Civic Tech Field Guide

Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation

Europe

This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world

books

Urban Ocean Lab

San Francisco

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Red Hook Initiative

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

local

Community wifi

digisec.directory

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

The Digital Security Community Directory of security and safety resources available in various Southeast Asian languages

A Rede de Autarquias Participativas pretende ser uma estrutura colaborativa que congrega todas as autarquias portuguesas comprometidas com o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de democracia participativa a nível local.

EngageMedia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.

EngageMedia Digital Rights program

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

MyCandidate Nigeria

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

The Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship

Our democracy tech entrepreneurs fellows are selected from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, which all live in the menacing shadow of Russia.

Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

Facebook

Adobe Firefly

San Jose, California, USA

Adobe's creative generative AI engine

Adobe

International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

Alliance of Democracies

Brussels

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

Participatory democracy

Newsgradient

Ljubljana

Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

Stop Your Government

Ljubljana

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

Obljuba dela dolg

Ljubljana

Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.

Open Supply Hub

United States of America (the)

Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.

supply chain

Watchdogging and transparency

PartyParty

Berlin

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

Disclosure logs: a best practice guide for local authorities [in the UK]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

guides

All Things Urban

Berlin

We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance

New York City

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

Data in the ATL

Georgia (US state)

PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.

CodeWhisperer

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Code assistant

Revoldiv

Transcribe Edit video and audio

GitHub Copilot

Code assistant

INTRVL

United States of America (the)

Audience targeting, Response analysis

AutoGPT

Multi-prompt chatbots

Consensus

Summarize research

Measure Studio

Analyze social content performance

Midjourney

Text to image

Superimage

Upscale images

Liveform

Intelligent agents

Unitary

Content moderation

21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act

Washington, DC

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”