Civic Tech Field Guide

Caught in the Web (CitW)

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Caught in the Web (CitW) is a 26 month initiative supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office United Kingdom where Search for Common Ground, Hashtag Generation, and Centre for Equality and Justice work as a consortium to advance effective responses to gendered online hate speech and cyber sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lanka.

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding

Colombo, Sri Lanka

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding is a Search for Common Ground Sri Lanka project to establish a digital learning, networking, mentorship, and professional development platform for youth (ages 18-29) interested in addressing online dangerous hate speech.

#GotaGoGama

Sri Lanka

#GotaGoHome: The hashtag that defined Sri Lanka’s revolution

The Project AISLE

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

Project AISLE is a hate speech monitoring tool in Tamil and Sinhala developed using Artificial Intelligence.

hate speech

Search for Common Ground

Brussels

Since 1982, Search for Common Ground has been building peace, transforming societies, and using innovative tools to end violent conflict around the world.

Digital peacebuilding

Digital Wellbeing Initiative

Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Digital Wellbeing Initiative in Sri Lanka is a project that collaborates with youth, technology professionals, artists, and policymakers to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the digital landscape with skill and intellect and find a balance between the promise of technology and their personal well-being.

Dreamspace Academy

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

DreamSpace Academy is a social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges through challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation and impact venture building.

Digital Community Stewards Online Course

Brussels

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

Lever for Change

Lever for Change connects donors with problem solvers to find and fund bold, effective solutions to accelerate social change.

Certified Public Participation Professional

Denver

Professional certification for public participation professionals offered by IAP2 USA

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Indonesia

Jakarta

IAP2 adalah asosiasi anggota internasional yang mempromosikan dan meningkatkan praktik partisipasi publik atau pelibatan masyarakat, yang menggabungkan individu, pemerintah, lembaga, dan entitas lain yang memengaruhi kepentingan publik di seluruh dunia.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Hypha

Hypha is an open source submission management platform to receive and manage applications for funding.

Tools for Funders

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia

Australia

As the peak body for the community and stakeholder engagement sector, IAP2 Australasia, believes that engagement, when done well, improves environmental, social and governance outcomes and increases trust in the democratic process.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) USA

Denver

IAP2 USA is a nationwide organization that leads, advances and advocates for best practices in public participation. It is a home and community for people who believe good decisions can be made together.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Latinoamérica

Latin America

Nace como una forma de contribuir a desplegar las habilidades y competencias necesarias en personas y agrupaciones de diversa índole que desean ser protagonistas de la construcción del futuro para sus comunidades, territorios y países.

Technology Modernization Fund

GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

We drive modernization in federal IT that better serves agencies and the American public.

United States (federal government)

Core Values Awards

Denver

IAP2 program celebrating excellence in public participation

Promoting Responsible Evaluation and Procurement to Advance Readiness for Enterprise-wide Deployment (PREPARED) for AI Act

S.4495 - A bill to enable safe, responsible, and agile procurement, development, and use of artificial intelligence by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

AI Policy Hub

Berkeley, CA, USA

The AI Policy Hub is an interdisciplinary initiative that trains researchers to develop effective governance and policy frameworks to guide artificial intelligence, with a goal to help policymakers and other AI decision-makers act with foresight.

IAP2 Training Programs

Denver

IAP2 carries out its mission to advance and extend the practice of public participation by organizing and conducting professional development activities to serve the learning needs of members.

trainings

Participatory democracy

Fairness Without Categories: Enabling Collective Action for Algorithmic Accountability

Berkeley, CA, USA

This project [by Jessica Dai], in collaboration with Deb Raji, explores designing a framework for the general public to report and contest large-scale harms from algorithmic decision making systems (ADS).

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) South Africa

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

Promoting excellence in public participation in Southern Africa

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

Denver

Our mission is to promote and advance public participation / community engagement globally through targeted initiatives that are guided by culturally adaptive standards of practice and core values.

PointNorth Consulting

527 Explorer

United States of America (the)

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

Karachi Chal

Karachi

Your AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.

AI in grantmaking peer group meeting

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI.

Querido Diário

Brazil (Brasil)

Diários oficiais dos municípios brasileiros em formato aberto para a livre consulta da sociedade civil.

Data For Crisis

Tallinn

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to public data

UNHCR

the UN Refugee Agency

SocialLab

Tallinn

Innovative Intelligence for Social Good

The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking

Washington state, USA

Paper by ROBERT WOLFE and TANUSHREE MITRA, University of Washington, United States

Chat for GenAI Accelerator '24

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

Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility.

WhatsApp

kidmapping

Kidmapping is an information resource for parents, human rights activists, volunteers and activists. Here you can find information about all kinds of locations of deported children in Russia, Belarus or occupied regions of Ukraine.

Bocoup

Massachusetts

We partner with tech companies, nonprofits, and other institutions on projects that promote a more just digital landscape for all users.

FloodLight

Pakistan

A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

floods

form-extractor-prototype

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

A prototype tool that extracts the structure of a form from an image or PDF and generates a multi-page web form in the GOV.UK schema. by @timpaul

Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA)

Taipei City, Taiwan

The moda is committed to promoting suitable digital tools and open mindsets through building resilience and co-creation, powering Taiwan’s shift from a digital island to a global model of digital democracy and innovation.

Privacy Stack

Massachusetts

An open source starter app that comes with user accounts that include: data access, do not sell, data deletion, undo sign up, and other features.

Voices of Venezuela

Colombia

Voices of Venezuela fue creado para construir un puente de entendimiento entre culturas, para combatir la xenofobia y mostrarle al mundo que los venezolanos contribuyen a sus comunidades de acogida, permitiendo que todos prosperen. Website is down but social media is active.

Civic Technology Collaboration

Taipei City, Taiwan

Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.

UNHCR chatbots

To help build a better future for refugees, UNHCR’s chat services suit their preferences, meet their needs, and safeguard their data

100 Days Of AI

Learn AI skills in 100 days with daily bitesized lessons.

Test

Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We are a charity helping organisations use digital for social good

Democracy Network (Taiwan)

Taipei City, Taiwan

Connecting the international community’s and Taiwan’s digital development and democratic governance experiences, leveraging the power of democracy networks to promote civic technology and decentralized autonomy, enhancing network development digital resilience.