Civic Tech Field Guide

Boston Office of New Urban Mechanics

Boston, MA

The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics was formed in 2010 as one of the first municipal innovation offices in the world. Our research and design projects tackle a range of topics — from civic engagement to city infrastructure to education. Our team comes from a diverse array of backgrounds and our work comes in many different flavors.

Count the Nation

Los Angeles, CA

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

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FEMA Community Alerting Protocol

United States of America (the)

This section contains information about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard that is used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings.

CityFlag

Berlin

Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]

Jabar Digital Service

Jl. Diponegoro No.22, Citarum, Kec. Bandung Wetan, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40115

Jabar Digital Service (JDS) atau Unit Pelaksana Teknis Pengelola Layanan Digital, Data, dan Informasi Geospasial adalah sebuah unit di bawah Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika Provinsi Jawa Barat yang dicita-citakan dapat mempersempit kesenjangan digital, membantu efisiensi dan akurasi pengambilan kebijakan berbasis data dan teknologi, serta merevolusi pemakaian teknologi dalam kehidupan masyarakat serta pemerintahan di Jawa Barat.

The Centers for Civic Impact @ Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University

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Code Corps

Contribute to software projects for social good. Give your time or money to help build software to better the arts, education, government, science, and more.

The Perfect Candidate

1 Chifley Square, Sydney NSW, Australia

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

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Work for LA

Los Angeles, CA

We want you to work for the City of Los Angeles. However, the process involved in getting a City Job can be a bit confusing. This site exists to help explain the process and help make it easier to pursue a public service career.

Civic Makers Melbourne

Melbourne VIC, Australia

It is a collective of people using their skills to create things for the public good. Sometimes this involves tech, sometimes community organising, sometimes it's just talking about and understanding a problem from different points of view.

City of Austin Office of Design & Delivery

We’re a new office within the City of Austin that’s dedicated to designing and building services for residents that grow and adapt with their needs.

Operation Serenata de Amor

Brazil (Brasil)

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

Code for Australia Wildlife Incidents and Emergencies

Victoria, Australia

A web application to connect the general public with the large network of shelters and rescue organisations when people run into wildlife in distress.

New Cities Summit

The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has been […]

Humanitarian Data Exchange

The Hague, Netherlands

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

FlipFeed

MIT Media Lab

Step into someone else's Twitter feed

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Presidential Innovation Fellows

1800 F St NW, Washington, DC 20006, United States

We must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government.

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy: Data Tool

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy

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European Network of Living Labs

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006 under the auspices of the Finnish European Presidency, the network has grown in ‘waves’ up to this day.

Gravyty First Draft

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

Give Lively

We build better fundraising tech and give it away for free (seriously). Our products drastically improve the online giving experience and help 501(c)(3) nonprofits raise more for their causes.

Planetizen

The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.

Code for Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

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Civic Hall Digital Learning Center Professional Training Programs

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

Yelp's Consumer Protection Initiative

Yelp, Inc, New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Today we're excited to announce we’ve joined forces with ProPublica to incorporate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.

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MightyCause

Alexandria, VA, USA

A HUB OF FUNDING TOOLS MADE WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN MIND

National Democratic Institute (NDI)

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

Civic Labs Belgium

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

Citizen interaction design

Michigan, USA

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

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Civic Tech Data & Collaborative framework

United States of America (the)

The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative is a project of Living Cities, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, and Code for America that brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and local data intermediaries across seven communities.