Civic Tech Field Guide

CivicPlus

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

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

Civictech Accelerator Program (Code for Japan)

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

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

Civic Hall Labs

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

Civiclytics

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

Civic Tech, Qualitative Research Career, & Service and Trauma Informed Design Resources

CivicAI

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

Climate action

Artificial Intelligence

Civic Alliance

United States of America (the)

A nonpartisan group of businesses working together to build a future where everyone participates in shaping our country.

Civical

Berlin

Social Media Management Software for Politics

Civic Tech Index

Los Angeles, CA

Join a worldwide movement to catalog every open source civic tech project

Github

Civic Design Library

The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore

11 Computing Drive, Room 03-24. National University of Singapore

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore is a research hub led by Dr. Weiyu Zhang. We are a team of social scientists, computer scientists, and digital cultural analysts.

Research and policy centers

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

students

Civic Design Fellowship at the Center for Civic Design

United States of America (the)

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

Civic Source

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

Civic Tech Saitama シビックテックさいたま

Saitama, Japan

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

Civic hacking meetups

Civic Design Center

Nashville, TN

A 501(c)3 nonprofit that works with residents, organizations, and municipalities to help improve the quality of life of all people in communities. We do this through engagement, education, connection and design.

Design

Civic Science Fellows

The overarching goal of the Civic Science Fellows Program is to co-create strong, diverse, and inclusive connections between science and civic life.

Fellowships

Civic Hackers Network

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

CivicApps.org

Portland, OR

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

Civic Action Teams

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

Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

anti-trafficking

Civic Sundays

United States of America (the)

Progressive election action. Postcarding, phone and text banking, voter registration, canvassing. Every Sunday.

partisan

Civic tech patterns

San Francisco

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

Civic Hall Digital Learning Center Professional Training Programs

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

Civic Engagement interdisciplinary program at UChicago

Edward H. Levi Hall, 5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA

University of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.

Civic Solidarity Platform

A platform that brings together non-governmental organizations committed to improving the human rights situation in Europe, Eurasia and North America. Its aim is to serve as a conduit through which civic activists can build alliances, strengthen mutual support and solidarity, and improve their influence on national and international human rights policy.

Civic Innovation School

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

trainings

Civic Hall

118 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA

The home for civic tech in New York City

Hubs

Civic Design Method

A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.

Civic Innovation Slack

An online forum for community discussion

Civic Tech Toronto

Toronto

Civic Tech Saint John

Saint John, NB, Canada

Civic Tech Saint John is an open and inclusive forum for all Saint Johners to explore community issues with one another.

CivicSmart

Innovation has been at the core of our corporate DNA since 1936, and the last several years have seen a wave of innovation that is delivering the promise of Smart Parking to cities of all sizes.

Civic Tech YYC

Calgary, AB, Canada

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

Civiciti

Civiciti is a participation platform for continuous democracy. We help citizens, public administrations and organisations around the world discover, discuss and decide on the issues they care about.

Civic and social impact companies

Civic Innovation and Building a People-Centered Government

A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.

Civic Tech Innovation Database (South Africa)

Johannesburg, South Africa

The Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.

Civic Labs Belgium

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

CivicRush

California

Volunteer & Serve for Community Project

apps

Civic I/O Mayors Summit

Austin Convention Center, East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, USA

Every year, mayors from around the country gather at the Civic I/O Mayors Summit at SXSW. The summit is a time to bring together city leaders, entrepreneurs, and provocative thinkers in order to learn from one another and engage in the premier destination for discovery.