Civic Tech Field Guide

Open Supporter Data Interface

We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.

The Coronavirus Hackathon (April 18-19)

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

Humane by Design

A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

Results-Driven Contracting at Harvard Kennedy School

Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements. Instead, major procurements should be regarded as opportunities to advance the government leaders’ strategic goals. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities Initiative, the Government Performance Lab provides technical assistance to cities that seek to improve the results they achieve with their contracted dollars by employing results-driven contracting strategies, including:

Immaginazione Civica

Salaborsa (II floor) Piazza Nettuno, 3 - 40124 Bologna

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

Polis

Insights

Washington, DC

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

FutureAir

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

air quality

Passport

128 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, USA

Passport transforms the way cities manage their operations by reducing operational complexity and delivering intelligent data.

Citizinvestor

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

Greenpeace Kit Kat

Indonesia

A big 'Thank You!' to the hundreds of thousands of you who supported our two-month Kit Kat campaign by e-mailing Nestlé, calling them, or spreading the campaign message via your Facebook, Twitter and other social media profiles. This morning, Nestlé finally announced a break for the orang-utan - as well as Indonesian rainforests and peatlands - by committing to stop using products that come from rainforest destruction.