Civic Tech Field Guide

censusAmericans

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

census

Bots

@CongressRfp

Washington, DC

Twitter bot that tweets RFPs from US legislative branch agencies. This is a public interest bot and a project of Demand Progress.

@opengovjobs

Capitol Hill

Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.

The Should This Exist? podcast

Hosted by Caterina Fake, Should This Exist? is a show that takes a single technology and asks: What is its greatest potential? And what could possibly go wrong?

@LeadershipFlack

Washington, DC

This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.

Synthetic Messenger

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

Climate action

Vote.org Whatsapp Chatbot

Helping voters in English and Spanish

WhatsApp

CivicPlus government Chatbot

302 South 4th Street, Suite 500 Manhattan, Kansas 66502

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

@AppropsTracker

Washington, DC

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

@EveryCRSReport

Washington, DC

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

#SelfCare

#SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.

apps

@congressedits

Washington, DC

tracked edits made to Wikipedia from U.S. Capitol computers

LegBranchProcurementBot Twitter bot

A Twitter bot to tweet out procurements on SAM.gov occurring for the legislative branch

X (Twitter)

Praekelt.org

Johannesburg, South Africa

WhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products

WhatsApp

Novoville

London

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

Turn.io (previously Engage Whatsapp app)

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

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

Botcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

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

Cofacts

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

LINE

AppCityLife

7801 Academy Road NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

apps
cities

Curbie

With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.

cities

Belisar.io

A bot of legislative proximity that seeks to promote communication between government and citizens through artificial intelligence.

Amicable

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

Robota

Israel (Jisra'el)

Robota is a chatbot that guides workers to file a lawsuit against their current or former employers.

Aunt Meiyu

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

LINE

Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda

Oxford, UK

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

Health Complaints Assist

Australia

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

URBEM

Monterrey

URBEM es una plataforma para digitalizar trámites y servicios de gobierno, y automatizar la atención ciudadana con Inteligencia Artificial.

The Commons Project

We are a community of robots and people crossing divides on social media.

LISA

United States of America (the)

Robot Lawyer Lisa works with you and another party to generate a mutually-satisfactory Non-Disclosure Agreement without involving human lawyers

Holopolis bot

Holopolis bot allows always available participation. It packages vTaiwan as a contact you can add friend with and share your opinions on cases under discussion.

Wagbot

New Zealand

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

Apptivism

Scotland

Helping citizens and communities to give their view on civic issues through Messenger chatbots

Place Speak

New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADA

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.