Civic Tech Field Guide

Answering the Call candidate training

9 East St, Boston, Massachusetts

Answering the Call, a leadership development experience designed to help service alumni explore their interest in potentially seeking political office.

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

housing

MuckRock Foundation

United States of America (the)

File, track, and share public records requests.

bldg.app

Brooklyn, NY

A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.

ControlShift Labs

ControlShift is a set of web tools that helps your organization build community, leadership, and real power among your members.

Ecanvasser

Ireland (Éire)

Canvassing & voter management software

Run for Office

Search for elected offices across the USA.

Tapvote – Public Pledge Tools

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

A public pledge-card platform that helps you win commitments from candidates. It’s like a networked petition that links your petition and supporters to the candidates who pledge to support it

Wetaase

Kampala, Uganda

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

anti-trafficking

Debug Politics

An online forum for community discussion

Forward by Forward Labs

Appleton, WI, USA

Forward is a web app that tracks civic engagement opportunities ranging from town hall meetings, to rallies, to civic art projects throughout the state of Wisconsin.

apps

Avaaz

Avaaz mobilizes instant campaigns to address crises happening anywhere on earth, and to close the gap between the world we have the world most people everywhere want. Join the movement now.

FragDenStaat

Berlin

To strengthen the topic of freedom of information as a whole by transparently depicting the inquiry and response process.

GetThru (formerly Relay)

Best in class P2P texting and calling tools to help you reach your audiences at scale.

Amandla Awethu

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Awethu puts power in your hands. This is your space to run campaigns about issues affecting the Black majority of South Africa, particularly women. If you have an idea to make your community or the world, a better place for Black women, awethu can help you make it a reality.

Advocacy tech

The Rules Culture Hacking Toolkit

The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. We call it Culture Hacking.

Target Smart

At TargetSmart, we make data better every day. And making better data helps our clients make the right decisions, define their audiences more intelligently, and communicate in a more impactful and cost-effective way.

Election performance index

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Elections Performance Index (EPI) compares election administration policy and performance across the states and from one election cycle to the next.

OpenProgress WeVolunteer

WeVolunteer is for DOers who want to change the world!

Responsible Data community

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

Democracy Kit

Outreach Circle (formerly VoterCircle)

Support your favorite cause or campaign Anytime, Anywhere

apps

Dozorro

Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption

BankLocal

Find great local banks and invest in growing your community. Our interactive map and bank report cards arm you with knowledge you need to make the right choice.

Where does my money go?

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Showing you where your taxes get spent

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

Barcelona Pressupost Obert (Open Budget)

Barcelona, Spain

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

Skaidrumo Linija

Lithuania (Lietuva)

Platform for Lithuanian citizens to seek advise on reporting corruption or dealing with corruption, enhanced with an interactive map.

Do Gooder

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

Compass Fellowship

Not accepting fellows as of 4/23/2020. The Compass Fellowship connects diverse changemakers with the tools, training, and jobs needed to build a career in the progressive movement.

Write in Public

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

When conversations are held in public, everyone’s accountable

Marsad Budget

4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie

Marsad Budget is a continuation of Al Bawsala's work, which is based on monitoring the various institutions in charge of managing state affairs and the consecration of the principle of transparency and thus making available to the citizen, simplified and accessible information on the state budget

Vouliwatch Cyprus

Cyprus (Kibris, Kypros)

Δημοκρατία Επόμενης Γενιάς

Chiedi

Italy (Italia)

Transparencia

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Transparencia is a platform for access to administrative documents (subsidies, public markets, etc.) developed by Anticor Belgium

Open Gov Report Card

6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Grades how Chicago and Cook County government agencies share important meeting information like agendas, minutes and schedules with the public

iCampus

150 CAREY STREET, MONROVIA, LIBERIA

iCampus is Liberia’s first multi-disciplinary, innovation and community space for change-makers focusing on the intersection of technology, accountability and social change. The establishment of iCampus was fostered by Accountability Lab Liberia and iLab Liberia as part of a USAID Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative program that tends to inform decisions around policy reform through advocacy.