Civic Tech Field Guide

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

youth

Represent by Pro Publica

155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA

See what your representatives in Congress say and do.

Democratic Innovation in Megacities

NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) awards

Lexington, KY, USA

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

state

Facebook Civic Engagement team

Palo Alto

A team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting

Facebook

Data.NY.gov

Albany, NY

Browse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers’ markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.

Bonayo

San Francisco

Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.

London Plus

London

Championing London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections

Voterly

La Mesa, California, USA

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

US Election 2020

Appropriate technology movement

Bonn, Germany

a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.

Predecessors

Maryland Law HelpApp

Maryland

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

apps

Apolitical's Government Innovation Lab Directory

London

Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch

Code for America

San Francisco

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organization works with residents and governments in solving community problems.

Code for Kenya

Nairobi

Code for Kenya uses data to give citizens hyper-local and hyper-personal information to make better informed decisions about bread & butter issues. Code for Kenya also builds technology tools to amplify citizen voices.

Civic hacking meetups

Digital Attack Map

New York City

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

Sideways Dictionary

Washington, DC

it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions.

Climate Designers

Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work

Climate action

Citizengage

1110 Vermont Ave NW Washington D.C. 20005

Discover how citizens and governments are coming together around the world and how you can join them.

La 27e Région

Les Halles Civiques Belleville, Rue Piat, Paris, France

New innovation methods for designing public policy involving all public stakeholders

Enforcement Proceedings Map

Czechia

The interactive map of over-indebtedness in the Czech Republic based on real data from Central register of enforcement proceedings (financial executions)

debt

Code for America Brigade Organizer's Playbook

Identication for Development

To enable all people to exercise their rights and access services, ID4D helps countries realize the transformational potential of inclusive, robust, and responsible digital identification systems.

Technical.ly

Technical.ly grows local technology communities by connecting organizations and people through news, events and services.

WEF National Digital Governance Playbook

The “Digital Policy Playbook 2017” is designed to help leaders understand the complex dynamics and difficult decisions they will face in managing their transition into the digital domain. With real-world insights on the implications of digitalization, the aim is to strengthen their confidence as they create new opportunities for all while lowering shared risks. By providing a richer understanding of the factors shaping our future, combined with pragmatic tools to drive the outcomes desired, this new playbook will serve to support the core mission of the World Economic Forum: improving the state of the world.

Boston's Smart Streets page

Boston, MA

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

Simply Secure Knowledge Base

Simply Secure supports practitioners in putting people at the center of trustworthy technology.

Podemos

Madrid (Spain)

Contigo, construimos el cambio político en nuestro país. Sí se puede. ¡Podemos!

Instituții Publice

Romania

Navighează profilele celor 14.000+ instituții publice și evaluează eficiența, profesionalismul și integritatea acestora din prisma propriei experiențe.

Digital Undivided

50 Hurt Plaza Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

BLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

Innocentive

265 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA

Data City | Data Nation

Find out more about Data City | Data Nation, a global data sharing initiative between Singapore and London.

Otwarty Gdańsk

Gdańsk, Poland

Zapraszamy do korzystania z otwartych danych Miasta Gdańska. W serwisie publikujemy dane m.in. o miejskich finansach, rozkładach jazdy komunikacji miejskiej, demografii. Otwarte dane czekają na wykorzystanie przez Ciebie, Twoją organizację pozarządową lub firmę!