Civic Tech Field Guide

Open Knowledge Foundation Japan

Harks Roppongi Bldg. 2nd floor, 6-15-21 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032

Transparency International Japan

Post Restante Minato-Shirokane Post Office, Tokyo, Japan, 108-0071

Fact Check Initiative Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

Civictech Accelerator Program (Code for Japan)

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

Japan's first civic tech accelerator 日本初のシビックテック領域特化型アクセラレータープログラム、始動。

Accelerators

Code for Japan Slack Community

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

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.

Open Eats Japan

An open data standard for restaurant information

food

Data schemas and standards

Code for Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

Japan's national civic hacking group

Civic hacking meetups

Code for Japan Summit

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

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

Conferences

Code for Japan's Civitan Civic Tech Explainer

のびしろ、おもしろっ。シビックテック - シビックテックの3つのアプローチ

videos

Learn about civic tech

APAC Cybersecurity Fund

San Francisco

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.