A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Civic Service Design refers to the practice of creating, better understanding, and improving upon programs at any stage; we use “civic service design” to mean applying the tools and methods of service design to government-run or funded programs.

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

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

Three years of organizing, writing, and documenting in Chicago civic tech at the Smart Chicago Collaborative. By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Nei…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

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

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

"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

A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy

• commercial

• Playbooks and design principles
• Building in the private sector

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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• videos

• Learn about civic tech

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

We are gathering basic information about civic tech organizations around the world in order to understand better what we do, how we do it and how we sustain our operations.

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Civic tech community surveys

TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences
• Evaluate impact

Creating Technology for Social Change

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

A professional development course for election officials

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Seattle's Civic Tech Advocate Promotes Innovation, Engagement

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting

• Facebook

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

Promise Tracker is a collaborative data collection platform that allows communities to better understand and transform their social reality.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

A first-of-its-kind technology, data science, and design internship program for innovative students to solve pressing problems in US federal agencies.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Ottawa Civic Tech (YOWCT) is a community of citizens from diverse sectors and experiences who are interested in better understanding our complex social and civic challenges and building solutions at t

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

How can today’s public servants use technology and design to deliver high-quality public services and engagement opportunities?

• Courses

The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

• Civic and social impact companies

The Center for Civic Innovation focuses on improving the efficiency of public organizations and increasing civic participation. We are Atlanta's City Lab.

• Hubs

• Hubs

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Voter assistance tech

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

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. ‎Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

• Google

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium; appropriates $20 million from General Fund and $1 million annually thereafter.

• The Tech
• Media
• Foundational layers

On August 11th, 2018, join the Code for America Brigades as we host a nationwide day of action.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Was a civic co-creation space in Valencia

• Graveyard
• Hubs

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Communicating with the people