Civic Tech Field Guide

Data Mapping Cornwall

Cornwall

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

New Ways Feed

Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)

Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

cities

Digitally Yours Podcast

Tunisia (Tunis)

Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.

podcasts

Sudan Safe Passages Amen

Khartoum, Sudan

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

ReliefWeb Response

RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

With its partners, OCHA contributes to principled and effective humanitarian response through coordination, advocacy, policy, information management and humanitarian financing tools and services.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A Snapshot Of Artificial Intelligence Procurement Challenges

GovLab New York University

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

reports

Reddark

an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients

Reddit

Anticipatory Innovation

Public sector needs to prepare for what is coming next, continuously identify, test and implement innovative solutions to benefit from future opportunities while reducing the risks through increased resilience of their public systems. To facilitate that OPSI has developed an Anticipatory Innovation Governance (AIG) model.

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

United States of America (the)

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

books

Media Ownership Monitor

The Media Ownership Monitor is a global research and advocacy initiative that creates transparency on “who owns the media?” - and ultimately answers the question “who controls the media?” through contextualization and analysis.

FedNow

United States of America (the)

"FedNow is a service developed by the Federal Reserve for depository institutions in the United States. It will enable individuals and businesses to send and receive instant payments. Banks will be able to build products on top of the FedNow platform." - Wikipedia

Interconexión.lat

Latin America

Interconexión.lat es una plataforma que impulsa el intercambio y co-producción de datos entre organizaciones de sociedad civil en América Latina para hacer frente a retos transfronterizos y hacer eficientes los esfuerzos de la región.

Tolgee

Czech Republic (Ceska Republika)

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

Urban Ocean Lab

San Francisco

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

AI Forensics

Italy (Italia)

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

FireChat

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

Hong Kong protests

Stop Your Government

Ljubljana

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

PartyParty

Berlin

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

Data in the ATL

Georgia (US state)

PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.

Alliance of Civic Technologists (ACT)

United States of America (the)

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award

18F, Technology Transformation Services

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

IDinsight

Africa

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

Israel Tech Policy Institute

Tel Aviv, Israel

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

Predicting Well Groundwater Quality Using Cloud-Based Machine Learning: DataKind San Francisco Partners with Aquaya and DataKind

A writeup of the partnership

Clean water and sanitation

Participatory Digital Futures: How digital transformation can be made good for all

by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.

Hâck The Hague

The Hague, Netherlands

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives

Hamburg

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

Conferences

Police Scorecard

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

UNHCR Connecting Worlds Mentor

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

Resource matching and sharing

American Red Cross Emergency app

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.

Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Closed Eyes

Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.

Participatory memorials

Beyond Binary Code Builder

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

The Lebanon Press Elections Edition

Beirut

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

2023 Webby Awards

Oslo Governance Centre

Oslo, Norway

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

Peace, justice, and strong institutions

SDG 16 Survey Initiative

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

Peace, justice, and strong institutions

CityBase

800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

Sherpa Government Solutions

800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199

Public Sector Budgeting Software

GSA Workplace Innovation Lab

GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Located on the second floor of our headquarters at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., the Workplace Innovation Lab showcases the latest innovations in office design, furniture, and technology to meet the needs of today’s hybrid federal workers.

IPleak.net

Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

Good health and well-being

NYC OpenRecords

City Hall, Centre Street, New York, NY, USA

Welcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech

Cornell Tech

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

cities

2022 Political Tech Landscape Report

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring