Civic Tech Field Guide

Black Software

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

HeLawyer

Benin (Bénin)

HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.

City Innovation survey and map

Explore how cities around the world are applying innovation methods to tackle their tough challenges

Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.

immigration

Localization Lab

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

Go Code Colorado

Colorado

Go Code Colorado is a statewide apps challenge to bring developers and entrepreneurs together to build better business apps with public data.

HealthTools

Kenya

HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional crowd verification

Good health and well-being

Steps to Justice

Ontario

Steps to Justice provides users with step-by-step legal information, practical tools, and referral information for legal and social services across Ontario.

Google Person Finder

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

Google

Micromappers

Supporting Disaster Response. With a Single Click!

People's Coronavirus Response

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

Gavel

Lagos

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

Crash Data Explorer

Columbus, OH, USA

Crash Data Explorer is an open source analysis and engagement tool for urban pedestrian and bike safety.

Health Complaints Assist

Australia

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

Urban Innovation Fund

San Francisco

A venture capital fund that identifies early-stage innovators solving our toughest urban challenges and provides them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued companies.

Re-focus

Australia

Re-focus is a mobile application that provides legal information and welfare advice for women who are separated orare thinking of separating.

apps

LegalApp

Colombia

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

TED action platform

TED Conferences, Hudson Street, New York, NY, USA

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

Code for Fort Collins

Fort Collins, CO

Code for Fort Collins is a volunteer organization who develops technology-driven solutions to challenges faced by charities, government agencies, and other groups within the city.

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

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

BuiltWorlds

Chicago, IL

BuiltWorlds is the premier research-driven network operating at the intersection of the built industry and technological innovation

housing

The Public Impact Observatory

10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva Switzerland

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

Open 2018: Platform Cooperatives

Conway Hall, London, United Kingdom

COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY

Famalia

Kenya

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

Digital Connector

The Urban Innovation Centre, One Sekforde St, London, EC1R 0BE

The Digital Connector is an open source piece of software, which allows data specialists to efficiently connect data sets into a common format.

E-court

Netherlands (the)

E-Court specialises in private and civil online dispute resolution. It aims to provide administrative justice at low costs.

Neighborland

Boulder, CO

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

housing

Maryland Law HelpApp

Maryland

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

apps

Sahana Eden check-in

Blokable

Southeast Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA, USA

We partner with market rate and not for profit land developers and service providers to make housing happen. Building at lower cost, higher quality, and in less time, we create real estate equity.

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, by Astra Taylor

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

books

Nuru

Kenya

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

Police Case

Sierra Leone

Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.

Gravyty Go

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

Gravyty Guide

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

In4Justice

Nigeria

In4Justice is an online dispute resolution service, and provides an alternate dispute resolution mechanism for small claim settlements.

Info4Disasters

Wakili Mkononi

Kenya

Wakili Mkononi helps individuals in need to find lawyers or law firms.

Law Help Interactive

United States of America (the)

Law Help Interactive is an online service which helps users fill out legal documents for free.

Project Homeless Connect

25 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA

Project Homeless Connect connects San Franciscans experiencing homelessness with the care they need to move forward.

Gravyty First Draft

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

Ignis

Lincoln, NE, USA

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.