Civic Tech Field Guide

INTRVL

United States of America (the)

Audience targeting, Response analysis

CodeWhisperer

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Code assistant

Amazon

Seattle, WA, United States of America

E-commerce conglomerate with a couple of civic-related projects

EngageTech Community on LinkedIn

Australia

A group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.

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.

21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act

Washington, DC

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

United States (federal government)

The Centre for Civic Innovation

Sydney NSW, Australia

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

Bard

Generate text, code assistant

Segment Anything

Edit images

Clipbook

Media monitoring

LangChain

Explore data

Terra.do Job Board

A free climate job board with 10,000+ jobs from more than 800+ companies across industries and geographies!

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.

United States (federal government)

Heintzman Leadership Award

Toronto

The Heintzman Leadership Award (HLA) is presented annually by the Institute for Citizen-Centred Service (ICCS) to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership within the Canadian public sector in promoting and influencing change in its delivery of citizen-centred service.

CitizenFirst Learning and Training courses

Toronto

Individual modules Citizen-Centred Service Design Becoming Citizen-Centric Public Service Delivery Fundamentals Listening to and Understanding Citizens Continuous Service Improvement Becoming an Inclusive Leader Building Service Culture Effective Service Delivery Management

trainings

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

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

CitizenFirst by Institute for Citizen-Centred Service

Toronto

Research, training, support and awards to promote citizen-centred public sector service to Canadians

Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Government report

Toronto

This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.

reports

Common Measurements Tool

Toronto

The Common Measurements Tool (CMT) is a survey instrument built specifically for the public sector that can be used across the full range of service areas, service channels, and client types

WinWith.Me

Europe

WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.

Facebook

El Avispero

Bogotá

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

IDinsight

Africa

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

Datadat

Europe

We equip progressive leaders and movements with innovative digital solutions to make social change possible

partisan

JournalismAI Discovery

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.

trainings

Construction of Positive Narratives Training

In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.

trainings

Israel Tech Policy Institute

Tel Aviv, Israel

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

The Student Privacy Resource Center

Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.

students

Eticas

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

CTFG partners

Digital Futures Lab

Goa

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

Are We Together?

Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

reports

The Future of Privacy Forum

Washington, DC

FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.

UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

OpenStreetMap

Future of Work in the Global South

Buenos Aires

FOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.