It refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Google shares aggregate location data with public officials to show where stay-in-place orders are being followed

• civic features
• mobility

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

Our mission is to monitor changes to government websites, holding our government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to Web resources, as well as changes in stated policies and priorities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государственных средств.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides
• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Better walking, biking, and transit

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• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.

• partisan

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• Research and policy centers

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

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.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

• harassment
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Using the Whole Whale Podcast has been covering stories of marketing and technology since 2014 reaching over 4,000 nonprofit professionals a week.

• podcasts

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• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots

• g0v

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Generation Citizen believes all students have the right to civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• city

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Transcripts of public meetings should be easy to find, search or share

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Find the elected officials and electoral districts for any Canadian address or postal code, at all levels of government

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places

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• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

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

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• Open knowledge

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

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

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.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

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.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

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

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• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Connecting Museums and Communities

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• Data science for social good

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Katere projekte je izvajala država v letu 2015

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Each week we’ll examine a particular example of data use in government.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

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• Defining the field

Explore multimodal transportation in Washington D.C. through rich interactive data visualizations.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

OParl. Mehr Transparenz für Ihre Kommune.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The smart governance platform for cities and towns. Wir ermöglichen Entscheidungsträgern in Städten und Gemeinden, datengetrieben zu steuern.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Digital Woman Uganda is a Civic-tech and Digital Rights Advocacy organization – operating an ICT powered model to extend the literacy and skills of an eco-system economy that the world currently operates in to a woman/ girl child

Business intelligence for the public sector

• Civic and social impact companies

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism