Civic Tech Field Guide

Civil Service Strong

Resources for Civil Servants

Project 2025

Department of People who Work for a Living

Washington, DC

We’ll be ensuring the federal government works for working people and isn’t destroyed by billionaires like Elon Musk. We’ll report on the facts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts and what you can do to fight back.

Feds Work for You (@fedsworkforyou) Instagram

United States of America (the)

We make America work. Federal workers working for you.

Hedging for Sustainability: Twenty Revenue Streams for Democracy, Rights, and Governance Non-Governmental Organizations

Washington, DC

NGOs in the democracy, rights, and governance space are facing unprecedented cuts to their funding. This blog explores new revenue streams to help them continue their critical work.

Get funding

Friends of USAID

United States of America (the)

Organizing effort to fight for the life of USAID, including an instagram account with over 50,000 followers

Global Aid Freeze Tracker

These are the results of a survey measuring the impact on organizations across the world affected by the US Government aid freeze.

Project 2025

Projects interrupted when 18F was disbanded

United States of America (the)

An overview of the projects that were terminated when the Trump Administration disbanded 18F

Project 2025

Alt 18F

United States of America (the)

We’re dedicated to the American public. And we’re not done yet.

USAID Resource Hub

United States of America (the)

A centralized resource hub/database designed to support nonprofit and development professionals, organizations, and advocates navigating the impacts of the USAID shutdown—and beyond.

USAID Stop-Work

Cincinnati, Ohio

Tracking. Informing.

RestoredCDC.org

United States of America (the)

An archival version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website as of January 6, 2025

USAID Impact Stories

United States of America (the)

A public Google Drive folder with USAID photos, social media cards, interview transcripts, and reports

Project 2025

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

"An official website of the United States government" but mostly an embedded X feed

Project 2025

Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS)

Paris, France

The first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.

Negative Vote and Balanced Ballot

California

Giving voters the option to vote NO in all elections can improve all democracies

Federal Environmental Web Tracker

United States of America (the)

EDGI’s website monitoring team is monitoring thousands of federal government webpages to track changes under the Trump administration.

Watchdogging and transparency

Civic Match

United States of America (the)

Connecting top public sector talent with essential local government jobs.

Project 2025

Porticus

Amsterdam

Since 1995, we've coordinated the philanthropic endeavours founded by the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841.

How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?

Ontario

Ever wonder, “How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?” If so, check out this new research from the Canadian Digital Service! It includes 5 case studies of partnerships between the Canadian government and civic tech groups, plus tools to assess if civic tech might be a good partner for a government initiative. Find it here: https://digital.canada.ca/2025/01/23/how-can-civic-tech-help-improve-government-service-delivery/

reports

We the Builders

Washington, DC

Here, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.

Project 2025

The Astral Codex Ten Prediction Contest is back with an expanded $10,000 prize pool, allowing forecasters to test their skills across geopolitics, technology, economics, and more. The contest is hosted by Scott Alexander and Metaculus, and is open for sub

The Astral Codex Ten Prediction Contest is back with an expanded $10,000 prize pool, allowing forecasters to test their skills across geopolitics, technology, economics, and more

Automating School Surveillance: How Student Vape Detection Technologies Threaten to Expand the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Minnesota and Beyond

Minneapolis

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

The Public Sector Frameworks Report

The 2025 Public Sector Frameworks Report provides a comprehensive overview of how framework agreements are being used across the UK public sector, covering central government, local government, NHS, and education

In 2024, the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development user group marked its fifth year, advancing sustainability within the Wikimedia movement through active participation in meetings, events, and communications. The group focused on mapping SDG-related co

In 2024, the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development user group marked its fifth year, advancing sustainability within the Wikimedia movement through active participation in meetings, events, and communications

This event at the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring together a panel of LSE researchers to discuss the key outcomes and implications of the many elections that took place around the world in the past year. The panel will explore

This event at the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring together a panel of LSE researchers to discuss the key outcomes and implications of the many elections that took place around the world in the past year

Restore the Gulf of Mexico

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

TeslaTakedown

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

Project 2025

Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ | The Verge

Project 2025

CARE International

CARE is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Facebook Community Forums on AI

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

We partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.

Meta

Making TikTok, tick

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

Civil Service Strong

People, organizations, and communities across the country are joining together to ensure our civil servants have resources if they are targeted or attacked.

Project 2025

Civic Innovation Fund (CIF)

Bonn, Germany

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

teachers & educators

FedNews subReddit

News, Information, & Discussion for Federal Employees

Spinoza

The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.

Arab Reporters For Investigative Journalism - AI Speaks Arabic

ARIJ has developed its AI strategy to serve as a reference and comprehensive map for small and medium-sized Arab press organizations to employ modern technologies and tools to improve journalistic production

Quality education

Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool

Washington, DC

Census tracts that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution are highlighted as being disadvantaged on the map. Shut down by the Trump Administration in 2025.

Parlex and Lex

10 Downing Street

Equipping policy makers and researchers with AI-driven tools to explore legislation, analyse parliamentary developments, and empowering them in the policy making process.

United Kingdom (government)

Scout (GOV.UK)

10 Downing Street

An AI-powered tool that improves government major project delivery by automatically analysing thousands of documents to help detect problems earlier, enabling timely interventions that keep critical projects on track.

United Kingdom (government)

Consult (Gov.UK)

10 Downing Street

Consult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.

United Kingdom (government)

ReproductiveRights.gov

Washington, DC

An official website of the Department of Health and Human Services, shut down by the Trump Administration in 2025

Cluso

London

Voice survey tool to increase public engagement

Softening Online Extremes Using Network Engineering

AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Google DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.