A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

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

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Civic Design Lab (CDL) is a civic service design and innovation team within Oakland City Hall that grew out of the Resilient Oakland initiative.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

• rural

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Design

A list of design systems and CSS frameworks used by governments around the world

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

500+ design tools for public good, all in one place.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

At MIT, the Design Laboratory exists within a context of broad-based technological innovation and builds upon the unique advantages offered by this setting. It pursues research, executes practical design and art projects, and engages in scholarship and criticism.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

This playbook is a crash course on service design. It works alongside the 13 points set out in the Digital Service Standard to provide the basics needed to get started on a digital service.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital standards

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Voter assistance tech

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Build the right thing in the right way

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Our guide on using design tools and methods in the public sector, created in partnership with design firm IDEO.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Original site for the Field Guides to Ensuring Voter Intent, which now live at https://civicdesign.org

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Europe's best framework for developing and operating a business

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The MADD programme will provide candidates with the Master Key to create comprehensible and meaningful ways to connect people with information.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Academic programs

A crowdsourced US timeline of civic tech as a field

• Predecessors

HUMAN-CENTERED TOOLS TO ADVANCE NEW YORKERS' MENTAL HEALTH

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

Citizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

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
• Courses

The Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge and develop innovative and effective solutions to social challenges.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Loup is a human-centered design and innovation consultancy that helps organizations listen to and learn from the people they serve.

• Social impact design firms

Empowering designers within government

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work

• Climate action

• The People
• Peer networks
• Help out

The professional association for design

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Exploring the culturally specific language of Design + Justice habitually juxtaposed at a higher frequency than chance

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Lou Downe, Director of Design and Service Standards for the UK Government opens #ServicesWeek 2019

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

• Build something
• User research
• User research groups

This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.

• guides

• Cybersecurity
• Foundational layers

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.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Co-design

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

CheckIT is a flexible, event-based mobile inspection tool designed by VPUU to improve the delivery of essential services in Cape Town’s informal settlements.

• informal settlements

• Issue reporting

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Datamuse is a collection of websites, mobile apps, and APIs designed to help people create and communicate more effectively.

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Digital transformation
• Economic development

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Peer networks
• Digital transformation
• Data governance