Five in-house teams of product managers, designers, engineers, researchers and data experts are being stood up and embedded directly with agencies to build digital tools.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Housing Innovation Collaborative exists to bring people and ideas together to accelerate the production of lower-cost, higher-quality housing.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Incubators

The Institute for Worldmaking (IWM) is a global cultural research lab and public platform developing tools for imagining and building dynamic futures for and from the Arab world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic literacy
• Research tools

The California Department of Social Services's mission is to serve, protect, and support the people of California experiencing need in ways that empower wellbeing and disrupt systemic inequities

Municipal software that helps local governments manage public works, asset and work-order management, permitting and licensing, code enforcement, and citizen requests — built on Novo Solutions' ShareNet platform with Esri/ArcGIS integration.

University of California Berkeley

Providing weather, earthquake, disaster prevention and lifestyle-related information as well as consultation on its usage.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

An organization focused on child support in Japan, tackling social challenges surrounding children with child poverty as the primary focus.

• Access social benefits
• Mutual aid
• Civics education

Grameen Japan providing microfinance and employment support programs to help people achieve self-reliance through entrepreneurship or employment

• Mutual aid
• Economic development
• Fintech for good

An organization aiming to solve child poverty.

• Communicating with the people
• Community-building resources
• Support civic projects with tech

UC Berkeley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are launching the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, a nonpartisan hub for research, teaching, and civic engagement set to open in January 2027.

A library catalog search service to help find books you want to borrow.

• Access to information
• Civic literacy
• Open data publishing platforms

Introducing a 'Community Development Council' system where local residents proactively participate in town planning.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

An NPO working to socially solve poverty issues in Japan.

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Mutual aid

Promoting the utilization of open data to drive regional revitalization.

• Open government data
• Digital transformation
• Building inside government

Operating 'City Lab Tokyo,' a hub tackling social issues through urban development.

NPO HUB GUJO: Operating a telework center and promoting regional revitalization.

NEC providing domestic generative AI to Sagamihara City to support drafting council meeting response documents

A company selected for the local government public relations digitalization demonstration project.

Implementing 'Community Development Public Offering Projects' where the city provides funding for citizen-proposed projects.

• Funders & donors
• Open government data
• Fundraising tools

Providing the online administrative platform 'GaaS'.

A Japanese government agency.

An organization providing pro bono services to NPOs to support social problem-solving, including activities to eliminate poverty.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Nonprofit tech
• Community-building resources

Giftee Inc. Providing the 'e-Machi Platform'.

Providing 'GovTech Express,' a conversational application dedicated to government agencies, to support the establishment of a 'Smartphone City Hall.'

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

Providing the regional issue resolution platform 'Shiraseau,' offering disaster prevention and regional information transmission services to local governments.

Collaborating with Code for Japan to utilize open data and government resources.

A company working on regional revitalization, providing a Regional Revitalization Cooperative DAO solution.

Atlas Inc.: using AI to streamline corporate attraction activities

An organization led by companies in Aizu-Wakamatsu City to promote smart cities.

issue+design NPO providing the Climate Citizen Dialogue program to co-create regional decarbonization policies

Service providing care-related information on tablets for caregivers

Organization promoting civic tech as a citizen activity

International civic tech network connecting Code for communities worldwide

Fukui Prefecture initiative for residents and private engineers to collaborate using civic tech (digital tech) to solve locally-identified issues

Alliance of civic tech and Code for organizations across Chiba Prefecture

Public-private DX forum for Yamaguchi Prefecture; runs Japan's first prefecture-level civic tech challenge

Numerous app development efforts in Sabae, an open-data pioneer municipality, with active citizen involvement

Slack-based online community connecting citizens, open-data users and Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Japanese OpenStreetMap community and supporting nonprofit OSMFJ for citizen-edited mapping

• Open government data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Podcast / livestream where civic tech practitioners chat informally about their work

Group in Mobara, Chiba; promotes citizen action through dialogue games like SIM Mobara 2030

IT developer community founded in 2011 to support recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Civic tech group in Sodegaura, Chiba; offers takeout maps and bots for community support

Civic tech community utilizing Kyoto City open data

Civic tech brigade in Sapporo; creator of Sapporo Hoikuen Map and Higumap

Volunteer civic tech organization improving life in Fukuoka using open data

Industry-academia-government civic tech brigade in Aizuwakamatsu using open data to solve local issues

Civic tech brigade in Funabashi providing fun and useful ICT services

To display on a smartphone the route that Bashō traveled in the local area, allowing people to follow it on their own without a guide.