Civic Tech Field Guide

Deep-linking youth

Europe

The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.

youth

Immaginazione Civica

Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 Bologna

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

Tracka

55 Moleye Street, Lagos, Nigeria

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

Sensors.AFRICA

Nairobi

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

SMS for Justice

India (Bhārat)

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

criminal justice

covid19italia.help

Rome

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

Citizinvestor

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

Electionland

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

Blockchange

2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

Easy Voter Guide – California

The aim of the Easy Voter Guide project is to make nonpartisan information about why vote, how to vote and what’s on the ballot accessible to as many

Tech Kontra Wirus

Poland (Polska)

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

g0v Hong Kong

Hong Kong

g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

BU Technology & Cyberlaw clinic

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

Popit

Malaysia

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

Community Approach to Research Partnerships @ Emerson

Emerson College, Boylston Street, Boston, MA, USA

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

Majlis Monitor

Islamic Republic of Iran (Īrān)

The first effort to monitor the performance of Iran’s parliament, often referred to as “Majlis”

Data Science for Social Good, UChicago

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

The State of Satellites

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

Self-fabricated Face Shields

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

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.

Open Seattle

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Open Seattle advocates for open data and civic technology projects that improve the lives of Seattle residents.

G0vhk.io Hackathon

Eaton Hotel Hong Kong, Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects

CoVIg-19 Plasma Bot

Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones

Microsoft

Crowdin

Crowdin is a localization project management platfom and translation tool for developers and website owners. We make it easy to work with content being translated using our collaboration platform.

PeaceTech Living Learning Community

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

This Place Will Be Water

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

Citywide

Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.

Detect study

Leverages opt-in wearables health data to try to predict the spread of the pandemic

Hack League

Brooklyn, NY

Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.

youth

AfricanSpending

Africa

How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions

CHVote

Geneva, Switzerland

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

Draw the Lines PA

Pennsylvania

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

gerrymandering

Factcheck.org

Washington, DC

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

Delta.NYC

Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.

City Scrapers

Chicago, IL

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.