Civic Tech Field Guide

Government Digital Service UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

The priority of Barcelona is to go beyond the concept of smart city or smart city and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by data-based technologies and their great power of transformation.

Social-Digital Innovation

Berlin

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

Ontario Digital Service Design Playbook

Ontario

This playbook is a crash course on service design. It works alongside the 13 points set out in the Digital Service Standard to provide the basics needed to get started on a digital service.

Guías del Estándar por Estado de Digitalización

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

Mexico's digital standards for government

U.S. Digital Response

United States of America (the)

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

The U.S. Digital Services Playbook

United States of America (the)

The American people expect to interact with government through digital channels such as websites, email, and mobile applications. By building digital services that meet their needs, we can make the delivery of our policy and programs more effective.

Playbooks and design principles

United Kingdom Digital Service Standard

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Service Standard helps teams to create and run great public services.

Team Digitale

Via della Mercede, 9 00187 Rome (RM) - Italy

Digital innovation for citizens and for the development of the country. Replaced by the Department for Digital Transformation.

San José Digital Inclusion Fund

San Jose, California, USA

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

Ranking Digital Rights

740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

Democracy and Digital Media conference

42 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

Hivos Digital Integrity Fellowship

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

The Digital Matatus Project

Kenya

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more livable future

a McKinsey report

Demokratie-Wegweiser

North-Rhine Westphalia

eine übersichtliche, zentrale Datenbank von der Kommune bis zum Bund – zu Wahlkreisen und Mandatstragenden.  Mit einer digitalen Landkarte wollen wir Bürgerinnen und Bürgern den Weg durch das Wirrwarr der Zuständigkeiten weisen.

Chicago IT Strategy

Chicago, IL

Technology plan for the City of Chicago

Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

Cyber Policy Awards

Washington, DC

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gathering of the U.S. cyber policy community to honor and celebrate those who drove significant progress in the preceding year, and to make resolutions for the new year.

Parliament Watch (Thailand)

Bangkok, Thailand

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

EVoting

Santiago, Chile

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

World Health Organization Innovation hub

Geneva, Switzerland

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

Good health and well-being

Innovation teams and labs

New Practice Lab

Washington, DC

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

Reduced inequalities

Fable

Montreal, QC, Canada

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

Recommended Actions for Online Platforms to Improve Human Rights Defender Protection

Washington, DC

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

Civic Tech Innovation Short Course, Wits School of Governance

Johannesburg, South Africa

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.

AfricTivistes

Dakar, Senegal

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

Peer networks

Snowflake

Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.

The Democracy Machine

Brooklyn, NY

Eyebeam artists fellowship

Common Knowledge

London

We use technology to help social movements build power

coop

The Citizens’ Biometrics Council

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

Africa Data Leadership Initiative

United Nations Foundation

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

United States of America (the)

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

The Society Library

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

a11ybuddy

Germany (Deutschland)

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

AI Elections Initiative

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

Open Terms Archive

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

OpenWebSearch.eu

14 renowned European research and computing centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.

Ethical tech and responsible tech

Next Generation Internet (NGI)

Brussels

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust.