Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

How the Resistance is Mobilizing

• podcasts
• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Podcasts

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• Emerging Tech report

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 and aims to improve social well-being by funding research and innovation in education, justice and welfare.

A RCT on government staff customer service reps found that providing information on organ donor registration rates led to a 25% increase in signups

• health

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

ArcGIS Field Maps is an all-in-one app that uses data-driven maps to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing, find assets and information, and report their real-time locations.

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.

• guides
• women
• LGBTQI

• Media
• Solidarity networks

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

A Ford Foundation memo sharing lessons learned from public interest law for their work in Public Interest Tech

• Public Interest Tech

Higher education must give the next generation of technology and policy leaders the interdisciplinary training they need to succeed, write Anne-Marie Slaughter, Darren Walker and Larry Kramer.

• Quality education

• Public Interest Tech

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

Welcome to the Garfield Weston Foundation. We are a family-founded, grant-making trust which has been supporting charities across the UK for over 50 years.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

NationalField was acquired by and folded into NGP VAN

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Artificial Intelligence

Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such poss

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators a

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

Recognizing organizations that support politicians to empower citizens and develop better policies for people and the planet.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Fieldwide resources

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

• land
• cities

• Open government data

Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Design

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

Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

• Climate action

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM

• Govtech
• Economic development

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Creators and Influencers
• Public Relations and amplification

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

• Open knowledge
• Open science

The Decelerator is a free support service for civil society organisations. We offer information, tools and hands-on support for better endings.

• Fieldwide resources

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Focused on promoting conversation and action when it comes to the ending of organisations in civil society.

• Fieldwide resources

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

"The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). As the first dedicated privacy regulator in the United States, the agency implements and enforces the CPRA and the California Consumer Privacy Act." - Wikipedia

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」

• air quality
• Clean water and sanitation

• Crowdsourcing
• Smart Cities and sensors

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights
• Predecessors

Pela defesa dos direitos digitais em Portugal

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

Microsoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.

• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Digital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal. It focuses on digital rights issues such as right to online freedom of expression and association, online privacy, access to information, internet governance, cyber laws/policies and cyber securities.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

Monitor Macroscopic Internet Outages in Near Real-Time

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity