hall Digital Learning Center Professional Training Programs

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

Yelp's Consumer Protection Initiative

Yelp, Inc, New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Today we're excited to announce we’ve joined forces with ProPublica to incorporate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.

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MightyCause

Alexandria, VA, USA

A HUB OF FUNDING TOOLS MADE WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN MIND

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

Civic Labs Belgium

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

Project Vote Smart

Vote Smart, 1153 24th Street, Des Moines, IA 50311, USA

Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988.

OpenSecrets.org

Center For Responsive Politics, L Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere

Watchdogging and transparency

Totem

Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.

trainings

Citizen interaction design

Michigan, USA

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

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HuriDocs

Geneva, Switzerland

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

human rights

Ignis

Lincoln, NE, USA

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

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Civic Tech Data & Collaborative framework

United States of America (the)

The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative is a project of Living Cities, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, and Code for America that brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and local data intermediaries across seven communities.

Open Government Partnership Global Summit

Washington, DC

Promoted open data disclosure and use for the public and businesses through key public data disclosure, business matching, youth internship program, and cooperation with relevant organizations

Code for Science and Society

Portland, OR

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

Census Reporter

Census Reporter provides useful facts about every place in America. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site!

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WorkIt Walmart employee app

New York City

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

Stichting INGKA Foundation

Republic

San Francisco

Now you can be an angel investor

Weather or Not

Weather or Not is a simple game designed to introduce the basics of forecast-based humanitarian decisions.

Tzina: symphony of longing

Israel (Jisra'el)

This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.

DoNotPay bot

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The World's First Robot Lawyer

Communally

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

No poverty

BU Initiative on Cities

75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA

The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

Beckton

Beckton is an open source tool for creating a new group of paying members, but only if enough people agree to join to make it worth while.

Backfence

Vienna, VA

Backfence was a place for community news and info written by you and your neighbors

Wadhwani AI

Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.

Meditect

Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)

Meditect offers an innovative mobile solution which combines blockchain and artificial intelligence to allow pharmacists and patients to scan their medicines and thus ensure their authenticity.