Civic Tech Field Guide

Open Definition

Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE

Through StimuLab, the Digitization Directorate and DOGA will stimulate public innovation from the users' perspective. We support state and municipal businesses that dare to rethink roles and systems and are willing to change these to provide better services to users.

Yogera

Uganda

a citizen’s engagement platform that connects citizens to their government by allowing anyone to anonymously report an issue using their social media platforms.

Ruckus

United States of America (the)

Ruck.us can give you a high-powered, attractive political website in five minutes.

Citizenscape

Citizenscape was a simple, manageable and cost-effective way for you to start getting involved in all the local social media conversation.

DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project

Washington, DC

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

State Decoded

The State Decoded parser can either be modified to use bespoke PHP to parse a legal code in its native format, or it can parse a prescribed XML format.

Code for Nerima

Nerima City, Tokyo, Japan

The Code for Japan Brigade based in Nerima-ku, Tokyo

Single Stop

Single Stop brings together America's most effective anti-poverty tools to create economic mobility for families and individuals.

No poverty

Assessing Civic Tech: Additional Tools & Resources

Boston, MA

We have compiled and organized more detailed information on specific topics to help operationalize recommendations in the guides and provide links to useful articles, examples and existing evaluation reports we found in our research.

OpenSpending

London

A free, open and global platform to search, visualise and analyse fiscal data in the public sphere.

Museum Stat

Connecting Museums and Communities

Principles for government service design

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Lou Downe, Director of Design and Service Standards for the UK Government opens #ServicesWeek 2019

Data Justice Lab

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data

Listenr

Omegle meets politics. Listenr connects people with opposing political views anonymously through existing messengers (currently FB messenger).

Evote (2017)

Let's change the feedback game

apps

The MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth

Our Mission is to empower people through inclusive economies by conducting & supporting various academic research & strategic philanthropic investments.

Code for Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads, Virginia

Public access and participation in the digital age, by and with the people of Hampton Roads, Virginia

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people.

Visual Town Budget

Arlington, MA

Open-source budget visualization framework

Sunlight Foundation

Washington, DC

The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

Public engagement toolkit

Effective public engagement is not easy to achieve. This roadmap helps organizations get to where they want to go.

Uliza Wakili LLP

Nairobi

Uliza Wakili LLP aims to provide low-cost alternative dispute resolution and legal advice to SMEs and startups.

Mapping LA

Los Angeles, CA

This regional view is your portal to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unincorporated places and 114 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles.