Civic Tech Field Guide

Code for Tampa Bay

Tampa, Florida

Code for Tampa Bay is an official Code for America Brigade in Tampa, FL working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

Code for Australia

Neighbourhood - 4 Brunswick Pl, 4 Brunswick Place, Fitzroy VIC, Australia

Building a 21st century government, together. We’re working towards a government that is built by and made for everyone.

Code for All Dispatch

Our monthly newsletter is one of the ways we keep up with each other and share resources, funding opportunities and challenges. Now, we’re opening it up to our wider community.

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.

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.

Code for Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Bridging the gap between local government and human capital in Chapel Hill

Code for Denver

Denver

We build software to help nonprofits and local government better serve their community.

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.

Code for America Brigade Organizer's Playbook

Code for America Brigades

The Code for America Brigade Network is a national alliance of community organizers, developers, and designers that are putting technology to work in service of our local communities.

Codeando Mexico

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

Generamos nuevas formas de participación ciudadana a través de la tecnología.

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 Alliance

Dear Social Good Coders! It’s with huge excitement today that I announce the relaunch of our SocialCoding4Good (SC4G) initiative as Code Alliance!

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.

Code for Science and Society

Portland, OR

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

Code for America

San Francisco

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organization works with residents and governments in solving community problems.

Code for PDX

Portland, OR

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

Code for Kenya

Nairobi

Code for Kenya uses data to give citizens hyper-local and hyper-personal information to make better informed decisions about bread & butter issues. Code for Kenya also builds technology tools to amplify citizen voices.

Civic hacking meetups

Code Across America Day

Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We help residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

Code for Cary

Cary, NC

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

Code for America Technology Awards

The Code for America Technology Awards recognize outstanding products and implementations of government technology.

Code for Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

We would like to invite you to the new Code For Tallahassee brigade and the unveiling of our flagship project Roadmaps to the Future (RM2F)

Code for San Jose

San Jose, California, USA

Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

Code for Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Iowa is known around the country for its abundance of corn, soybeans, and pork. Code for Iowa is about leveraging our lesser-known abundance of technology talent to spur civic innovation.

Code for Fresno

Fresno, California, USA

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

Code for America gov listserv

Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that helps residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

Code for Durham

Durham, NC

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

U_Code

Dresden

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America

Cambridge, MA

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

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Postcode => Westminster constituency converter

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO)

Process code for software procurement

Amsterdam

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

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Democracy Decoded

Washington, DC

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

2023 Webby Awards

Beyond Binary Code Builder

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

Social Coder

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We connect volunteer programmers with charities for specific, goal-oriented projects.

Standard for Public Code

Amsterdam

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

Using no-code to build and grow your tech for good startup

A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures

Build something

Geotarget campaigns by zip code

A short case study using ESRI to focus your campaign on the areas with the most potential supporters.

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PromiseTracker (Code for Africa)

Africa

Promise Tracker is a tool designed to help journalists and civil society watchdogs track campaign/promises/pledges by government officials

In.CoDe: Indonesia’s Competition for Civic Tech Apps

Indonesia

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

Civic hackathons

Voluntary Code of Ethics - India 2019 Election

India (Bhārat)

EU Code of Practice on Disinformation

Europe

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.

Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct

Nepal

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

KP Gov Innovation Fellowship Program with Code for Pakistan

Pakistan

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services. These apps can help solve problems in a variety of public domains, such as healthcare, crime, disaster management, citizen engagement, transportation, traffic, education, etc.