We are a collective that helps designers impacted by the conflict in Ukraine reach safety and find new work opportunities.

• Ukraine

• Design

The professional association for design

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work

• Climate action

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The standards explicitly define excellent U.S. election administration.

• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards
• Election administration

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We connect volunteers (developers, graphic designers, marketing specialists) with impactful social good projects to help them with tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The discussion list has over 3,800 members from all over the world, from a wide range of disciplines including: campaigners, designers, content creators, fundraisers, academics, agencies, vendors and much more. It is a friendly, supportive, highly knowledgeable community where you can receive and share advice about best practice for digital campaigning.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

We are the ProPublica union. We are reporters, editors, designers and business and communications staff across the entire workplace who are dedicated to investigative reporting in the public interest.

• labor

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech unions

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups
• In-person meetings

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

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

• Conferences

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Design

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Justice tech

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Ex Nihila is a community of founders, designers, and technologists that build and launch new ventures.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

WeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.

• Civic data
• Data visualization

We believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups
• In-person meetings

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

• Media
• Journalism

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.

• Media

This class uses the idea of values-driven design to help creators consider the politics of the technologies we use and which we bring into the world and teaches methods of research, design and deployment intended to help technologies meet the needs of real-world communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Courses

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

• guides

• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Deepfakes

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services. These apps can help solve problems in a variety of public domains, such as healthcare, crime, disaster management, citizen engagement, transportation, traffic, education, etc.

• Fellowships

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.

• Find a job or hire someone

Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

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

The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

The Ontario Digital Service (ODS) is a hub of technologists, designers and digital government experts who deliver user-centred products and digital policies using agile processes and data-driven methods.

• Govtech
• Graveyard

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

Progressive gifts made by designers who give a shit

• Merchandise
• Civic tech gifts

Case Studies from Around the World

• Design
• Books

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Pro bono and volunteer

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

The Tech4Germany Digitalization Fellowship brings IT talent, designers and entrepreneurs together with government agencies and ministries to solve burning challenges for the federal government over three months.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

International community of policymakers, service designers, digital people & others working to reform government and make public services better

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

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

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Building inside government

IIT Institute of Design (ID) is a graduate design school with a history of innovation. ID pioneered the development and dissemination of modern design from its founding in 1937 as the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Today, our graduate design school focuses on global challenges. We prepare designers to take on the worlds complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable problems such as competitiveness, digital media and learning, health and wellbeing, and social innovation.

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits