Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Hacking Social Justice Issues

• Civic hackathons

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses
• Academia

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research groups
• User research

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Meeting tech

Civic X Syllabus is a roadmap to learning about civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.

• Reading lists

Democracy Only Works When We Do

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

A marketplace of vendors who can help implement, host, train, and develop custom solutions for groups using CiviCRM, Drupal, Wordpress, and more

• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic and social impact companies
• CRM

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Citizen Engagement

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Meeting tech

Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

A scratchpad for studying and imagining revived civic engagement in the 21st century.

• Newsletters
• Voting and elections

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

• Freedom of Information
• Justice tech

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Artificial Intelligence

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

Successful public-facing technologies rely upon direct resident engagement and community-focused design.

• User research
• User research groups
• Graveyard

We are the first donor fund dedicated to community organising. We will provided targeted long-term funding in key geographies across the UK.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• The craft of organizing

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

The Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

Code for Canada's job board

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

A place to restore trust and shape the future of democracy via collective experimentation, empowerment and creativity

• Hubs

A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Conferences
• Design

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

urging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Technology to strengthen citizens - Transforma a tu organización en aliada de la ciudadanía.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Civic apps outfits

We build tools that foster civic participation, civc education, and government transparency. Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

CiviCue is a democratic media equipped with blockchain voting and friendly voter authentication to establish shared understanding.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Building the next generation of collaborative systems, owned entirely in the public interest

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics

• resources

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Reading lists
• Socialize online

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

Civic Bridge recruits private sector professionals to volunteer their time to work alongside government employees on critical City issues. Pro-bono, private-sector support can increase the City’s capacity to identify and analyze pain points, provide agile and iterative solutions, as well as increase interest in cross-sector collaborations. Civic Bridge is a cohort-based program, the program builds off of the example set by a number of Cities such as Chicago’s Civic Consulting Alliance and San Jose’s Silicon Valley Talent Partnership .

• Pro bono and volunteer

Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー

• Conferences

Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.

• Find a job or hire someone

Japan's first civic tech accelerator 日本初のシビックテック領域特化型 アクセラレータープログラム、始動。

• Accelerators

This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling
• Data visualization