Civic Tech Field Guide

Data for Democracy

Data for Democracy is a community of data people volunteering on social impact projects.

Botcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

We use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.

Epp Peace Incubator

140 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Advancing peace through social innovation

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

research

City Science Network

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

cities

Digital Asia Hub

Hong Kong

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

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."

CSDC Systems

804 Las Cimas Parkway, Austin, TX 78746, USA

Since 1989, CSDC has been fueling process performance through purpose-built, automation technology.

Partidos Públicos

Santiago, Chile

Political party transparency made easy

The Engine Room

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

racial equity

Technologiestiftung Berlin

Technologiestiftung Berlin, Grunewaldstraße, Berlin, Germany

Wir erforschen und erproben digitale Werkzeuge um gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen, Verwaltung und Unternehmen die Zukunft Berlins zu gestalten.

Democracy.com

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

New Story

San Francisco

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

housing

Parli-N-Grams

Parliament Square, London, UK

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

Urban Data Pioneers

Tulsa, OK

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

Communally

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

Tor Project

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

apps

Blue State Digital Tools

The BSD Tools are designed to help you manage (and grow) inspiring, impactful digital programs - from fundraising to advocacy, communications to analytics.

Listening Post Collective

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

Climate Change AI

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

CityScope Champs-Élysée

Pavillon de l'Arsenal, boulevard Morland, Paris, France

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

urban planning

Services Week UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Services week is a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.

Digital Transparency in the Public Realm

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

Consumer Reports

Yonkers, NY, USA

Smarter choices for a better world

ProZorro

the official public purchasing information portal on open procurement in Ukraine

Carrotmob

Carrotmob is a new way to influence businesses. We spend money as a group, and in return businesses take socially-responsible actions we care about.

Open Tech Fund's list of funders

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

Local STEM Database

Hayward, CA, USA

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

STEM

Climate Careers

High-impact jobs solving the climate crisis

Climate action

Automating Society

Europe

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

Urban Systems

Kamloops, BC

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

indigenous

Grassroot

Johannesburg, South Africa

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).