OpenCounter builds tools to help applicants understand the costs and requirements of their projects—before they start pulling permits.

• land
• permits

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Govtech vendors

Open Walnut Creek was a Code for America Brigade (a local chapter) focused on improving the public services with residents and employees of Walnut Creek, CA.

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

The Brigade Network Census is a series of questions that we at Code for America are asking all Brigade volunteers to answer so that we can learn more about who makes up our vast and distributed community

• The People
• Civic tech community surveys
• Fieldwide resources

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• cities
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

On August 11th, 2018, join the Code for America Brigades as we host a nationwide day of action.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Code for America's weekly newsletter

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

ProPublica is proud to announce the 2017 Data Institute, a 11-day intensive workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism. The workshop will be from June 7 to June 21 in our NYC offices.

• workshops

• Workshops

Nkola App is a tool which can disseminate employment rights information via the short message codes on your phone – the ones usually used for airtime or service provision from the telecom companies.

• Civic data

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Civic hackathons
• Help out

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Can you design, write, or code? Are you an activist with an idea? You can help Los Angeles live up to its potential at Hack for LA. Everyone is welcome!

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

OpenMaine (formerly Code for Maine) is a local Brigade in the Code for America network.

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE

• Organize campaigns
• Phone banking tools

Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Messaging flows for campaigns and organizations

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Emerging tech

The CSAP uses interactive radio shows (radio dialogues in combination with SMS feedback) to enable citizens to hold their leaders to account by asking the hard questions. By enabling citizens to text their views to a free short code, the approach allows for large-scale consultations and provides evidence of citizen’s opinions. AVF analyses these views using rigorous social science research and presents them in a form that supports policy action by authorities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative is a project of Living Cities, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, and Code for America that brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and local data intermediaries across seven communities.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Textizen is a mobile platform dedicated to connecting difficult-to-reach audiences with the public institutions that serve them in scalable, efficient ways.

• youth

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

• The Tech
• Data governance
• Games and gamification

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Co-design

WE ARE A COLLABORATIVE GROUP OF CODE FOR AMERICA VOLUNTEER BRIGADES FROM NORTH CAROLINA

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

• indigenous

• Media
• Promise trackers
• Budget explorers

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The resistance is local—welcome! Type in your zip code to find local, independent Indivisible groups in your area that have agreed to organize according to Indivisible’s principles. Come prepared to make plans for action and meet others who are working to resist Trump’s agenda. Register a group

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

GotToVote started off as a simple experiment to make data otherwise locked in government, useful to the general public. When the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission released voter registration centres locations information in the 2013 Kenyan Elections, they made it available as a PDF on their otherwise always unavailable website. This unprecedented ease of finding your registration centre spurred adoption of GotToVote's simple code in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Malawi. Code4Africa continues to this day in ensuring citizens get to the ballot box prepared by adding more arsenal of what GotToVote can offer and has grown to include Peace Messaging, Polling Results and Voter Registration Confirmation (VRC). In Kenya GotToVote deployment that focussed on making it easy to find your nearest registration center; In Malawi - the Malawi Government as their official platform, GotToVote was used for voter registration confirmation

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

A group for civic hackers, innovative government employees, and concerned citizens for the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) metro area. Focusing, but not limited to, on creating a better citizen and government collaborative experience in the Twin Cities through technology. Associated with the Code for America Brigade.

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

Ballot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Vote by Mail

Code for America Brigade for Eugene, Oregon

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others