Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

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

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

NYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's knowledge for the Internet age.

• libraries

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

• workshops

• Narrative tech
• Story tech

Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.

• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Civic Quarterly is a publication about transforming government with digital tools & design thinking.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to deliver user experiences that are easily embraced by people in their everyday life.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Learn to design creative, people-powered advocacy campaigns that transform systems

• trainings
• coaching

• Organize campaigns

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists announced an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies political discourse on the Web.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

questions-and-answers with elected officials, candidates, media, and more public figures

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Ballot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Vote by Mail

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE

• Organize campaigns
• Phone banking tools

Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

• trainings

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Direct action
• Story tech

Knomos employs modern app frameworks and design principles grounded in the user experience to deliver more powerful legal tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Hardware

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• Conferences

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies