Civic Tech Field Guide

Vote411

1730 M Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20036, USA

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

US Election 2020

Perimeter

Bay Area, CA, USA

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

apps
fires

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

Rootscamp

Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Mount Vernon Place Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

partisan

Conferences

Greenpeace Kit Kat

Indonesia

A big 'Thank You!' to the hundreds of thousands of you who supported our two-month Kit Kat campaign by e-mailing Nestlé, calling them, or spreading the campaign message via your Facebook, Twitter and other social media profiles

Transit Tech Lab

New York City

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

Chileleaks

Santiago, Chile

Safe and anonymous platform for whistleblowing in Chile

Dial Power

Oakland, California

DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE

Streetmix

Philadelphia

Civic engagement for street design

mobility

PERSONAL DATA: POLITICAL PERSUASION

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

Crisis Text Line

DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NY, USA

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

Data & Policy Journal

Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

ARTIFICE

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

films

CurbLR

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

Textizen

Bay Area, CA, USA

Textizen is a mobile platform dedicated to connecting difficult-to-reach audiences with the public institutions that serve them in scalable, efficient ways.

youth

The Future of Cities handbook

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

Gathering Residents to Improve Technology (GRIT)

Toronto

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

Community Approach to Research Partnerships @ Emerson

Emerson College, Boylston Street, Boston, MA, USA

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

Center for Civic Design

78 Washington Ave, High Bridge, NJ 08829, USA

Democracy is a design problem

US Election 2020

Open Web Fellowship

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

Ghent Open Data Portal

Ghent, Belgium

Open Data portal for the City of Ghent

Article One

Washington, DC

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

Center For Political Beauty

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

Fondo Nazionale Innovazione

Via Molise, 2 Rome

A 1 billion euro national innovation fund

Civicwise

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

Data Murals

MIT Media Lab

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

New York Public Library Lab

New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

NYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's knowledge for the Internet age.

libraries

Hate speech: measures and counter-measures

96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

Online & Underground

Internet access in major global subway networks

Mind My Business

Your business is your livelihood and your reputation. Mind My Business™ sent you customized notifications to help you make more informed decisions that save you time and money.

apps

HatchLab Innovation Studio

United States of America (the)

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

workshops

Granicus

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

Mutante

Bogotà D.C., Carrera 7, Bogota, Colombia

A tool that shows how MPs use Twitter

One Concern

Menlo Park, California, United States

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

Managing uncertainty in government modelling

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

SIM|ED

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

Omidyar Network

1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

Every Voice Engaged

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

AskThem

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

questions-and-answers with elected officials, candidates, media, and more public figures

Discovery Sprints

Washington, DC

A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.

GSBI Online

Santa Clara Station, Railroad Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, USA

GSBI Online Accelerator provides transformative mentorship, for transformative impact

Vota Inteligente

Santiago, Chile

The election is ours

Digital Sherlocks 360/OS

RoundhouseChalk Farm Rd, Camden Town, London NW1 8EH, UK

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.