AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others

CUTgroup gives residents the opportunity to be a part of the design process for emerging civic technology initiatives through user testing and focus groups

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

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.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Graveyard

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

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

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field
• Reports

NYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's knowledge for the Internet age.

• libraries

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Digital literacy

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

• workshops

• Narrative tech
• Story tech

Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.

• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Civic Quarterly is a publication about transforming government with digital tools & design thinking.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to deliver user experiences that are easily embraced by people in their everyday life.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Learn to design creative, people-powered advocacy campaigns that transform systems

• trainings
• coaching

• Organize campaigns

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists announced an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies political discourse on the Web.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

questions-and-answers with elected officials, candidates, media, and more public figures

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

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

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Vote by Mail

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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.

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

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers