Civic Tech Field Guide

Make a Plan to Vote

Let's get started making your voting plan.

US Election 2020

Improving procurement to take on homelessness in Seattle

Seattle, WA, United States of America

The city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions. Now, with clear incentives and data collection, employees have a path forward for helping the homeless. But will it work? Journalist Rebecca Gale investigates. Homelessness was on the rise in Seattle. In 2015, Read More

Every Voice Engaged

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

Article One

Washington, DC

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

Singapore Behavioral Insights unit

Singapore

Budget Visualization & Taxpayer Receipt Tool

Charlottesville, VA

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 Big Send

Vote Forward volunteers encourage fellow citizens to participate in our democracy by writing and sending letters at their own expense. A diverse community of more than 150,000 volunteers from all over the country has written letters in 2020.

US Election 2020

Intertwinkles

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

The Coronavirus Hackathon (April 18-19)

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

CauseVox

Online fundraising software for nonprofit crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donation pages. Start taking donations online for free.

Google Public Alerts

Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.

Google

Partnership on AI

The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.

Results-Driven Contracting at Harvard Kennedy School

Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements. Instead, major procurements should be regarded as opportunities to advance the government leaders’ strategic goals. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities Initiative, the Government Performance Lab provides technical assistance to cities that seek to improve the results they achieve with their contracted dollars by employing results-driven contracting strategies, including:

Vota Inteligente

Santiago, Chile

The election is ours

engage2

Sydney NSW, Australia

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

VoterAid

Since you know yourself better than anyone, but don't know the candidates, answer a few questions about yourself and we'll match the right candidates to you.

Worldie – Social Media for Good

San Diego, CA

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

Deep-linking youth

Europe

The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.

youth

OurGoods

OurGoods is a resource sharing network for the creative community. Our members trade skills, spaces and objects to get their work done without money. We run live events, a facebook group, and a newsletter.

Ryecatcher

420 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025, United States

RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.

TurboVote

Brooklyn, NY

We help you vote, no matter what.

US Election 2020

Immaginazione Civica

Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 Bologna

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

Veterans Affairs Canada Find benefits & services tool

Quebec City, QC, Canada

By answering just a few questions, this tool can provide a list of benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada that are the most relevant to you.