We tag civic tech projects with the issue area or domain they address, their format, and their scale. This is an evolving taxonomy, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you see a missing area of work addressed by civic tech projects.

We’ve been gradually introducing this taxonomy, so many of the projects already included in the Civic Tech Field Guide are not yet tagged. If you’d like to help by adding tags, you can do so by creating an account and editing a project Listing.

By issue area

Which domain does the project address?

Agriculture
Air quality
Animals
Anti-racist
Banking
Census
Climate change
Crime
Cycling
Debt
Domestic violence
Domestic work
Earthquakes
Education and edtech
Floods
Gun safety
Harassment
Health
History
Homelessness
Housing
Immigration
Infrastructure
Labor
Land
Libraries
Mass transit
Mobility
Noise pollution
Parks
Peace
Permits
Poverty
Recidivism
Refugees
Sustainability
Taxes
Urban planning
Water quality

By format

How does the project manifest in the world? What is it?

APIs
Apps
Books
Browser extensions
Civic features
Commercial and/or mainstream products
Films
Guides
Legislation
Podcasts
Private data for public good
Reports
Research
Toolkits
Trainings
Videos
Wikis
Workshops

Methodology
Place-based
Tool re-use
Open source

By political unit

What political scale is the project designed to address?

Neighborhoods
Cities
Rural
State and Regional

By audience

Does the project seek to empower a specific audience?

Women
Youth

By current event

Collections of projects that were launched to help with specific historic events.

Coronavirus
Brexit
Hong Kong protests