Housing Data and Technology Innovation Challenge
A nine-week remote open-source challenge to build transparent tools that estimate how state-level housing reforms affect housing supply.
2026
Explore 16 projects in the Competitions category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Competitions seek to generate progress in a given domain, such as AI, with rewards for those who win.
A nine-week remote open-source challenge to build transparent tools that estimate how state-level housing reforms affect housing supply.
Code for India (CFI), the civic-tech nonprofit dedicated to empowering engineers and changemakers to build technology for public good, is running "Code for a Billion -- Bharat Agentic-AI Hackathon 2026," a 90-day, fully virtual, impact-focused hackathon.
Civic tech prototype development contest for students and youth under 22 (since 2020)
Urban Data Challenge (UDC) is a long-running (since 2013) national Japanese open-data initiative that pairs an annual public contest, awarding data-driven solutions to local problems, with a nationwide network of "regional hubs" building local data-utilization communities across Japan.
The Easiest Capture The Flag Platform
To promote charitable projects that want to implement an innovative digital idea to strengthen our democracy.
Spanish regional bank BBVA shared anonymized credit card transactions data with participating developers in its Innova Challenge.
The Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.
Find out more about Data City | Data Nation, a global data sharing initiative between Singapore and London.