We’re always adding new and existing civic tech projects to the global collection. Below are the 50 most recently added entries to the Civic Tech Field Guide.
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Blacklight
A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled
New York, NY, USA...
Online Deliberation Singapore (ODSG)
- dl.acm.org
- Citizen Engagement, Debate, Engagement tech, Public input and engagement tools, Soliciting new ideas, Surveys
A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation
Lower Kent Ridge Road, Nationa...
Cofact
Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking
Bangkok, Thailand...
Vote62
Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement
Bangkok, Thailand...
GovQA Public Records Management
Creating a system that makes it easy to store, manage, and search for public records.
900 South Frontage Road, Woodr...
Purple Air
- www2.purpleair.com
- Citizen science, Emerging Tech Tools, High-tech civic tech, Sensors, Tech for public challenges
A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.
110 West 13800 South, Draper, ...
Women Who Drone
A community of female drone pilots, enthusiasts, content creators and innovators. Fly, learn and contribute with us!
Women Who Drone, West Street, ...
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 Sanford School...
Tech & Check Conference
- reporterslab.org
- Conferences, Emerging Tech Conferences, Emtech, Factchecking, Fight disinformation, Media
As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.
Duke University, Durham, NC, U...
NeMO-Net
NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.
NASA, East Nasa Parkway, Houst...
Chicago Test Out
This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.
Chicago, IL, USA...
A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide
Cyd Harrell's onboarding manual & survival guide for practitioners in the field.
App Inventor for social innovation
Learn to make apps for Android devices by doing projects that can help people in your community.
Beautiful Rising
Inspired by the concept of a “pattern language,” Beautiful Rising teases out the key elements of creative activism
50+ Digital Jobs for Progressives
Job list maintained by Matt Lockshin. Progressive organizer/campaigner currently based in Canada.
A Simple Civic Tech Evaluation Canvas
It includes the questions we need to answer when creating a Civic Tech tool
Alerta de enchentes
- enchentes.infoamazonia.org
- Adjacent Fields, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Tech for public challenges
The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.
Brazil...
Guide to photographing protests
by @authoritycollective. Do No Harm
COVID19.NYC
A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.
2019 Digital Tools for Trade Unions Report
This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
2017 UK Election Tech Handbook
People building things to influence the UK 2017 General Election
2017 NYC Region Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP)
Mapping civic environmental stewardship
#StopTheCoup UK
Resist the Parliament Shutdown. protest map, calendar, updates, posters.
United Kingdom...
Belisar.io
A bot of legislative proximity that seeks to promote communication between government and citizens through artificial intelligence.
CoVIg-19 Plasma Bot
- www.covig-19plasmaalliance.org
- Artificial intelligence, Bots, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Engagement tech, High-tech civic tech, Resource matching and sharing, The Tech
Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones
AnalogFolk
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework For Public Agency Accountability
- ainowinstitute.org
- Algorithmic transparency, Artificial intelligence, Evaluate impact, Externalities of tech, High-tech civic tech, Responsible tech, The Tech
A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
A+ Alliance
- aplusalliance.org
- Artificial intelligence, High-tech civic tech, Meet the others, Peer networks, Socialize online, The People, The Tech
A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
2020 Political Atlas
- www.political-atlas.com
- Civic data, Civic maps, Data visualization, Engagement tech, Mapping, Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech, Voting and elections
Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.
COVID Challenge Platform
- www.covidchallenges.org
- Challenges, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Government Projects, Get funding, The People
The COVID Challenge Platform is a no-cost clearinghouse to connect healthcare and government agencies to the resources they urgently need to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
AI Myths
- www.aimyths.org
- Adjacent Fields, Artificial intelligence, Digital literacy, High-tech civic tech, The Tech
With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.
Digital Health Lab
- health.meedan.com
- Coronavirus, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Fight disinformation, Media, The Tech
At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.
Congregate
A dynamic platform for online gatherings
European Commission Recommendation for Coronavirus response mobile data and apps
A common EU approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile data in response to the coronavirus pandemic
European Commission...
Lokale Geschäfte in Berlin Karte
A map of local restaurants offering pick-up and delivery
Berlin...
Bad News
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
Areyousafe.work
An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace
1,560,000
- 1560000.org
- Advocacy tech, Civic data, Open data publishing platforms, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
Explore the history of asset declarations of public officials by filtering by name, institution and year of declaration.
bldg.app
- beta.bldg.app
- Activism aggregators, Advocacy tech, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Engagement tech, Neighborhood forums, Online forums, The Tech
A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.
Berliner Gehwegbreiten
- gehwege.citylab-berlin.org
- Civic data, Civic maps, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, Data visualization, Mapping, The Tech
A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData
CityLAB Berlin...
Corona-Datenspende-App
- www.rki.de
- Civic data, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Data Projects, Crowdsourced data collection, The Tech
Hände waschen, Abstand halten, Daten spenden - Ihr Beitrag gegen Corona
#NamingTheLost
A 24-Hour Live Stream COVID Vigil
COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
Google shares aggregate location data with public officials to show where stay-in-place orders are being followed
Apolitical’s Future Skills Tracker
Apolitical’s Future Skills Tracker is a quick, easy tool you can use to work out which are your strongest abilities — and which you should focus on for development to future-proof your career.
Apple Maps COVID-19 Testing Locations
- register.apple.com
- Civic data, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Data Projects, Crowdsourced data collection, Mapping tools, The Tech
As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.
Ask Nameesa
- m.facebook.com
- Artificial intelligence, Bots, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Engagement Projects, High-tech civic tech, The Tech
Nameesa, which is an AI powered conversational and personal engagement platform that automatically responds to people inquiries about Coronavirus (COVID-19) with information from credible sources such as WHO and Ministry of Health.
Alidade
To create a plan for finding technology tools that suit your social change project.
Grundsicherung in Berlin
- odis-berlin.de
- Civic data, Civic maps, Data visualization, Engagement tech, Get social benefits, Mapping, The Tech
Berlinweit gibt es ca. 84.000 Menschen die staatliche Unterstützung in Form von Grundsicherung zur Sicherung ihres Lebensunterhalts bekommen.