What

The Civic Tech Field Guide is a crowdsourced, global collection of tech for good tools and projects. It’s your place to find and be found.

Thousands of civic tech practitioners from over 100 countries around the world have contributed to this living resource. We catalog not only the tools, but also the social side of our field: the conferences, funders, awards, design principles and playbooks.

It’s a free, and Creative-Commons-licensed collection curated to help you in your work. Whether you want to add your own project(s), learn from others’, or research our field, we invite you to explore the field.

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The Tech

💬
Engagement

🏛️
Govtech

📊
Civic data

🛡️
Advocacy

📰
Media

📡
Emerging tech

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The People

🤝🏽
Meet the others

👩🏾‍💻
Find a job
(or hire someone)

🙋🏻‍♂️
Help out

💡
Build something

💰
Get funding

📚
Learn about civic tech

🧪
Evaluate impact

📆
Fieldwide resources

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Get discovered

Funders, developers, and volunteers use the Field Guide

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Causes
Adjacent Fields

Causes

By format

How does the project manifest in the world? What is it?

APIs
Apps
Books
Browser extensions
Civic features
Commercial and/or mainstream products
Films
Guides
Legislation
Podcasts
Private data for public good
Reports
Research
Toolkits
Trainings
Videos
Wikis
Workshops

Methodology
Place-based
Tool re-use
Open source

By political unit

What political scale is the project designed to address?

Neighborhoods
Cities
Rural
State and Regional

By audience

Does the project seek to empower a specific audience?

Immigration
Labor
Refugees
Women
Youth

By current event and movement

Collections of projects that were launched to help with specific historic events.

Brexit
Coronavirus
Hong Kong protests
Racial Equity
US 2020 Election

Adjacent Fields

1. Foundational layers of civic tech

2. Related tech for public good

3. Ethical tech

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Civic tech worldwide

Pages curated by civic tech leaders in global communities

By country

🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇱 Chile
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇷 Iran
🇲🇽 México
🇵🇱 Poland
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇹🇭 Thailand
🇹🇳 Tunisia
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

By city

🗽 New York City

🏛️ Washington, DC

Global

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Don't take our word for it

"Why reinvent the wheel when others have gone and done things before us? The Civic Tech Field Guide has been a fantastic source of inspiration and a great tool to support collaborations. As we set out to build openhluttaw.info in Myanmar, we came across the Sinar Project in Malaysia, who had an existing backend and helped us get up and running in a matter of days. Major win for all of us!"

Victoire Rio

Social Impact Director, Phandeeyar: Myanmar Innovation Lab

"The Civic Tech Field Guide is the best and most up-to-date resource that offers a comprehensive taxonomy of the emerging field of civic tech. When I need a tool, or wonder "Has someone ever done that?", I go to the guide and find something new."

Catherine D'Ignazio

Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT, Director of the Data + Feminism Lab

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Education Policy Impact Fellowships

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

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Urban and Regional Planning Resources

A project to collect data and technology resources that concern the built environment and communities.

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Civic Hackers Network

The purpose of the Civic Hacker Network is to connect volunteers and professionals working to use data and technology to make a positive impact in their communities.