Civic Tech Field Guide

Sidewalk Labs

10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, USA

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

SCODA

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities. These datasets can help cities by supporting the planning, management, monitoring, and reporting needs of cities.

Via Water

We support innovative projects that solve water problems in African cities

Clean water and sanitation

Our Data Bodies

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

Delib Simulator

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Public engagement has never been easier

Beacon

United States of America (the)

Beacon makes it easy for you to take action on the issues that you care about.

apps

GlobaLeaks

Open source and free software that enables the creation of anonymous and secure whistleblowing platforms

Recovers.org

Help your community recover from disasters. A free, easy-to-use website for organizing disaster relief.

Hukoomi

Qatar (Dawlat Qatar)

Hukoomi is an e-governance application which provides access to a broad range of information, including legal information for business, and information about visa and immigration procesess.

Hong Kong Address Parser

Hong Kong

我哋幫你拆解難搞地址

Mapping tools

Apollo

Washington, DC

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

‎Larry Hogan For Governor app

Annapolis, MD

Official campaign app

apps

Civic tech patterns

San Francisco

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

The Gov We Need

The Government We Need is a podcast exploring the government of the future and how it can best serve everyone.

podcasts

Monocole 24: The Urbanist

Marylebone, London, UK

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.

podcasts

TV News Archive and captions

Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!

TrialWatch

United States of America (the)

Microsoft and the Clooney Foundation for Justice have teamed up to create TrialWatch, an app designed to help human rights advocates more easily monitor legal proceedings around the world.

Public Good

Public Good’s context and action-based approach is the most effective way to engage consumers in your brand.

Data For Good Calgary

If you have an interest in data and putting it into action for social good please join us at Data for Good - Calgary.Data For Good is a collective of volunteer do-gooders, who want to use their powers

Open Data Atlas

Germany (Deutschland)

Alle Open Data Portale in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.

Openly Operated

535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States

The free transparency certification

Quantum GIS

Collaborative Innovation: Public Sector Prizes

Sunlight Foundation's list of Open Government Initiatives

Civic tech catalogs

Cleveland Park Listserv

Cleveland Park, Washington, DC, USA

Cleveland Park Listserv

Women of Uganda Network

Uganda

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women’s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.

Project Shield

New York City

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

Google

The California Endowment

Hispanic Heritage Fun Fact: a huge chunk of America used to be Mexico, whose influence and contribution to the well-being of the U.S. can be felt everywhere. Which has the most impact?

GetCalFresh

Code for America, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

Access social benefits

VoteBuilder

‎Australian Christian Lobby

4 Campion Street, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia

An example of an issue campaign app

apps

Legislation.gov.uk

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.

Open Tactics

This resource is developed by and for open government influencers - civil servants and civil society representatives seeking to collaboratively make governance processes transparent, participatory and accountable.

Open Procurement

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Open Procurement: digital transformation in procurement

The Center for Communication and Civic Renewal

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

Oligrapher

Oligrapher is a tool for visualizing networks of influence

Miami Foundation

Vessels Tech

Adelaide SA, Australia

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

Talkto.nyc

New York City

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

Center for an Urban Future

Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.

Engagement methods for housing associations and beyond

Scotland

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

housing

Reported

New York City

Reported lets you submit feedback about NYC taxis in 30 seconds. Reported submits this feedback directly to NYC's 311 system and the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission.

EngagingPlans

Urban Interactive Studio helps communities engage more people in fun and effective ways

Credibility Coalition Partners with Jigsaw

New York City

The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.