Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Participatory budgeting

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

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.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

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

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Tinfoil is a place where we can talk about digital security, privacy, and journalism.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

NowPow connects people to high quality community resources to help address their chronic health and social conditions or just stay well.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Government transparency

Texting large volumes of potential voters is possible while remaining compliant with TCPA rules thanks to new technology.

• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS
• Email campaign tools

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

#JeSuisAnas seeks to teach, collaborate and work with engaged citizens across Ghana to impact society in a progressive way. An online platform that allows users to record and upload videos of everyday corruption

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

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

• city
• streetscape
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Flying High is a collaborative engagement with cities, technologists and researchers, regulators, government, public services and citizens to shape the future of urban drone use in the UK to meet local needs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.

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

A Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice

• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

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

• city
• reports
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

With support from the NetGain Partnership, researchers J. Nathan Matias and Sarah Gilbert from CAT Lab and Jo Lukito from the Center for Media Engagement at University of Texas Austin produced two reports that detail the challenges faced by independent researchers who conduct platform research, and provide recommendations for how to overcome them.

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

The first effort to monitor the performance of Iran’s parliament, often referred to as “Majlis”

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Design
• Election administration

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• Courses
• Innovation teams and labs
• Playbooks and design principles

City of Austin, TX program

• city

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

How emerging technologies are applied to journalism

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

We are civic tech collaboration that partners with the community to design technology-driven programs and services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

The home for civic tech in New York City

• CTFG partners

• Hubs

MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

• Solutions journalism

Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.

• No poverty
• Reduced inequalities

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

• The People
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exercise their fundamental human rights online.

• free speech

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easily-digested information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Code With Aloha is a volunteer group of developers, designers, project managers, and community members who gather to work on civic projects that help the community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization
• Digital participation platforms

The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Digital literacy
• Hardware

Code for Orlando is a community searching for technological solutions to social challenges.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Holidays

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• city
• urban planning
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups