Civic Tech Field Guide

Accountability Lab Mexico

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Accountability Lab Mexico is inspiring a national movement—led by civil society, on the ground, online and through the media—to celebrate, encourage and connect honest public servants.

Open civic organizations

California

Mission-minded people, powered by open, agile flow, joining together, learning from one another, building a better civic experience for the communities they serve.

GovFresh

California

GovFresh is a media and innovation lab working at the intersection of design, technology and government.

Panama’s Accelerator Lab is working to understand how strengthening solid waste management practices in rural municipalities can help create pathways to optimize national recycling strategies and work towards a circular economy.

Innovation teams and labs

Itsme

The Political Technologist

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

The Political Technologist is a multimedia publication that covers the latest developments and trends in the field of political technology, inviting the audience to collective sense-making with the editorial board as day-to-day events unfold in front of our eyes.

Newspeak House

Schema Labs

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

A non-profit building technology enhancing the public sector operating at the birthplace of democracy

Civic apps outfits

Consul Conference (Consulcon)

Gran Canaria

Consul

International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID)

FOSDEM

Brussels

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Open Government Partnership Asia and the Pacific

Washington, DC

Mapping USA

Open Source Journalism Conference

Crypto For Good Fund

Telegram Page Verification

Telegram offers verification for public figures and organizations so that users can easily identify official sources.

Telegram

Georgia's List

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Finding a job is harder than it should be. For some reason, I find out about lots of jobs, so I try to share them with others.

Telegram third-party verification

Telegram allows public figures and organizations to become verified, so users can quickly identify official sources of information. To further improve transparency on Telegram, official third-party services are now able to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats.

Telegram

Govset

govset is a modern schema specification for standardizing government records and public sector data

Democratic AI Series

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

In the Democratic AI series, Simon and Yung-Hsuan guide the audience to explore how various AI tools can foster healthy democratic deliberation and collective decision-making.

Newspeak House

OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Empowered.vote

Los Angeles

A non-profit civic platform designed to empower shared solutions.

What the Fed?

United States of America 🇺🇸

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

Neighborhood Explorer

Tulsa, OK

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

local

Dembrane

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

Dokopalsya!

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

Telegram

Naskvoz

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

Telegram

Centro de Pensamiento y Acción

Asunción, Paraguay

Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores y problemas estratégicos de la realidad nacional, definen e inciden, a partir de su trabajo en red, en la evaluación y formulación de políticas públicas».

Botswana Watch

Botswana 🇧🇼

People Powered

Kota Kita Foundation

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Academia Táva Apo

Asunción, Paraguay

Por segundo año consecutivo, y con el apoyo de la National Endowment For Democracy, culminamos exitosamente la Academia Táva Apo – Hacia el desarrollo local, programa de formación dirigido a líderes comunitarios y concejales electos.

trainings

Supporting public sector from outside government

Escuela Política y de Liderazgo Público

Asunción, Paraguay

La Escuela Política y de Liderazgo Público está conformada por Academias que buscan brindar herramientas personales, teóricas y prácticas a personas con vocación de servicio público interesadas en transformar su contexto.

trainings

Foundation for Rural Proletariat and Community Advancement

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Shared Future CIC

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Institute of Public Finance Kenya

Kenya 🇰🇪

People Powered

Participatory democracy

Trusted Messenger Program

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

PGP’s health care professional networks, health care professional training program, and its significant health communications infrastructure form one program: the Trusted Messenger Program.

Good health and well-being

“I always want to do good with my platform:” Evaluating Influencer Experiences Participating in PGP’s Influencer Programs

United States of America 🇺🇸

A survey composed of 21 questions designed to collect qualitative and quantitative data on influencers' experiences working with PGP and their respective influencer-led programs.