Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Weil Transparenz Vertrauen schafft

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact

At Nava, we work with government agencies to provide digital services that are simple, accessible, and effective for all. Now, a supermajority of eligible employees have come together to form our union, Nava United, which is affiliated with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Tech Workers Union Local 1010.

• labor

• Civic tech unions

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Books

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. Headquartered in Barcelona, the organisation’s stated mission is: "To be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community."

"I WATCH" is a non-profit and independent Tunisian watchdog organisation that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency.

Was "a community of non-profit, IT, and media organizations that use technology for better transparency, accountability, and governance in the Central and Eastern Europe region."

• Graveyard
• Civic apps outfits

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

Clothes that say "VOTE" on them

• Merchandise

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

"Democracy as a service" voting app

• apps

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Civic features

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

"A collaboration among several street artists and Carol Ott, proprietor of the Baltimore Slumlord Watch blog, the group has painted murals on about a dozen vacant buildings in the city so far this summer."

• housing

• Artistic interventions

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

Founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, Unfinished "works to strengthen our civic life in the digital age."

• Decentralization

"TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008." (Wikipedia)

• Graveyard
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

• public space

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Communicating with the people

IDEO brings together technologists and social innovators to imagine new uses for these “flying helpers"

• Drones

Crowdfunding Incredible Muslims

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This map shows the combined areas forming a 10-minute "walkshed" around NYC's 470 subway stations.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

"Google.org and Boulder, Colorado, are teaming up to create a new eligibility calculator, which residents of that city will be able to use to determine if they qualify for public programs, discounts or rebates"

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

رسمیو(لیلاک سابق) موتور جستجوی اشخاص و شرکت‌ها است که بر مبنای آگهی‌های روزنامه رسمی کشور ایجاد شده است. رسمیو با تحلیل روزنامه رسمی کشور و ایجاد خروجی معنادار، دسترسی به اطلاعات شرکت‌های ایرانی را راحت کرده است.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Advertising

Promoting innovation and data literacy through a premier center of excellence

• trainings

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Foundational layers

Ted Cruz's official presidential campaign app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

More Donations. Less Work. Right Now.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

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

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Now GovEx

• research
• trainings

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

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Mapping
• Civic maps