Field Guide Intel is our research arm. We’ve learned a lot over the course of assembling a case library of 10,000 projects using tech, data, and design to make the world better. We’ll use this experience and information to jump-start your project.
You can commission us to produce insightful, immediate, and incredibly thorough analysis for your needs. We efficiently conduct market landscapes and industry reports, with a keen eye on emerging technologies. We also consult on naming and branding, user research, qualitative interviews with analysis, quantitative surveys, and ideation.
Since 2014, we’ve tracked relevant initiatives across sectors. That experience will immediately benefit your own efforts. Whether you’re looking for relevant tools, projects, data, or organizations, our data products and extensive global practitioner network will help us provide you actionable information. We’re savvy about the challenges, and we’re basically a walking encyclopedia on the topics you’re interested in.
Led by Curator Matt Stempeck, Field Guide Intel helps funders, founders, activists, and researchers navigate these emerging fields and inform critical strategic decisions.
Explore our previous research, and get in touch to share more about what you’re looking to achieve.
Civic Tech Field Guide research:
- Common civic tech needs across global contexts. Presented at The Impacts of Civic Tech Conference (TICTeC) London 2024. Blog post write-up and presentation video.
- Disinformation and Civic Tech Get the playbook and read deep-dive case studies from around the world. Published in December 2022 with Code for All.
- Longevity in Civic Tech. Presented at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference in March, 2020 by Micah Sifry and Matt Stempeck.
- A Timeline of Civic Tech Tells a Data-Driven Story of the Field. Presented at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference in March, 2019 by Sruti Modekurty, Aliya Bhatia, Matt Stempeck, and Micah Sifry.
- Learning from the Civic Tech Graveyard. Presented at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference in April, 2018 by Micah Sifry and Matt Stempeck.
- 10 Problems with Impact Measurement in Civic Tech. Presented at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference in April, 2018 by Matt Stempeck and Micah Sifry.
- Co-authored Pathways Through the Portal, a field scan of emerging technologies in the public interest.
Related research by Field Guide Curator Matt Stempeck:
- Produced internal research for a major civic tech funder on exciting civic tech trends and initiatives in Europe.
- Produced internal research for a major civic tech funder on the limits of contemporary fact-checking and disinformation-fighting efforts.
- Produced internal research for a major civic tech funder aggregating and visualizing data on the sharing economy, including analysis.
- Led a global survey of the Code for All network with NDI to understand how their member organizations are effectively confronting digital disinformation around the world. You can read the Disinformation and Civic Tech Playbook, and watch the full report presentation event.
- Co-developed Mozilla Foundation‘s Movement Building Landscape Analysis at the intersection of AI and social justice.
- Conducted extensive internal research on digital participation platforms for the OECD.
- Wrote People Powered’s Guide to Digital Participation Platforms.
- Co-authored the public engagement chapter of Rebooting NYC: An Urban Tech Agenda for the Next Administration.
- Wrote and built Participatory Aid, my MIT Media Lab Master’s thesis, where I developed a taxonomy of all the ways people use technology to deliver mutual aid in crisis situations.
- Find out more about Matt’s background, projects, and civic tech writing on his personal website.