Civic Tech Field Guide

I am in the city / 我地.市正

Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Neighborhood forum //「我地.市正」(Ourland Searching) 係一個街坊媒體。用家可以查詢即時位置或選擇位置附近 1 公里內發生的社區事件: 公共設施社區活動社區議題街坊可以隨時隨地「報料」: 匯報社區問題，仲可以一直跟進事態發展。

COVID19.NYC

A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.

GovTrack.us

United States Capitol

Tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

Schema.org

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

Data schemas and standards

Transit.land

Bay Area, CA, USA

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

Outside.in

Outside.in is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore information.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

publiccode.yml

Rome

A metadata description standard for public software

Memory.ai

Time management tools Dewo and Timely

Charles F. Kettering Foundation

Belisar.io

A bot of legislative proximity that seeks to promote communication between government and citizens through artificial intelligence.

Wahlkabine.at

Austria (Österreich)

Österreichs erfolgreichste Politik-Orientierungshilfe im Internet

Odkazprestarostu.sk

Nahláste problém z vášho okolia a sledujte jeho riešenie v súčinnosti s miestnou samosprávou.

Participation 2.0? Crowdsourcing Participatory Development @ DFID

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.

research

GOOD.is

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

Fakenews.rs

Reported.ly

Reported.ly wrapped up in August 2016 but during its brief yet impactful run, its international team of journalists surfaced breaking news and reported on human rights and social justice issues through the expansive lens of social media.

HousingMaps.com

HousingMaps was the very first Google Maps mashup, created before there was a Google Maps API. It overlaid Craigslist apartment and housing listings on a map, for some 30 US cities plus London.

housing

Cuidando.org

Información y Recursos para pacientes

If.Then.Fund

Washington, DC

Donate to politicians who vote for the issues you care about—and the opponents of the ones who don’t.

Areyousafe.work

An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace

labor

U.S. Digital Response

United States of America (the)

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

Botcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

We use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.

Factcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

Factcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.

Democracy.io

Berlin

To promote charitable projects that want to implement an innovative digital idea to strengthen our democracy.

Deeba.se

The U.S. Digital Services Playbook

United States of America (the)

The American people expect to interact with government through digital channels such as websites, email, and mobile applications. By building digital services that meet their needs, we can make the delivery of our policy and programs more effective.

Playbooks and design principles

The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis

Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

a map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press

reports

Consider.it

Portland, OR

A web forum that elevates your community's opinions. Civil and organized discussion even when hundreds of stakeholders participate.

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Gov.uk Digital Marketplace

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

Congress.gov

United States Capitol

U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

Challenge.gov

United States of America (the)

InternetGovernment.org

The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.

Hayden.ai

2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse Berkeley, CA 94704, USA

Artificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities

mobility

E-Democracy.org Local forums

ChicagoCrime.org

Chicago, IL

A freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago.

crime

eCitizens.org

We’ll index local government, committee, department, commission and school boards agendas, minutes, budgets and myriad other documents municipalities must publish by law as well as those they may be posting voluntarily.

civic.json

A specification of the civic.json metadata standard for civic technology projects

Standards.data.gov.uk

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Shared, open cross-government standards make services better for users and cheaper to run.

Jarokelo.hu

Hungary (Magyarország)

Report street-fixing issues in Hungary

PLP 2.0

Brazil (Brasil)

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence. Users feeling threatened bya former or current partner can use the app to report the issue to the police. The app allows a user to contact thepolice by using the phone’s power button. The police receives an alert as well as the GPS location of the user at risk offacing abuse.

Google.org

United States of America (the)

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.