Civic Tech Field Guide

Trail Blazer

620 Mendelssohn Avenue North, Golden Valley, MN, USA

Software for Political Campaigns, Nonprofit Donor Management, and PACs

apps

U.S. Federal Blockchain program

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

GSA launched the U.S. Federal Blockchain program for federal agencies and U.S. businesses who are interested in exploring distributed ledger tech.

United States (federal government)

National Day of Civic Hacking

On August 11th, 2018, join the Code for America Brigades as we host a nationwide day of action.

Lilly, T1D Exchange Diabetes Research Collaboration

ProcureWare

685 Stockton Drive, Exton, PA 19341, United States

Procurement software

D-Cent

Barcelona, Spain

D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.

American National Election Studies

"To my mind, the ANES has been the single most important resource in my career in political psychology."

Marsad Budget

4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie

Marsad Budget is a continuation of Al Bawsala's work, which is based on monitoring the various institutions in charge of managing state affairs and the consecration of the principle of transparency and thus making available to the citizen, simplified and accessible information on the state budget

MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism

Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

iHub

Kenya

SoundCloud

Berlin

Discover, stream, and share a constantly expanding mix of music from emerging and major artists around the world.

commercial

Berkeley Institute for Free Speech Online

Berkeley, California, USA

We provide software that ensures free speech online

Bot Populi

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

Open Courts Slovakia

Bratislava

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice

Mon Avis Citoyen

17 Rue Xaintrailles, 75013, Paris, France

Le site qui vous donne la parole

Racial Equity Tools

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

racial equity

Barcelona Pressupost Obert (Open Budget)

Barcelona, Spain

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

U.S. Conference of Mayors Civic Tech Pitch Application

Civic Tech Pitch during the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors.

MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

City Scrapers

Chicago, IL

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

TechFugees

Empoweringdisplaced personswith technologyOUR ACTIONS INNOVATIONWe support and help the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world since 2015.

refugees

Defend Our Movements

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

guides

Data First

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

DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers

eCityGovAlliance

The eCityGov Alliance offers easily accessible online government services. Our regional solutions provide one-stop convenience and deliver services from the customer perspective.

Google.org Global Impact Awards

United States of America (the)

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Google

UK: Covid-19 Local ward groups strategy

Open Google Doc resources

Women in Red

Project to create articles about notable women that do not currently exist on Wikipedia

Investigating digital tool re-use among UK organizations

The Engine Room, Albany Street, London, UK

We’re excited to share that over the next year, we’ll be carrying out a new research initiative looking at how UK charities re-use existing digital tools for service delivery.

reuse

Ask Izzy

33 Elizabeth Street, Richmond VIC, Australia

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

As the largest community foundation in the nation, SVCF helps build and strengthen the community by bringing together people and organizations who want to strengthen the common good.

California Public Technology survey

California

What are your hopes and dreams for California's new Office of Digital Innovation?

All Our Ideas

WhatsApp

Menlo Park, California, United States

Simple. Secure. Reliable messaging.

REVIVN

New York City

Revivn collects excess hardware from your business, secures your data & repurposes your unused tech for a greater cause.

eclips.is

eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.

Stanford PACs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Stanford, CA, USA

Scholars. Practitioners. Leaders.

Medsaf

Nigeria

Medsaf is a curated medication marketplace for African hospitals and pharmacies.

Good health and well-being

Tech for public challenges

Demokratie

Schlesische Str. 26, 10997 Berlin, Germany

Digitale Projekte auf ihrer Learning Journey

CoInspect

Tired of paper & pen checklists, shift notes, and log books? Join 1000s of restaurants nationwide and streamline your food safety & quality with our mobile app!

Digital Defenders Partnership

We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

Block Party

New York City

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

Nos Députés

17 Rue Corneille, 31100 Toulouse, France

Le collectif Regards Citoyens est une association constituée de citoyens de tous âges et régions, tous bénévoles, qui se sont rencontrés sur Internet dans un désir commun de proposer un accès simplifié au fonctionnement de nos institutions démocratiques à partir des informations publiques.

Nesta

58 Victoria Embankment

Nesta is an innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time.

Mobile text reminders for tax payments in Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara)

How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes

taxes

Atlas AI

Palo Alto

Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.

development

Open Government Data Salzburg (Land)

Salzburg, Austria

“Salzburg macht auf!” Das Land Salzburg stellt unter Open Government Data (OGD) bestehende Verwaltungsdaten zur freien Wiederverwendung und Weiterverwertung zur Verfügung.