Civic Tech Field Guide

COVID-19 Response Community Slack

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

Bot Populi

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

Open Courts Slovakia

Bratislava

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice

Civic tech tools that did not meet expectations: Lessons learned from the field

Eastern Europe

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

reports

Deliberative Media Initiative Lab

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

Innovate Africa

Africa

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

Institute for the Future

Institute for the Future, Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, USA

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

workshops

Coronavirus Reponse: Ways to Help, Volunteer, and What to Do

Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Color of Change

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

racial equity

Konveio

1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202, USA

Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

Social Coin

Barcelona, Spain

See contact information and details about Social Coin.

Do Gooder

Create campaign websites and embed email, call-in, fundraising and social network actions targeting politicians and decision makers anywhere in the world.

Tiger Eye

Ghana

A mobile application that enables anyone in Ghana to use their mobile phones to safely record corruption activities in their communities. Built in partnership with the Tiger Eye Foundation, it has security features that ensure the safety of citizens who use it.

Government of South Australia Digital Transformation Toolkits

State Administration Centre, 200, Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

toolkits

Mobile Justice

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

Civic tech community organizer toolkit

Canada

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

Swap my Vote

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Platform that allows voting partners to make their votes count in a different constituency, where each voter’s first preference has a better chance of winning a seat

Maps for Change

San Francisco

Embeddable map of parallel events and buses going to the People's Climate March in Washington, DC.

Speculative Tourism

Jerusalem

Speculative Tourism is an international project that operates at the crossroads of science fiction, historical tourism, Augmented Reality and local action.

Chefs for the Polls

United States of America (the)

World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

US Election 2020

Civic I/O

Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.

cities

Bots for Charity

Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

Change Research

San Francisco

Change Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campaign has access to the actionable insight they need to win

Strava Metro

Strava Office, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA

Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.

mobility

BigUp

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

Gender Equality

Ask Nameesa

Nameesa, which is an AI powered conversational and personal engagement platform that automatically responds to people inquiries about Coronavirus (COVID-19) with information from credible sources such as WHO and Ministry of Health.

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

Consensus.ai

Using signals gathered from citizens, either actively and passively, combined with available data sets, Consensus AI helps governments understand their citizens at a much deeper level.

OuiShareFest

OuiShare Fest is an international event that gathers entrepreneurs and social innovators, non-profit and business leaders, grassroots activists and public officials each May in Paris.

Engaged Public

Engaged Public partners with citizens, civic leaders, and public and private stakeholders to tackle complex public challenges

Civic and social impact companies

Harta clientelismului politic

Romania

The map shows the transfers from the Government to the municipalities and county councils from the Reserve Fund (15%), Local Development National Program (65%) and other programs managed by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration that sum up to 7.5 billion lei

Gehl Institute

Record the impact of your public space project

OpenDataKit

ODK lets you build powerful offline forms to collect the data you need wherever it is. Join the leading social impact organizations that use ODK to make the world a better place.

McKinsey report on blockchain in government

It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.

Deciding Vote

Portland, OR

See how you match with political candidates based on the issues you care about

US Election 2020

Foundation for Inclusion

The Foundation for Inclusion is the world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges. We collaborate with changemakers in all sectors to solve large-scale social problems. Join us!

Civic and social impact companies

World Bank Group (Innovation Challenge)

Individuals, students, entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia, private companies, nonprofits and public sector agencies from member countries of the World Bank Group shared innovative solutions and ideas for tackling real-world, actionable climate challenges.