Civic Tech Field Guide
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Lichen

A home online for your communities, built around the places you care about. Everything on Lichen is pinned to a real place, and you compose your own patch of the map: where you live, where you work, the village your parents live in, all in one feed.

2026

Ares Nova

Ares Nova is a global community nation where professionals, entrepreneurs, researchers, technologists, educators, creators, and local changemakers exchange knowledge, opportunity, and practical help.

2026

Tokyo Open Data Community

The Tokyo Open Data Community is a Tokyo Metropolitan Government-run community that connects open-data users, civic technologists, startups, academics, with each other and with the city, to surface data needs, share reuse examples, and spur services built on Tokyo's open data.

Tokyo

Code for Funabashi

Code for Funabashi is a volunteer civic-tech brigade, officially recognized by Code for Japan, that connects local people who have technical skills with residents' needs to build useful ICT tools for Funabashi, Japan.

Funabashi City, Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

Code for Toyama City

Voluntary group proposing tech-driven improvements to life in Toyama City.

Toyama City, Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

The Apptivists

The Apptivists is an organizing effort gathering activist developers into a Discord community to brainstorm civic project ideas, prioritize the most promising, and collaboratively ship quick MVPs, with an in-progress real-time boycott app as its first pitch.

2026

re:power Community

This is your central hub to connect with alumni, build skills that matter, share jobs and resources, and realign with purpose.

USA
2026

Take Back Tech

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, artists, tech workers, academics, lawyers, and more to rally together and strategize our next power-building moves.

Atlanta, GA, USA

Impact Connect

Monthly 1-on-1 conversations between professionals working on meaningful challenges.

Global