[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bots
• Reports

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• Mapping
• Books

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment. Town+Gown is also an open platform research program that uses service (experiential) learning and faculty-directed research to facilitate partnerships between academics and practitioners on applied built environment research projects through the collaborative inquiry model of systemic action research.  

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Aventura Investment Partners was founded in 2010, with the goal of establishing, investing in, and supporting companies that provide value chain services to smallholder growers in Africa. Aventura target companies that provide a range of services in the Input Supply, Production or Post-Harvest phases of the Value Chain.

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information is a non-governmental organisation aiming to facilitate democratic governance in Georgia and abroad by informing and empowering the public. In 2010, IDFI launched a public information platform (Opendata.ge) through which thousands of FoI requests have been submitted to state institutions.

In 2010, Paweł Reszka, Wojciech Cieśla, Michał Majewski and Roman Daszczyński got together to support journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries and created Fundacja Reporterów – the Reporters Foundation, one of the first journalistic NGO’s in Poland. In 2010 they decided to help journalists from various post-soviet countries, from Ukraine to Azerbaijan. For the first few years they trained people, among those who joined the Foundation’s projects are leading journalists in their countries (Kristina Berdinskich, Anna Babiniec, Dymitr Gnap) who have worked on well-known publications, such as the award-winning Yanukovych Leaks project.

The Right2Know Campaign launched in August 2010 and has grown into a movement centred on freedom of expression and access to information. It is a democratic, activist-driven campaign that strengthens and unites citizens to raise public awareness, mobilise communities and undertake research and targeted advocacy that aims to ensure the free flow of information necessary to meet people’s social, economic, political and ecological needs and live free from want, in equality and in dignity.

Metta and Nest is a global partner for corporates, governments and entrepreneurs on their innovation journeys. Hatched in 2010, we create collaborative environments that help corporates, startups, and our investors scale and succeed.

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

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Qriously has reimagined polling through the use of programmatic survey methodology and has achieved far more representative and accurate samples than traditional polling.

• Surveys & polling

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Mapping
• Open civic data
• Civic maps

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics was formed in 2010 as one of the first municipal innovation offices in the world. Our research and design projects tackle a range of topics — from civic engagement to city infrastructure to education. Our team comes from a diverse array of backgrounds and our work comes in many different flavors.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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 […]

• The People
• Evaluate impact

OpenBlock is a web application and RESTful service that allows users to browse and search their local area for "hyper-local news

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• The People
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Find social services that serve your area, anywhere in the US.

• Access social benefits

Today, Seabourne is advancing the state of the art for data integration, consolidation, and visualization tools.

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms