Civic Tech Field Guide

Citizen Beta

London

The civic tech meetup for people working on civic technology, empowering citizens, and government transformation.

Journocoders

We are a community group of journalists and others who work in the media, or are planning to in the future.

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

racial equity

California Water Data

California

To aggregating data and driving analysis to provide solutions for water management that secure the future prosperity of California and its citizens.

Clean water and sanitation

Tools for Reporters

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

Pakistani Lawyer

Pakistan

Pakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.

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UK Behavioural Insights Team

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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.

Bite the Ballot

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.

youth

CivicMakers

We help governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises create human-centered solutions to achieve their missions and scale their impact.

Do Big Things

NYC Blockchain Center

New York City Economic Development Corporation, Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

the City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center

Social Media Exchange (SMEX)

Beirut

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

trainings

Open Heroines

Voices of women in open government, open data and civic tech.

Opendatasoft

Paris

Publish, Manage, Combine, Analyze, Visualize, and Share your data. In one place.

VR Hub at Laboratory of Technopolitics for the Common Good

theunitedstates.io

@unitedstates is a shared commons of data and tools for the United States.

NYC Council 2.0

New York City

Code for Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

ELECTricity

ELECTricity is a network of over 1,000 election officials sharing best practices

Data Zetu

United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)

The Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), as a non-governmental organization has been formed in June 2018 as a progression of the three successful projects named; Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), Data Zetu and Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge (DLIIC)

Zilino

California

Zilino is the web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated participatory processes.

Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)

113 Moses Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720

EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.

guides

Million Dollar Blocks

Chicago, IL

Illinois allocates an incredible amount of money to incarcerate people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods — sometimes millions for residents on individual city blocks. There are more effective ways to invest public dollars.

GovTech Singapore Digital Government Blueprint

Singapore

The Digital Government Blueprint (DGB) is a statement of the Government’s ambition to better leverage data and harness new technologies, and to drive broader efforts to build a digital economy and digital society, in support of Smart Nation.

WAVE

A man awakens from a coma and speaks a fully-developed but unknowable language that baffles linguists from all over the world.

films

Acumen Academy (formerly Plus Acumen)

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.

OpenPaths

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

OpenPaths, a secure datastore for personal location info.

DecidimFest

Barcelona, Spain

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

Decidim

The Free Speech Project

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

Doxbox Trustbot

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.