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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Build With is a training, facilitation, and consulting practice led by Laurenellen McCann.

• trainings
• workshops

• Civic and social impact companies
• Co-design

• Civic data
• Roundtables

DataViva is opening up data for the entire formal sector of the Brazilian economy through more than 1 billion interactive visualizations.

• The Tech
• Data visualization

powerplanets is owned by the science channel. i might be posting a full guide on the game, but for now ask your questions on the comment section and i will g...

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

The US government's guide to usability methods, guidelines, and tools

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

10% less door-to-door walking time. Automatically generated walk lists.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Effective cloud communications tools are the key to reaching and engaging citizens - all while enhancing transparency and building trust.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

a selection of guidelines and discussions produced by First Draft on reporting disinformation around coronavirus and other topics ethically and responsibly, as well as a curated list of other resources to help you navigate potential issues covering what the WHO has called an ‘infodemic’.

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Help your neighbors register to vote.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

a comprehensive catalogue of civic engagement software

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

RideShare2vote provides full training for drivers regarding voter laws as well as implementing CDC guidelines regarding masks, sanitizing before and after completing rides and social distancing with only one rider in the back seat.

• US Election 2020
• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

This easy-to-use tool from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office will guide you through the ways you can cast your ballot safely in 2020.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

An interactive website that asks residents to balance their city budget

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making. We are the people's guide to the federal budget. In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our pioneering work to track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the need to build a green economy. In 2017, we joined the non-profit Institute for Policy Studies as an independent project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Helpself Legal is an online document automation system. Users can use the guided workflows to find legal assistance.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

• The Tech
• Govtech

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

The Drone Journalism Lab's Operations Manual is here to help your news organization with using flying robots to report news.

• Media
• Journalism
• Drones

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

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

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people. PB gives you real power over how your taxes are spent. What is PB? Download the PDF The Case for PB Learn More Guides and…

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Find in-depth information about what's on your ballot.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections