Civic Tech Field Guide
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California Office of Data & Innovation

Governor's Budget Summary 2020-21

California
Build something, Govtech, Innovation teams and labs, Public sector innovation labs, State and regional government technology, The People, The Tech
state
https://www.civictechnologists.org/Active

Alliance of Civic Technologists (ACT)

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

USA
2023
Civic hacking meetups, Meet the others, Partner networks and coalitions, The People
https://github.com/google/sbsimActiveOpen-source

Google Smart Buildings Control

A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.

Mountain View, CA, USA
Civic data, Environmental data
buildings, Climate action, Google
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=15bUbaKsobajdGL6HLmUpmBuZ_6ILtVQ&hl=en&ll=40.725273278005005%2C-73.99318880939128&z=14Active

New York City Official Public Restrooms Map

THE NYC public toilet Google map

New York City
Civic data, Civic maps
https://datacommons.org/Active

Data Commons

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

Mountain View, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic data, Mapping tools, Natural Language Processing, Open civic data
http://web.archive.org/web/20191002025332/https://www.cityinnovate.org/Active

CityInnovate

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century

San Francisco
Govtech, The Tech
https://www.laserfiche.com/Active

Laserfiche

AI-enabled document management and automation.

Long Beach, CA
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bureaucracy tech, Govtech, Govtech vendors, Public records
https://civicmakers.com/ridiculously-hopeful-futures/Active

Ridiculously Hopeful Futures

Ridiculously Hopeful Future: a bold, slightly wild, and very optimistic project to transform how government social safety net programs are designed.

California
2025
Civic imagination, Communicating with the people, Supporting public sector from outside government
state, workshops, local
https://github.com/google/magritteActiveOpen-source

Magritte

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

Mountain View, CA, USA
Digital security and privacy
videos