Civic Tech Field Guide

Count the Nation

Los Angeles, CA

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

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FEMA Community Alerting Protocol

United States of America (the)

This section contains information about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard that is used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings.

United States (federal government)

Jabar Digital Service

Jl. Diponegoro No.22, Citarum, Kec. Bandung Wetan, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40115

Jabar Digital Service (JDS) atau Unit Pelaksana Teknis Pengelola Layanan Digital, Data, dan Informasi Geospasial adalah sebuah unit di bawah Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika Provinsi Jawa Barat yang dicita-citakan dapat mempersempit kesenjangan digital, membantu efisiensi dan akurasi pengambilan kebijakan berbasis data dan teknologi, serta merevolusi pemakaian teknologi dalam kehidupan masyarakat serta pemerintahan di Jawa Barat.

ESRI

Esri's GIS mapping software is the most powerful mapping and spatial data analytics technology available. Unlock the full potential of your data and improve operational & business results with our location platform.

The Centers for Civic Impact @ Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University

Now GovEx

Spoke

The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

Open Up Contracting

Hivos Foundation, Grote Marktstraat, The Hague, Netherlands

A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

Washington, DC

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

Census Hard to Count Maps

United States of America (the)

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

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CiviCRM

San Francisco

CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team

Give Lively

We build better fundraising tech and give it away for free (seriously). Our products drastically improve the online giving experience and help 501(c)(3) nonprofits raise more for their causes.

Code for Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

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Amicus

Leading nonprofits, political campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy organizations rely on Amicus's digital organizing tools

Fast Forward

Fast Forward — Accelerating technology nonprofits. Fast Forward provides funding, training, mentorship, and community for tech-based nonprofits.

Enjambre

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

Transit Innovation Partnership

New York City

The Transit Innovation Partnership is a public-private initiative launched by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Partnership for New York City with the mission to make New York the global leader in public transit.

Public Private Partnerships

City of Cape Town Open Data Portal

Cape Town, South Africa

This portal makes available data on the City of Cape Town to increase transparency in its processes and actively involve residents and other stakeholders in local government, as well as promote economic opportunity.

Corporate Tax Tracker

Brussels

A tool to examine publicly available key financial data of the 20 largest European banks.

Change (change.org)

The world’s platform for change

Enexis Open Data Agenda

Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.

WeThePeople

The White House, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The original White House petition site

United States (federal government)

Work for LA

Los Angeles, CA

We want you to work for the City of Los Angeles. However, the process involved in getting a City Job can be a bit confusing. This site exists to help explain the process and help make it easier to pursue a public service career.

Code for Australia Wildlife Incidents and Emergencies

Victoria, Australia

A web application to connect the general public with the large network of shelters and rescue organisations when people run into wildlife in distress.

Dadeh

Islamic Republic of Iran (Īrān)

Visualizing Iran

Open Source Event Manager

Event management tailored for Free and Open Source community conferences.

Electome using Twitter firehose

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

X (Twitter)

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy: Data Tool

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy

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Gravyty First Draft

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

I am Vigilant

Tunisia (Tunis)

I am Vigilant" is a Tunisian, non-profit, and independent monitoring organization that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency

Code for Democracy

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

Policy Tracker (UK)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Tracks progress on all of the government’s manifesto promises, includes explainers and ways to get more involved.

Facebook Safety Check

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Crisis Response is a place on Facebook where you can find information about recent crises, use Safety Check to connect with friends and loved ones during a crisis, give or find help to people in the affected area, and create or donate to fundraisers to support recovery efforts.

Facebook

MapIt UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

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Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Welcome to the ORIGINAL channel of Resistencia, Venezuela Hasta los Tuétanos. It is an information room about the political, social, and economic situation that Venezuela is going through.

Fluicity (Efalia Engage)

4 Rue du Caire, 75002 Paris, France

Fluicity is a community engagement software for public and private entities

Coronavirus Print & Social Media Resources to help #StopTheSpread

Posters and social media resources for Canva users

print resources

Open Burkina

Burkina Faso (Burkina Faso)

Our mission is to support development actors to better collect, structure, use and open data, while respecting people's privacy and preserving the interests of the nation - through research, advocacy, training, tools and assistance

The Coral Project

The Coral Project is an open source project helping publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. Our main tool is Talk.

PesaCheck

East Africa

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.