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It's primarily <a href="/">a crowdsourced directory</a> where you can find helpful resources and inspiration, and share your own work with the world. We also publish <a href="/research">research</a> and <a href="/subscribe">regular updates</a> about the state of the field.</p> 9<p>Democracy advocates use the Civic Tech Field Guide to find tools and partners. Builders use it to find open source code, data, and inspiration. Students use it to learn about the field. Job-seekers use it to find their next career move. Funders use it to ensure they're supporting truly original or impactful projects. Researchers use it to better understand the field and its triumphs and challenges. Organizations use it to <a href="/add/">share their work</a> with a wider community.</p> 10<p>Explore the sections below to learn more:</p> 11 12<h4><a href="#why">Why maintain a collection of democracy tech projects?</a></h4> 13<h4><a href="#get-involved">How you can get involved</a></h4> 14<h4><a href="#legal-structure">Legal structure</a></h4> 15<h4><a href="#philosophy">Philosophy</a></h4> 16<h4><a href="#terminology">Terminology</a></h4> 17<h4><a href="#history-of-field-guide">History of the Field Guide</a></h4> 18<h4><a href="#team">Team</a></h4> 19<h4><a href="#curators">Curators</a></h4> 20<h4><a href="#inclusion-guidelines">Inclusion Guidelines</a></h4> 21<h4><a href="#data-usage">Data usage</a></h4> 22<h4><a href="#recognition">Recognition</a></h4> 23<h4><a href="#transparency">Transparency</a></h4> 24 25<h2 id="why">Why maintain a collection of democracy tech projects?</h2> 26<p>We're always searching for ways to give everyone fighting for the common good an edge over the competition.</p> 27 28<p>We're inspired by the <a href="/impacttracker/">millions of people</a> practicing digital democracy. They're <a href="/engagement/">connecting citizens</a> to decision-making power, <a href="/govtech/">upgrading government</a>, <a href="/advocacy/">campaigning</a> for a better world, <a href="/civic-data/">opening data</a>, <a href="/media/">powering journalism</a>. They're <a href="/ethical-responsible-tech/">fighting the unethical use of technology</a> itself, like <a href="/listing-category/fight-disinformation">disinformation</a>, while fighting to restore <a href="/listing-category/digital-rights">digital rights</a> and <a href="/listing-category/cybersecurity">cybersecurity</a>.</p> 29 30<p>They're fighting these battles <a href="/world-map">all over the world</a>, from mature democracies to active autocracies. Through creative <a href="/listing-category/games-and-gamification">games</a>, <a href="/listing-category/mapping">maps</a>, and <a href="/listing-category/artistic-interventions">art</a>, they're even having fun doing it. Establishing a <a href="/foundations/">foundation</a> of <a href="/listing-category/civic-literacy">civic</a> and <a href="/listing-category/digital-literacy">digital literacy</a>, <a href="/listing-category/assistive-and-accessible-tech">accessibility</a>, and <a href="/listing-category/diversity-inclusion">inclusion</a>, they're forging new modes of working.</p> 31 32<p>What if there was a place to find each other? To get beyond the narrow, self-serving nomenclature of <em>civic tech</em>, <em>public interest tech</em>, <em>ethical tech</em>, and whatever term comes next? To look past our own borders and silos to gain inspiration from the best?</p> 33 34<p>What if we developed this fledgling sector into a deeply interconnected movement? By helping talent <a href="/jobs/">find jobs</a>, connecting professionals to relevant <a href="/calendar">events and funding opportunities</a>, and introducing generations of <a href="/listing-tag/students">students</a> to <a href="/learn/">learn about this line of work</a> through <a href="/listing-category/academia">academia</a> and <a href="/listing-category/online-courses">online education</a>. Enriching communities, online and in-person, all while <a href="/impact/">evaluating our impact</a> and <a href="/graveyard">learning from what hasn't worked</a>, so we can sustain the things that do.</p> 35 36<p>All while keeping up with the latest possibilities of <a href="/emerging/">emerging tech</a> like <a href="/ai/">AI</a> without accepting its harms as a foregone conclusion. So that we can grow the field of digital democracy, and work together to realize our missions.</p> 37 38<p>Sound worthwhile?</p> 39<p>We help over 50,000 people per month keep up with the latest launches. To develop partnerships with peers fighting <a href="/tags">the same fights</a>. The Civic Tech Field Guide will jump-start your own efforts to <a href="/build-something/">build something</a> with <a href="/listings/search?q=&types%5B%5D=Tool+or+platform&opensource%5B%5D=Yes">open source code</a> and <a href="/civic-data/">freely available data</a>, <a href="/funding/">find funding</a>, not to mention <a href="/hire-us/">pointing you to related efforts</a>.</p> 40 41<h2 id="get-involved" class="wp-block-heading">How you can get involved</h2> 42 43<p>The Civic Tech Field Guide is your map. It's your place to find and be found. And it's as good as you make it.</p> 44 45<ul> 46<li><a href="/volunteer/">Volunteer</a> to improve the open source site and its coverage with your own skills and expertise. (<a href="https://github.com/sprblm/CTFG">Git pull requests</a> welcome!)</li> 47<li><a href="/add/">Promote your work</a> and the work that inspires you.</li> 48<li><a href="https://opencollective.com/civic-tech-field-guide/donate?interval=oneTime&amount=50&contributeAs=me">Fund this digital commons resource</a> to keep it online and available to all.</li> 49<li><a href="/contact">Drop us a note</a>, we'd love to hear from you.</li> 50<li><a href="/">Subscribe to updates</a>
50 -- we send emails a few times per month.</li> 51<li>We post open jobs on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/72764648/">our LinkedIn page</a>, events and deadlines on <a href="https://urbanists.social/@civictech">Mastodon</a> and <a href="https://x.com/civictechguide">X</a>, and community stickers on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/civictechguide">Instagram</a>.</li> 52</ul> 53 54<h2 id="legal-structure">Legal structure</h2> 55<p>We are fiscally sponsored by <a href="https://superbloom.design/">Superbloom Design</a>, a US 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.</p> 56<p>The Civic Tech Field Guide is led by its Curator, <a href="https://www.mattstempeck.com/">Matt Stempeck</a>.</p> 57 58<h2 id="philosophy"><strong>Philosophy</strong></h2> 59<p>We have many challenges facing democracies and the world at large, and it's our belief that we need more people contributing more productively to improving things. This belief drives our core values of:</p> 60 61<ul> 62<li>A global perspective, as we can all learn from others' work.</li> 63 64<li>Making our resources as available as possible through open source code, open data licensing, and strong accessibility.</li> 65 66<li>Inclusively pointing to helpful resources others have created, even and especially if they're doing work that's similar to our own.</li> 67 68<li>Providing an archival <a href="/graveyard">memory of the field</a> that's too often missing, so we can learn from our past mistakes and get better at what we do, rather than brush failures under the carpet.</li> 69</ul> 70<h2 id="terminology"><strong>Terminology</strong></h2> 71 72<p>We take <a href="https://www.mattstempeck.com/2015/05/05/what-is-civic-tech/">a broad definition of 'civic tech'</a>: the use of newly available possibilities for the common good. The field has had many names over the years, often driven by powerful actors in the field, and we try not to get bogged down in semantics. "The common good" can be thought of as pro-social activity, things that help other people, things that address shared challenges rather than private challenges.</p> 73 74<p>You can learn more about <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/04/27/towards-taxonomy-civic-technology/">the original motivation for the Civic Tech Field Guide here</a>.</p> 75 76<h2 id="history-of-field-guide" class="wp-block-heading">History of the Field Guide</h2> 77 78<p>The Field Guide was conceived in early 2016 by <a href="https://twitter.com/mlsif">Micah Sifry</a>, co-founder of Civic Hall, Matt Stempeck (then the Director of Civic Technology at Microsoft), and <a href="https://twitter.com/esmpsn?lang=en">Erin Simpson</a>, then at Civic Hall Labs. This team created the <a href="http://bit.ly/organizecivictech">first edition of the Field Guide</a>, an open spreadsheet.</p> 79 80<p>After this initial prototype gained considerable traction and validated the need for the resource, Stempeck developed the project into a full directory in 2018 under the auspices of <a href="http://civichall.org/">Civic Hall</a> with support from<span style="font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);">Â </span><a style="font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);" href="https://knightfoundation.org/">Knight Foundation,</a> <a style="font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);" href="https://luminategroup.com/">Luminate</a><span style="font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);">, and </span><a style="font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);" href="https://www.mcgovern.org/">Patrick J. McGovern Foundation</a><span style="font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);">.</span></p> 81 82<p>In 2020, Stempeck spun the project out of Civic Hall and independently sustained it for the next two years. In 2022, the National Endowment for Democracy provided critical support to revamp and activate the project, making its resources readily available to people fighting for democracy all over the world.</p> 83 84<p>Today, the Civic Tech Field Guide is the most comprehensive collection of tech projects for the public interest and democracy, anywhere. Its continued success is thanks to the ongoing leadership by Stempeck and a growing community of contributors.</p> 85 86<h2 id="team" class="wp-block-heading">Team</h2> 87 88<p>As a community-led resource, we depend heavily on contributions from volunteers. You can help the project by <a href="https://airtable.com/shrnnLKjtVNT1ZqQ4">volunteering your skills</a>, <a href="https://opencollective.com/civic-tech-field-guide">making a small donation</a>, and <a href="/contribute/#:~:text=know%20about%20it.-,Share%20by%20email,-Share%20on%20Facebook">telling people about it</a>.</p> 89 90<p>In addition to Stempeck's leadership and everyone who has added to this collection over the years, we'd like to acknowledge and thank the following contributors:</p> 91<ul> 92<li>
92Georgia Bullen and the team at <a href="https://superbloom.design/">Superbloom Design</a>, not only for fiscally sponsoring our project but also for providing countless other forms of support that sustain and improve the Field Guide.</li> 93<li><a href="https://devinbalkind.com/bio/">Devin Balkind</a> of <a href="https://sarapis.org/">Sarapis</a> has architected the migration of the Field Guide from an outdated Wordpress site to a modern, open source knowledgebase, and provided advanced technical resources to the project. All of our improvements in usability, accessibility, design, speed, and ease of curating the collection are thanks to Devin's initiative.</li> 94<li><a href="https://twitter.com/b_munyoki">Benjamin Munyoki</a> has led the software development of our open source Directory app. He is a software engineer specializing in web application development, APIs and Fintech. In the last 8 years, Benjamin has implemented several high profile projects and led teams to deliver products that solve societal problems through technology. He also contributes to open source projects in Fintech, the latest being an Mpesa (mobile money) payments integration package for PHP.</li> 95<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elza-dabola-400000195/">Elza Dabola</a> leads special projects, and is improving many of our workflows, including the edit listing flow and our donation process.</li> 96<li>Vitor Pinheiro keeps many things running smoothly, most of all our <a href="/calendar">community calendar</a> of relevant events and application deadlines.</li> 97<li><a href="https://www.carmenmaymothesecond.com/">Carmen Maymó</a> contributed an open source script to automatically check the availability of every link in our collection, flag inactive projects, and provide a replacement link from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This has drastically improved our ability to identify inactive projects.</li> 98<li>Emma Jackson has improved our Sri Lankan project and Peacetech collections, and is working to implement the new design of our directory app.<br /></li> 99<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MarkRenja">Mark Renja</a> reinvigorated our communications campaign, improving both the consistency and quality of our monthly newsletter. Mark was at the time a project manager with Code for Africaâs Engagement team. As an alum of Metaâs 2021/22 Accelerator Challenge for fact-checkers, they help implement growth strategies for PesaCheck â Africaâs largest indigenous fact-checking organisation. They also work with global non-profits Code for All and mySociety to develop accessible products that get the civic tech community to serve more diverse users.</li> 100<li><a href="https://bharatkashyap.github.io/">Bharat Kashyap</a> has helped us integrate project screenshots into our data processing pipeline so that in the near future, every listing in the collection will have a representative image to go with it.</li> 101</ul> 102 103<h3 id="curators" class="wp-block-heading">Curators</h3> 104 105<p>The Civic Tech Field Guide also benefits from expert curators who help keep the collection current from their perspectives and expertise within civic tech.</p> 106 107<p>They are:</p> 108<p><em>By topic</em></p> 109 110<ul> 111<li>Drones for good: Fatima Sarah Khalid</li> 112<li>Access social benefits: Greg Bloom</li> 113<li>Civic data: Deblina Mukherjee</li> 114<li>Connectivity: Georgia Bullen</li> 115<li>Promise trackers: Farhad Souzanchi</li> 116</ul> 117<p><em>By geography</em></p> 118 119<ul> 120<li>Sri Lanka: Emma Jackson</li> 121<li>Colombia: Juliana Uribe Villegas</li> 122<li>Iran: Feiredoon Bashar and ASL19</li> 123<li>Chile: Auska Ovando</li> 124<li>Poland: Aleksandra Kamihska</li> 125<li>Paris and France: Clémence Pène</li> 126<li>Australia: The Code for Australia team</li> 127<li>South Africa: Civic Tech Innovation Network. Previously Melissa Zisengwe and Lailah Ryklief.</li> 128<li>Tunisia: Wafa Ben-Hassine</li> 129<li>United Kingdom: Gemma Humphrys and the mySociety team</li> 130<li>México: Alma Rangel and the Codeando México team</li> 131<li>Washington, DC: Meag Doherty</li> 132<li>Thailand: Opendream</li> 133</ul> 134 135<h2 id="inclusion-guidelines" class="wp-block-heading">Inclusion Guidelines</h2> 136 137<p>As a crowdsourced collection, we try to be as inclusive as possible. Our priority is to focus on projects using tech and innovation to meaningfully shift power in society from the few to the many. We take an intentionally global view in our work, and fight silos of every kind.</p> 138 139<p>We will include projects from across the political spectrum as long as they can inform about the role of technology in democracy.</p> 140 141<p>We will not include projects that:</p> 142 143<ul> 144<li>are unrelated to this field</li> 145 146<li>
146could harm people</li> 147 148<li>are purely commercial with no apparent public benefit</li> 149 150<li>don't want to be found by others</li> 151</ul> 152 153<p>We reserve the right to curate the collection so that it's of use to our users.</p> 154 155<h2 id="data-usage" class="wp-block-heading">Data usage</h2> 156 157<p>As a policy, we only want to include public projects (publicly available URLs) and we refrain from collecting any personally identifiable information, other than publicly available information about the name of a project's founder or author, and a contact email address, if the project owner provided it in order to stay in touch.</p> 158 159<p class="has-red-background-color has-background">If you find any information about yourself that you would like removed, simply click the "Suggest a change" button on every listing and make a request, and we will comply.</p> 160 161<p>We reserve the right to catalog publicly available information to better inform the field.</p> 162 163<p>If you find your own project(s) in the collection and would like to improve or update how they are presented, you can click the "Claim This Listing" button on every listing page to get in touch.</p> 164 165<h3><strong>Third party services</strong></h3> 166 167<p>We use Google Analytics to understand aggregated trends in which content is most popular, Mailchimp to communicate with people who sign up for our email list, and Airtable to collect and organize our database. In all cases we turn off features that might impinge on user privacy wherever possible.</p> 168 169<h2 id="recognition" class="wp-block-heading">Recognition</h2> 170 171<p>We're proud to have been featured and cited in the following books and resources:</p> 172 173<h4>Books</h4> 174 175<ul> 176<li><a href="https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=fymqDwAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PR2">Civic Power, Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis</a></li> 177 178<li><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691216638/power-to-the-public">Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology</a></li> 179 180<li><a href="https://cydharrell.com/book/">A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide</a></li> 181 182<li><a href="https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787691391">The Right to the Smart City</a></li> 183 184<li><a href="https://carnegieeurope.eu/2021/10/07/rebuilding-european-democracy-resistance-and-renewal-in-illiberal-age-pub-85486">Rebuilding European Democracy: Resistance and Renewal in an Illiberal Age</a></li> 185 186<li><a href="https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/REE/article/view/7213/7575">Error 404: ¿Preparados para un mundo sin internet?</a></li> 187 188<li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547215/how-we-give-now/">How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us</a></li> 189</ul> 190 191<h4><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22civic+tech+field+guide%22&btnG=">Scholarly citations</a></h4> 192 193<h4>Online</h4> 194 195<ul> 196<li><a href="/new-pod-dropped/"><em>Civic Tech in Africa</em> podcast</a></li> 197<li><a href="https://www.govtech.com/icymi/the-civic-tech-field-guide-with-matt-stempeck-icymi"><em>GovTech ICYMI</em> podcast</a></li> 198<li><a href="https://democracy-technologies.org/participation/civic-tech-field-guide/">Interview with <em>Democracy Technologies</em></a></li> 199<li><a href="https://humanrightsconnected.org/?s=civic+tech+field+guide">Human Rights Connected Activist Toolkit</a></li> 200 201<li><a href="https://digitalprinciples.org/digital-development-dictionary/">Principles for Digital Development</a></li> 202 203<li><a href="https://blog.techsoup.org/posts/can-chatgpt-help-my-nonprofit">TechSoup</a></li> 204<li><a href="https://cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/resources/civic-tech-field-guide">European Commission Community of Practice of the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy</a></li> 205 206<li><a href="https://participationpool.eu/resource/civic-tech-field-guide/">Erasmus SALTO Participation Pool</a></li> 207 208<li><a href="https://www.developimpact.net/technology-tools">Develop Impact</a></li> 209 210<li><a href="https://publicinterest.ai/tool/map">Humboldt University Public Interest AI World Map</a></li> 211 212<li><a href="https://reset.org/was-ist-civic-tech/">Reset: Was Ist Civic Tech?</a></li> 213 214<li><a href="https://opensourcepolitics.eu/actualites/conception-dune
214-assemblee-citoyenne-en-ligne-le-point-de-vue-dun-praticien/">OpenSourcePolitics</a></li> 215 216<li><a href="https://involve.org.uk/resource/where-do-i-start-digital-engagement">Involve UK</a></li> 217 218<li><a href="https://te-st.org/2020/02/19/5-ways-to-learn-all-about-civis-tech/">ТеплиÑе</a></li> 219 220<li><a href="https://tp4.ir/%da%af%d9%88%d9%86%d9%87%e2%80%8c%d8%b4%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3%db%8c-%d9%81%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af%db%8c-%d8%a8%d8%ae%d8%b4-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/">Transparency for Iran</a></li> 221 222<li>Stanford PACS <a href="https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DPI-Consolidated-Resource-Links.pdf">Reclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest</a></li> 223<li>Scottish Government Digital Directorate's <a href="https://www.gov.scot/publications/market-research-existing-civic-technologies-participation/pages/1/">Market research of existing Civic Technologies for participation</a></li> 224<li><a href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/collective-intelligence-through-digital-tools-coldigit/">Collective Intelligence through Digital Tools (COLDIGIT)</a></li> 225</ul> 226 227<h2 id="transparency" class="wp-block-heading">Transparency</h2> 228 229<p>Any sponsored promotion on our website or email newsletter will include a "Partner Content" heading to distinguish it from other content.</p> 230 231<p>Editorial inclusion in the Civic Tech Field Guide is not up for sale; projects will be added or excluded based solely on their relevance to the field. As noted above, we take an inclusive but carefully categorized approach to listing projects.</p> 232 233<h3><strong>Current affiliations:</strong></h3> 234 235<p>In addition to the Civic Tech Field Guide, Matt Stempeck works part-time or on freelance projects with:</p> 236 237<ul> 238<li>Librarian, <a href="https://newspeak.house/about">London College of Political Technology</a> at Newspeak House (2023 - )</li> 239 240<li>Superbloom Coaching network (2023 -)</li> 241<li><a href="/auditing-civic-ai/">NGI Search project together with Eticas</a> (2024-25)</li> 242 243<li>mySociety's <a href="https://tictec.mysociety.org/">TICTeC program</a> (2022 - )</li> 244 245<li>Bad Idea Factory (2019 - )</li> 246</ul> 247 248<h3><strong>Past affiliations: </strong></h3> 249 250<p>Matt has worked with the following organizations related to civic tech, usually on a freelance basis. Whenever possible, the fruits of this work go into refreshing and improving the Field Guide.</p> 251 252<ul> 253<li>People Powered and Google Jigsaw (2024)</li> 254 255<li>Cornell University's <a href="https://www.pi.tech.cornell.edu/">Public Interest Tech program</a> (2020 - 2023)</li> 256 257<li>Internal research, Luminate Strategic Initiative (2023)</li> 258 259<li>Advisory Board, <a href="https://civicai.uk/">the Civic AI Observatory</a> (2023 - 2024)</li> 260 261<li>Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (2023): Wrote an essay on civic tech in the US.</li> 262 263<li>Democracy Technologies magazine contributor (2023-24)</li> 264 265<li>Code for All (2022)</li> 266 267<li>OEN (2022)</li> 268 269<li>Mozilla Foundation (2019 - 2021)</li> 270 271<li>People Powered (2021)</li> 272 273<li>OECD (2019)</li> 274 275<li>Civic Hall (2018-2020)</li> 276 277<li>Knight Foundation (2017)</li> 278 279<li>Hillary for America (2016)</li> 280 281<li>Engagement Lab at Emerson College, unpaid advisory board (2016)</li> 282 283<li>Microsoft Technology & Civic Engagement (2014 - 2017)</li> 284 285<li>Google Social Impact (2013 - 2014)</li> 286 287<li>Voto Latino (2014)</li> 288 289<li>MIT Center for Civic Media (2011 - 2013)</li> 290 291<li>Personal Democracy Media (2013)</li> 292 293<li>Youth & Participatory Politics program, MacArthur Foundation (2013)</li> 294</ul></div></div></div><!