Civic Tech Field Guide
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40 projects

Explain the Law

Provides simple summaries of complex legislation, making them easy for anyone to understand.

USA
https://govlens.euActiveOpen-source

GovLens

An EU legislative transparency platform tracking legislation, MEP roll-call voting records, lobbying meetings, and how EU directives are transposed into national law across the 27 member states.

2026

ClearBill

AI-powered plain English summaries of every Congress bill โ€” making legislation accessible to everyone

USA

Commons Archive of Resistance

The Commons Archive of Resistance catalogues over 200 liberation tools, each evaluated against a Decolonise, Decentralise, Democratise lens rather than summarised at face value.

TheBillRoom.org

Nonpartisan, AI-powered plain-language summaries of U.S. federal and state legislation with conflict-of-interest scoring, campaign finance data, and party defection tracking.

Nashville, TN
2026

Tap Truth

Address-level lookup tool for EPA drinking water violation records.