Civic Tech Field Guide

UNDP Panama Accelerator Lab

Panama City, Panama

Panama’s Accelerator Lab is working to understand how strengthening solid waste management practices in rural municipalities can help create pathways to optimize national recycling strategies and work towards a circular economy.

Innovation teams and labs

FranceConnect

Schema Labs

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

A non-profit building technology enhancing the public sector operating at the birthplace of democracy

Civic apps outfits

The Political Technologist

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

The Political Technologist is a multimedia publication that covers the latest developments and trends in the field of political technology, inviting the audience to collective sense-making with the editorial board as day-to-day events unfold in front of our eyes.

Newspeak House

International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID)

Crypto For Good Fund

Consul Conference (Consulcon)

Gran Canaria

Consul

Mapping USA

Open Source Journalism Conference

International Journalism Festival

Perugia, Italy

FOSDEM

Brussels

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Open Government Partnership Asia and the Pacific

Washington, DC

Democratic AI Series

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

In the Democratic AI series, Simon and Yung-Hsuan guide the audience to explore how various AI tools can foster healthy democratic deliberation and collective decision-making.

Newspeak House

Georgia's List

New York, NY

Finding a job is harder than it should be. For some reason, I find out about lots of jobs, so I try to share them with others.

Telegram Page Verification

Telegram offers verification for public figures and organizations so that users can easily identify official sources.

Telegram

Telegram third-party verification

Telegram allows public figures and organizations to become verified, so users can quickly identify official sources of information. To further improve transparency on Telegram, official third-party services are now able to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats.

Telegram

Govset

govset is a modern schema specification for standardizing government records and public sector data

OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Empowered.vote

Los Angeles, CA

A non-profit civic platform designed to empower shared solutions.

What the Fed?

United States of America (the)

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

Mutual Aid NYC

New York City, NY, USA

A network of neighborhood groups and network builders organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers.

Neighborhood Explorer

Tulsa, OK

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

local

Dembrane

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Dokopalsya!

Russian Federation (the)

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

Telegram

Naskvoz

Russian Federation (the)

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

Telegram

The World and China Institute

People Powered

Participatory democracy

ASSOAL

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Evaluation of an Influencer-Led Program to Increase Community Support for Harm Reduction Services in West Virginia

by Megan Leibensperger, Melissa Dunn Silesky, Caitlyn Gudmundsen, Erika Bonnevie :: SSRN

Alma Cívica

Asunción, Paraguay

Acerca y conecta a los mejores ciudadanos líderes con una política responsable, que actúan con compromiso y vocación por el bien común del Paraguay.

Great Cities Institute

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Laboratório de Políticas Públicas e Sociais (LAPPUS)

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Community Places - PB Works

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

Burnaby, Canada

We strengthen Canadian democracy by promoting democratic participation and innovation, spread best practices by providing dialogue training and tools, and help governments to engage citizens and stakeholders through our consulting services.