Civic Tech Field Guide

Code for San Francisco

San Francisco

As part of the Code for America Brigade Network, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

Register2Vote.org

Texas

Our mission is to empower all eligible US citizens to become voters. That starts with voter registration.

US Election 2020

The Commons

United States of America (the)

The Commons is the proverbial “town square”–a gathering place, a source of affirmation, and a resource for those working every day to improve government services. Led by the Public Interest Technology team at New America, The Commons is a place where we’re figuring out the best way to do innovative work right alongside you. The Read More

Code for New Hampshire

Manchester, NH

Code for New Hampshire is an unofficial Code for America Brigade, a group of volunteers that bring community members together to make government work better.

Forward Sync (formerly LiveStories)

1904 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

Code for Newark

Newark, NJ

We are Code for Newark, the local Newark brigade of Code for America. We are a diverse group of newbies, pros, developers, coders, data geeks, and designers who are interested in making ourselves and our world a better place.

Code for Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

We are a community of volunteers who develop open-source projects as a Code for America Brigade by focusing on open government, open data, great design, and social good in Baltimore.

Citybase

30 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

CityBase is a gov tech platform that connects cities and citizens to make government more accessible and efficient.

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

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Democratic Innovation in Megacities

NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

Voterly

La Mesa, California, USA

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

US Election 2020

The Workers Lab

Uniting workers, transforming low-wage industries, rebuilding the American middle class.

Open San Diego

San Diego, CA

We are San Diegans who believe data and technology can better serve citizens, sparking a more vibrant democracy and civic life. We treasure our communities and work together to bolster our public experience. We are a brigade of the national, non-partisan Code for America, leveraging their resources, but keenly focused on our improving local issues here at home.

OrganizeFor

Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform

racial equity

Code for Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Code for Utah (formerly Open Salt Lake) is a Code for America brigade with one goal: to make Utah governments easier to use for citizens.

Explora Latam

South America

Map of Open Data, Civic Technology and social innovation in Latin America

LABIC

South America

LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.

SoukTel

Palestine Bank, Ramallah

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

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The Responsive City

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance [Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew citiesand citizenship in America The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement andgovernance in the digital age that will help leaders link importantbreakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessonsof small-group community input to create more agile

Question Bridge: Black Males

Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

racial equity

Ballotpedia

8383 Greenway Blvd, Middleton, Wisconsin, USA

The encyclopedia of American politics

Pavilion

San Francisco

Pavilion builds technology that empowers public servants to deliver better, faster public services from a wider and more diverse group of businesses.

Online listening sessions on immigration needs

972 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

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Needs assessment

The Democracy Fund

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

BallotReady

Chicago, IL

BallotReady is an online voter guide to local elections. We make it easy to vote informed on every candidate all across America.

US Election 2020

Integrated Benefits Initiative

United States of America (the)

Code for America partnered with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Nava Public Benefit Corporation to conduct pilots in Michigan (in partnership with Civilla), Colorado, Alaska, Vermont (led by Nava PBC) and Louisiana.

Popvox Legidash

Bay Area, CA, USA

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

Code for BCS

College Station-Bryan, TX, USA

Code for BCS is a Code for America Brigade (local chapter) focused on improving the lives of residents in Bryan/College Station.

OpenCounter

25 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

OpenCounter builds tools to help applicants understand the costs and requirements of their projects—before they start pulling permits.

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Latinno

Berlin

cases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)

Open Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek, California, USA

Open Walnut Creek was a Code for America Brigade (a local chapter) focused on improving the public services with residents and employees of Walnut Creek, CA.

Brigade Network Census

The Brigade Network Census is a series of questions that we at Code for America are asking all Brigade volunteers to answer so that we can learn more about who makes up our vast and distributed community

Code for Fresno

Fresno, California, USA

A group of coders, designers, government reps, and citizens building a better #Fresno

Code.gov

Washington, DC

Sharing America's Code. Unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government’s software

Code for Tucson

Tucson, Arizona

Code for Tucson is the Tucson chapter of the Code for America Brigade. We are a group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.