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Predecessors Pioneers

Explore 50 projects in the Predecessors Pioneers category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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https://civic-tech-timeline.github.io/ActiveOpen-source

Civic Tech & Design Timeline

A crowdsourced US timeline of civic tech as a field

2018
Predecessors & Pioneers
https://www.ushahidi.com/Active

Ushahidi

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

Nairobi
2008
Communicating with the government, Crowdsourcing, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Engagement tech, Issue reporting, Mapping, Mapping platforms, Predecessors & Pioneers, The Tech
https://civicrm.org/Active

CiviCRM

CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team

San Francisco
2005
CRM, General purpose open source tools, Manage volunteers, Organize campaigns, Predecessors & Pioneers
https://www.smartvote.ch/Active

Smartvote

smartvote BePart ist eine partizipative Plattform. Über diese Plattform können Bürger/-innen aktiv an der Gestaltung des smartvote-Fragebogens für ihre Wahl teilnehmen und ihre eigenen Ideen und Fragen einbringen.

Switzerland
2003
Engagement tech, Matching views to votes, Parliamentary and legislative tech, Participatory democracy, Predecessors & Pioneers, The Tech
https://www.eff.org/Active

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
1990
Digital rights, Emerging Tech report orgs, Predecessors & Pioneers