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Meet the others

Explore 459 projects in the Meet the others category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reasons,” writes Bokonon, “that person may be a member of your karass.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

So much of what became the field of civic tech emerged from gatherings. Meetups with just enough funding to offer some pizza to civic hackers getting together to code and design on a Tuesday night.
Industry and government conferences, where a new generation of technologists huddled in hallways and at bars, strategizing over how to update our democratic institutions. Whether in person, or online, so much of the work of building effective civic tech depends on those you’ll meet in the groups counted in these pages.

459 projects

Co-operation Ireland

Co-operation Ireland is a non-political, non-denominational peacebuilding charity that runs cross-community reconciliation programmes in Northern Ireland and between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Plurality

Plurality is a free community-organizing and event platform that gives organizers tools to plan, run, and follow up on in-person neighborhood gatherings across the United States.

San Francisco
2026

Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #3

The world's largest cypherpunk and human rights event gathering 5000 people in Mumbai to celebrate privacy and internet freedoms in dialogue with Global South.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Maryland

Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone)

Reclone (Reagent Collaboration Network) is an open-science network that stewards and distributes open-source DNA plasmids and molecular-biology reagents to researchers worldwide under open material transfer agreements.

Sparkle Bureaucracy

Sparkle Bureaucracy is a network of people using AI to prototype more optimistic futures.

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
2026

Festival de Tecnologia Popular

Dois dias para descobrir como libertar a tecnologia do sistema económico capitalista e pô-la ao serviço do povo.

Setúbal, Portugal 🇵🇹

Oficina de Democracia e Ecologia Tecnológica (ODET)

Criámos a O.D.E.T. da União Setubalense como um espaço de emancipação aberto a todas as pessoas — novas ou velhas, com ou sem conhecimentos de informática —, para aprendermos e pensarmos em conjunto sobre a tecnologia.

Setúbal, Portugal 🇵🇹

Informational Democracy

A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.

2026

African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA)

The African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) is a network of Africa-based civil society organisations (CSOs) that advance digital rights.