Civic Tech Field Guide
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Digital Democracy and Data Commons pilot
BarcelonaDECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.
Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
Pulse
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CACommunicate your stance on issues you care about directly to your congressperson
Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.
The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.
BuildUp
CaliforniaWe transform conflict in the digital age
Bill To Text
United States of America 🇺🇸BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FLThe International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.
Thinking about GovTech: A brief guide for policymakers
53 Milverton Road, London, UK(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.
Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f
Network for Good
United States of America 🇺🇸Refreshingly easy-to-use fundraising software and tools for nonprofits looking for a complete fundraising solution to support their mission. Cultivate donor relationships and generate new supporters, while saving time and raising more money. Network for Good makes fundraising simple for you.
OpenGov ERP
Washington, DCOpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential.
The Digital Matatus Project
Kenya 🇰🇪A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards
CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development
Library of Congress Machine Readable Cataloging
Washington, DCThe MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.
Volunteer with us and use your research, mapping and digital skills to support humanitarian agencies in crisis response.
PeopleMovers
671 Edison Street, Detroit, MIConnect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.
Format for exchanging static public transit information.
Collection of eIdentity and eSignature solutions
European Commission Rue Philippe le Bon 3 1000 Brussels BelgiumA resource from Joinup
Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.
For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.
Open-source platform for conducting verifiable, private online elections and audits used by organizations, schools, and clubs
Highrise
Canada 🇨🇦An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.
Assembl
ParisMassive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.
Jamnevisi
Tehran“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.
District Info NYC dashboard
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.
The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites
Before the Storm
Greeley Square Station 4 East 27th Street New York, NY 10001-9998A game of forecasts and action
Listening Post Collective
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DCThe Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.
Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.
Hyperion
76 4th St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33701Software for the annual homeless count
Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.
Froide
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪Froide is a Freedom Of Information Portal using Django 3.2 on Python 3.8+. It is used by the German and the Austrian FOI site, but it is fully internationalized and written in English.
Justice Tech Catalog
524 W 59th St BMW605, New York, NY 10019A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.
DataSketch
BogotáWith Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.
CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation
AmsterdamCONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation is a new organisation whose mission is to manage and continuously develop the largest open source digital democracy platform – CONSUL.
Peak Democracy
1900 Addison St, Berkeley, California 94704Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.
Atvirasteismas
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹The aim of the tool is to help Lithuanian citizens to understand how courts and judges work in their country. Transparency International chapter
Nava is a public benefit corporation creating software to improve how our government serves people.
Center for Tech and Civic Life
ChicagoModernizing engagement between local government and the people you serve
Marsad Majles
4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).
Code for New Orleans
New Orleans, LAJoin us in creating awareness of what our city provides for us and in creating new and creative solutions to problems we find.
14 immersive weeks of product development, punctuated by trips to Munich and Shenzhen. Learn more about what URBAN-X has to offer your early-stage comany.
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