Civic Tech Field Guide

Auglinn

Wilmington, DE

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

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Media Diversity Institute (MDI) works internationally to promote accurate and nuanced reporting on issues of race, religion, ethnicity, class, disability, gender and sexual identity in media landscapes around the world.

Karachi Chal

Karachi

Your AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.

CivTech Scotland

Scotland

CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.

Rewiring America

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities.

The Atlas of Urban Tech

Cornell Tech

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

Portable Network Kits

New York City, NY, USA

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

U_Code

Dresden

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

Design Trust for Public Space

New York City

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

Design

Public AI Network

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

Chicago IT Strategy

Chicago, IL

Technology plan for the City of Chicago

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Gen-AI for Local Governments

444 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USA

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

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Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America

Cambridge, MA

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

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World Health Organization Innovation hub

Geneva, Switzerland

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

Good health and well-being

Innovation teams and labs

Recommended Actions for Online Platforms to Improve Human Rights Defender Protection

Washington, DC

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

Street Activity Sensors

New York City

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

NYC Funds Tracker

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO)

New York City

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

Open government data

Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring

New York City

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

CoreData.nyc

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

Data visualization

Spatial Equity NYC

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

Riding Forward: Overhauling Citi Bike’s Contract for Better, More Equitable Service

New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

Equitable Community Engagement Toolkit

Philadelphia

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

city

Planning for Informality

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

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

CivicSearch

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

local

News Ambassadors

Florida

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

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Design Action Research with Government

1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA, United States

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

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GovernmentJobs

California

City, State, Federal & Public Sector Jobs

Common Knowledge

London

We use technology to help social movements build power

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Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

United States of America (the)

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

219 W 40th St

At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.

AI Democracy Projects

Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

Civic Engagement Scorecard

Washington, DC

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

Democracy Innovations for Better Public Meetings

Washington, DC

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

Cities and Digital Human Rights

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

Laboratorio GovTech LATAM

Colombia

Una plataforma de innovación abierta que permite acercar nuevas soluciones digitales a los grandes retos de los municipios participantes.

Transport for London and Google Maps collaborate to make cycling better

London

Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure

Innovate Project Project Use Cases

London

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

Smart Cities and sensors

The Planning London Datahub

London

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.