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2026
Explore 34 projects in the Hyperlocal news and citizen media category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Hyperlocal news and citizen media platforms represent an early dream that the internet's limitless capacity as a medium would lead to the emergence of extremely local (and thereby relevant) news coverage. This dream hasn't played out as expected. While we all report, in a sense, about our hyperlocal experiences on social media platforms, the venerated "citizen journalist" of the early 2000s wasn't able to sustainably produce quality journalism to the degree many industry experts predicted.
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he Bay Dashboard is an independent, student-built civic dashboard that gathers scattered public planning records across all 101 Bay Area cities, what's being built near you, which board decides it, and when it meets, into one resident-facing tracker with plain-English meeting summaries.
A continually updated guide to major development, infrastructure, preservation and civic changes shaping Brooklyn Heights.
SouthendOnSea.city is a local information and community-participation platform serving Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Boston Council tl;dr is an AI tool that turns hundreds of hours of Boston City Council meetings, dockets, and votes into plain-language summaries you can browse by issue, neighborhood, councilor, meeting, or docket.
Konzerte, Theater, Märkte, Ausstellungen und Familienprogramm – aus vielen Quellen zusammengeführt, kostenlos durchsuchbar und nach Datum sortiert.
Displaying old photographs of Mishima City as a digital archive on the web.
App visualizing prefectural-level vaccination data via choropleth maps using government open data.
Open-data service to read public-relations magazines from municipalities nationwide on smartphones