Civic Tech Field Guide

Bite the Ballot

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.

WAVE

A man awakens from a coma and speaks a fully-developed but unknowable language that baffles linguists from all over the world.

films

Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

SONYC Sounds of New York City

Brooklyn, NY

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

cities
noise

New America Resilient Mesh Wireless initiative

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA

The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.

CIVICUS

College Park, Maryland

A living-learning community at the University of Maryland based on instilling civic engagement

Intersection

10 Hudson Yards, 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA

Connecting brands and consumers

Democratic Principles for an Open Internet

The Democratic Principles for an Open Internet have been primarily designed for citizens and civil society organizations in fragile and emerging democracies, who are new to the digital rights space, are beginning to engage more regularly online, and who may be more likely to encounter deliberate internet disruptions as a result of government interference.

TED action platform

TED Conferences, Hudson Street, New York, NY, USA

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

NYC Connectivity Challenge

New York City

Forward Sync (formerly LiveStories)

1904 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, USA

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

Speak Out Tech

Worcester, MA

What if Tech said

campaigns

Discotechs

Detroit, MI

The Public Impact Observatory

10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva Switzerland

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

research

Digital Undivided

50 Hurt Plaza Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

BLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

Internet Geographies

Oxford, UK

Neighborland

Boulder, CO

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

housing

Kick

Kickstart Accelerator bridges the gap between startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate deep tech innovation.

Police Case

Sierra Leone

Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.

Internet Universality Indicators (ROAM-X)

UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

human rights

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

youth

Democratic Innovation in Megacities

NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

MyGov NYC

134 Spring St, New York, NY 10012, USA

We help you better understand NYC government, and give you decision-making tools to improve it

Youth in Front guide to student protests

youth

Wayfindr with TfL

52-58 Arcola Street, London E8 2DJ, UK

We have developed the world's first internationally-approved standard for accessible audio navigation.

Storyweaver Freedom to Read

StoryWeaver offers open source libraries for children's books in their native languages.

Briar Project

Secure messaging, anywhere

apps

Global Voices Digiglot

a newsletter about languages and tech

indigenous

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

Hive Chicago Fund

Lilly Endowment

Lilly Endowment Inc., is a private philanthropic foundation supporting the causes of religion, education and community development. We afford special emphasis to projects that benefit young people and that strengthen financial self-sufficiency in the charitable sector.