This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses
• Academia

Code for Canada's job board

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

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• Newsletters

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
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• Civic tech catalogs

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics

• resources

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Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー

• Conferences

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Reading lists

Join a worldwide movement to catalog every open source civic tech project

• Github

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

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

The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative is a project of Living Cities, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, and Code for America that brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and local data intermediaries across seven communities.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

• The People
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• News and blogs

The Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.

• The People
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• Civic tech catalogs

Building relationships between government and citizens, and interested in how new technologies could enable better services, communication and accountability

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The People
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• Newsletters

The Civic Tech Innovation Network newsletter and online magazine is produced by the journalism and media lab, university of the witwatersrand, johannesburg

• The People
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• News and blogs

CivicTech4Democracy is the European Union’s global competition showcasing democratic innovation by Citizens for Citizens across the world. Every day, everywhere, citizens invent new ways of bringing democracy closer to the people.

• European Union

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Civic Tech Saint John is an open and inclusive forum for all Saint Johners to explore community issues with one another.

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

The list contains relevant articles for anyone interested in understanding the space of technological solutions to societal, governmental, and society-government interface problems.

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• Reading lists

A crowdsourced US timeline of civic tech as a field

• Predecessors

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Civic Tech Connect 2018 marked the official launch of the Civic Tech India 2018 Accelerator and brought together entrepreneurs and investors

• The People
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• In-person meetings

This site contains a list created by the Codeando México community and curated by different volunteers with knowledge of civic technology projects in Mexico.

• Civic tech catalogs

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech
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Find civic tech jobs and hire civic tech talent

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.

• racial equity

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• Peer networks
• Merchandise

We are Bingwa Civic Tech Lab, a youth-led initiative based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting technically the community and civil society organisations through co-creative and collaborative processes to implement digital solutions informing decision makers and different stakeholders to improve social services

• trainings
• Gender Equality

• Hubs

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

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
• Build something
• Reports

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Courses
• Data science for social good

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

• Civic hackathons

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic 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

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

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

This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.

• books

• The People
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• Books