Author: Civic Tech Field Guide

In partnership with the team at the Narrative Initiative, we’ve created a Narrative Tech section in the Civic Tech Field Guide. It’s dedicated to the work of shaping how narratives are created, distributed, tracked and absorbed into society. Narrative Technology encompasses the tools, platforms, and infrastructure that can be used to assist and accelerate the… Continue reading How to shift societal narratives

We’re making ongoing technical and usability improvements to the Civic Tech Field Guide. These are always available on our site changelog. You can also stay up to date on the most recently added project listings at civictech.guide/new. November site updates: The NYC page’s map now begins focused on NYC, rather than zoomed out We’ve extended… Continue reading Changelog: November’s site updates

One year ago this week, we launched the updated Civic Tech Field Guide at Code for All Global Summit in Bucharest, Romania. For our first birthday, we’re rolling out a new feature. Since then we’ve helped thousands more civic tech practitioners around the world, doubled the size of our collection, and produced original research about… Continue reading 🌐 Civic tech worldwide 🌐

Did you know we maintain a site changelog? That’s where we publicly track updates and improvements to the Civic Tech Field Guide. Here’s the work we did to the site in September: Redesigned pillar table of content pages e.g. Civic data Broke the 30 individual civic maps and 39 mapping tools and platforms out into… Continue reading September updates to the site

First, congratulations to Google.org’s 20 AI for Social Good grantees, including existing Field Guide entrants Crisis Text Line, Full Fact, and HURIDOCS! The phrase “artificial intelligence” has long been critiqued as too broad a phrase, and one that encompasses many distinct technologies. As AI becomes more relevant to our lives, we’ve made the decision to… Continue reading We’re getting more specific about AI

Now you can share that your work has been featured in the Civic Tech Field Guide:     Here’s the embed code: <a href=”https://civictech.guide/”><img src=”https://civictech.guide/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/featured-in-the-civic-tech-field-guide.png” alt=”This website is featured in the Civic Tech Field Guide, a global directory of tech for the public good.”></a>   Just copy and paste that into your page’s HTML and,… Continue reading New: Get your ‘Featured in the Field Guide’ badge

In celebration of State of the Map US taking place this past weekend, we decided to refresh our own civic maps collection. With 71 “mapping” projects (and more on the way), it was time to make that section more approachable. So, we’ve broken out individual civic maps and re-usable mapping platforms. Civic maps collect and… Continue reading A more useful civic maps collection

We’re thrilled to share that the Civic Tech Field Guide has been selected as a finalist in the Civvys. What are the Civvys, you ask? Good question! The American Civic Collaboration Awards, or the Civvys, are the only national awards program dedicated to celebrating projects that emphasize working together across divides of all kinds –… Continue reading We’re a Civvy finalist!

Together with the civic tech community, we’ve been hard at work building a collection of relevant projects to help you in your work. We just uploaded a fresh batch of over 800 new and recent entries. So, we wanted to share an exciting milestone with you: The Civic Tech Field Guide now includes over 3,000… Continue reading 3,000 projects served

Matt was invited to share the Civic Tech Timeline at the Civic Tech Toronto Meetup last night. He was the 196th speaker in the event series, hosted in a building that predates the incorporation of the city itself. Watch the video below for a quick overview of the Guide, the timeline, and a discussion about civic… Continue reading Sharing the Civic Tech Field Guide at Civic Tech Toronto