Civic Tech Field Guide

HGSE Civic and Moral Education Initiative

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Code Switch

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

Forj (previously Mobilize.io)

Outreach center, member CRM and a social lounge combined. It's everything you need to build and manage a thriving community your members will love.

AskYourGov

Uganda

AskYourGov.ug has been built to help members of the public get the information they want about/from Uganda public authorities – by asking for it. It will also make life easier for Ugandan public officials because they will be less likely to have to answer repeated requests about the same subject: once a question has been answered everyone will be able to find the information stored on this website

DoSomething.org

DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NY, USA

Largest organization for social change volunteers and community service, with 6,000,000 members and counting.

Elevator

Washington, DC

A mentoring app connecting new and former members of Congress

trainings

Congress.gov

United States Capitol

U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

Open Gov Hub

Washington, DC

Open Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.

Kildare Street

Cork, Ireland

Parliamentary monitoring in Ireland

Code for America Brigades National Advisory Council

The 9 elected Brigade members "represent the needs, ideas, and goals of all the Brigades and strengthen the network and community."

Code for New Hampshire

Manchester, NH

Code for New Hampshire is an unofficial Code for America Brigade, a group of volunteers that bring community members together to make government work better.

Singapore Data Discovery Challenge

Singapore

Shine Your Eye

Nigeria

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

Orange Telecom Data for Development Challenge

Senegal

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

Anti Ring

This is a project to counter the Amazon Ring doorbell camera surveillance infrastructure. We provide information for users and community members concerned about the country’s biggest company planting always-on cameras all over our streets.

OrganizeFor

Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform

racial equity

Community SpeedWatch Online

Battle TN33 0LH, UK

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

COVID-19 map

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

COVID-19

Grassroot

Johannesburg, South Africa

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

Annenberg Civic Media Fellowship

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

Amplify

Group leaders set the most important actions of the day, while members use the Amplify app to easily accomplish them and encourage others to do the same.

ControlShift Labs

ControlShift is a set of web tools that helps your organization build community, leadership, and real power among your members.

Open Government and Civic Technology Facebook Group

Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. ‎Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...

Consumer Reports

Yonkers, NY, USA

Smarter choices for a better world

GVEP International

Georgia Berry, Communications Officer for GVEP International, reports back on the Partner workshops. Launching a new programme of activities in East Africa, GVEP International Team members were in Uganda and Kampala in March to meet with some GVEP

Open Data New Zealand

New Zealand

Lonely Coders Club

this Slack has over 200 members who identify as “lonely coders,” technologists who are alone or one of just a few folks in their newsroom who work with tech and data.

Color of Change

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

racial equity

The US Office of Technology Assessment

United States of America (the)

OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology assessment.

Predecessors

Participatory Budgeting Project

Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.

Participatory budgeting

Police Rewired

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

criminal justice

Kubatana

Zimbabwe

Kubatana's core work is making the civic and human rights information published by civil society in Zimbabwe accessible to members of the public. To make this happen, we engage a creative suite of social media, delivering important information, daily, to people who appreciate a different point of view.

human rights

Invisible Hands

New York City

Safe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.

Collab

Collab is a prototype built by Sidewalk Labs and Digital Public Square to help break through barriers and help people participate from anywhere, at anytime

World Bank Group (Innovation Challenge)

Individuals, students, entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia, private companies, nonprofits and public sector agencies from member countries of the World Bank Group shared innovative solutions and ideas for tackling real-world, actionable climate challenges.

Tenders Guru

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

Tech Resistance

As members of the tech resistance community we commit to resisting the Trump Administration’s efforts to divide, to silence, to persecute and to oppress.

Congress on anything

United States of America (the)

The latest bills and statements by members of Congress on the topics you care about - search the record

Open data barometer

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

The Movement Cooperative

Greeley Square Station 4 East 27th Street New York, NY 10001-9998

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

Code With Aloha (Previously Code for Hawaii)

BoxJelly

Code With Aloha is a volunteer group of developers, designers, project managers, and community members who gather to work on civic projects that help the community.

Tiziano Project

Los Angeles, CA

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training, and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.

Good Tech (formerly Data Analysts for Social Good)

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

trainings

Presolv360

India (Bhārat)

Presolv360 is an online dispute prevention service that aims to prevent legal disputes and litigation. The Presolv forAll service is available as a free service for underprivileged members of the society.

Catalist

United States of America (the)

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Working with Catalist can help you build membership, target persuasive messaging, engage activists, drive an issue agenda, and register or mobilize voters.