Civic Tech Field Guide
Sharing knowledge and productively growing the fieldSearch 8838 projects
Showing 74 Results
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.
Oxford Insights
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandWe make technology work for the public good
Mission Metrics
Oakland, CaliforniaWhen founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.
Impact Tracker
OhioThe IA Impact Tracker is a digital platform to help news organizations, funders, and other stakeholders understand the impact of journalism by defining, measuring, and tracking real world change.
Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change
United States of America (the)Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.
Cheeri IMM
Hong KongBy making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.
The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.
Suomi.fi Quality Tools
Finland (Suomi)Finnish government tools to make it easy for government offices to assess and improve upon their digital service delivery
How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?
Iguala
Madrid (Spain)IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.
A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered
IDinsight
AfricaIDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.
The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.
A series of articles interrogating the concept of rigor in the context of impact evaluation in our work, by Keira Lowther
Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."
Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.
The data analytics platform for impact-driven organizations.
The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.
Digital Maturity Indicator
Melbourne VIC, AustraliaThe Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.
By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.
AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.
A platform to help social good outfits import, visualize, and analyze impact data
Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.
We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.
A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
"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."
Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandResearch into whether legislation achieved its policy goals
The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.
A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.
Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement: A Practical Guide
Brazil (Brasil)A World Bank working paper (2016)
A project to create an index of democratic quality
Candid
32 Old Slip, 24th Floor New York, NY 10005Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."
Citizengage
1110 Vermont Ave NW Washington D.C. 20005Discover how citizens and governments are coming together around the world and how you can join them.
What Works Cities Certification
United States of America (the)WHAT WORKS CITIES CERTIFICATION IS THE NATIONAL STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR WELL-MANAGED, DATA-DRIVEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.
Our mission is to empower changemakers and innovators to solve large-scale social problems — strategically and conclusively. We are world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges.
An Evaluation of Digital Gaming Platforms on Civic Capacity and Collective Action in the Boston Public School District
Make more confident decisions using the best available evidence for homelessness interventions
Topl
708 Main street, Houston, TX, USAWe're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .
We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.
The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch. In this dynamic environment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been a field leader, investing over $25 million since 2010 in projects […]
Get email updates
Helpful Links
Reach Out
A project of
With support from
National Endowment for Democracy
Founding Organization
Civic Hall
Technology partner
Civic Tech Field Guide