A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Pro bono and volunteer

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Meet the others
• Graveyard
• Mastodon

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Conferences
• Design

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

urging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

We build tools that foster civic participation, civc education, and government transparency. Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

Technology to strengthen citizens - Transforma a tu organización en aliada de la ciudadanía.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

CiviCue is a decentralized autonomous civic media platform equipped with blockchain civic tech that aims to disrupt existing media landscape by serving as a public good collectively owned and managed by all users who contribute to the platform wellbeing and benefit from profit sharing, thus balancing commercial interests and social values.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

Building the next generation of collaborative systems, owned entirely in the public interest

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics

• resources

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

How local governments can serve people better through effective communications and digital services.

• local

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Engagement tech
• Data visualization
• Surveys & polling

Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.

• Find a job or hire someone

• Graveyard
• Innovation teams and labs

Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー

• Conferences

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

Civic Bridge recruits private sector professionals to volunteer their time to work alongside government employees on critical City issues

• Pro bono and volunteer

This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.

• Learn about civic tech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Reading lists

Japan's first civic tech accelerator 日本初のシビックテック領域特化型 アクセラレータープログラム、始動。

• Accelerators

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence

A nonpartisan group of businesses working together to build a future where everyone participates in shaping our country.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions

Social Media Management Software for Politics

• Organize campaigns
• Social media

Join a worldwide movement to catalog every open source civic tech project

• Github

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Design

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore is a research hub led by Dr. Weiyu Zhang. We are a team of social scientists, computer scientists, and digital cultural analysts.

• Research and policy centers

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Fellowships
• Design

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Newsletters

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

A 501(c)3 nonprofit that works with residents, organizations, and municipalities to help improve the quality of life of all people in communities. We do this through engagement, education, connection and design.

• Design

The overarching goal of the Civic Science Fellows Program is to co-create strong, diverse, and inclusive connections between science and civic life.

• Fellowships

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

• anti-trafficking

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Civic Seed is on online multi-player RGP to prepare college students for community service work that is now an integral ...

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Civic Quarterly is a publication about transforming government with digital tools & design thinking.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard