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Learn About Civic Tech

Explore 405 projects in the Learn About Civic Tech category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

405 projects

Digital Impact

Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA
2012

Open Cities Lab

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa
2015
Access to Information Community of Practice

Bot Populi

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

AI Ethics Initiative

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

Cambridge, MA
2017

Civic Tech in Africa podcast

Civic Tech in Africa with Nathi Mcetywa is a podcast by the Civic Tech Innovation Network. The podcast focuses on the profiling of civic tech initiatives, civic innovators, activists, researchers, social entrepreneurs and others working in the civic tech and other related fields in Africa.

Johannesburg, South Africa
2023

The Reporters’ Lab

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

NYC Open Data Lab

The NYC Open Data Lab is a public-facing initiative that equips students to access, analyze, and publish civic data through reproducible workflows and open-source tools.

Brooklyn, NY

Civic Leadership Academy at U Chicago

The Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.

Chicago, IL
2014

Center for an Informed Public

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USA