--$--><!--/$--><footer class="relative overflow-hidden px-5 md:px-10 pt-14 pb-[60px] bg-bg-alt [background-image:radial-gradient(120%_120%_at_-5%_35%,rgba(103,245,194,.85),transparent_48%),radial-gradient(90%_110%_at_6%_105%,rgba(103,245,194,.6),transparent_55%),radial-gradient(80%_90%_at_102%_88%,rgba(103,245,194,.45),transparent_50%),radial-gradient(60%_70%_at_95%_0%,rgba(103,245,194,.3),transparent_50%)]"><div class="relative z-[1] max-w-[1440px] mx-auto"><div class="grid grid-cols-[minmax(200px,auto)_minmax(300px,560px)_minmax(240px,1fr)] items-center gap-10 lg:gap-x-16 pb-[30px] max-lg:grid-cols-1 max-lg:gap-7 max-lg:justify-items-center max-lg:text-center"><div class="text-h2 font-medium tracking-[-0.01em] max-w-[14ch] max-lg:max-w-none">Stay up to date with the latest</div><form class="relative flex items-center w-full max-w-[560px] h-14 pl-[18px] pr-[5px] rounded-pill bg-bg border-[1.5px] border-ink shadow-pill" action="https://guide.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post" target="_blank"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="cdb853c4847acff0d0a09460d"/><input type="hidden" name="id" value="ca5a70438b"/><input type="email" required="" placeholder="Drop your email, join our letterâ¦" class="flex-1 min-w-0 bg-transparent outline-none text-sm text-ink placeholder:text-ink-soft" name="EMAIL"/><input type="text" tabindex="-1" autoComplete="off" aria-hidden="true" class="absolute -left-[5000px]" name="b_
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294<script type="787f80504dfa2b2773af5a36-text/javascript">self.__next_f.push([1,"\u003ch2\u003eWelcome\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Civic Tech Field Guide is the world's most complete collection of projects, tools, and organizations using tech for democracy. It's primarily \u003ca href=\"/\"\u003ea crowdsourced directory\u003c/a\u003e where you can find helpful resources and inspiration, and share your own work with the world. We also publish \u003ca href=\"/research\"\u003eresearch\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/subscribe\"\u003eregular updates\u003c/a\u003e about the state of the field.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemocracy advocates use the Civic Tech Field Guide to find tools and partners. Builders use it to find open source code, data, and inspiration. Students use it to learn about the field. Job-seekers use it to find their next career move. Funders use it to ensure they're supporting truly original or impactful projects. Researchers use it to better understand the field and its triumphs and challenges. Organizations use it to \u003ca href=\"/add/\"\u003eshare their work\u003c/a\u003e with a wider community.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore the sections below to learn more:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#why\"\u003eWhy maintain a collection of democracy tech projects?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#get-involved\"\u003eHow you can get involved\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#legal-structure\"\u003eLegal structure\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#philosophy\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#terminology\"\u003eTerminology\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#history-of-field-guide\"\u003eHistory of the Field Guide\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#team\"\u003eTeam\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#curators\"\u003eCurators\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#inclusion-guidelines\"\u003eInclusion Guidelines\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#data-usage\"\u003eData usage\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#recognition\"\u003eRecognition\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"#transparency\"\u003eTransparency\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"why\"\u003eWhy maintain a collection of democracy tech projects?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe're always searching for ways to give everyone fighting for the common good an edge over the competition.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe're inspired by the \u003ca href=\"/impacttracker/\"\u003emillions of people\u003c/a\u003e practicing digital democracy. They're \u003ca href=\"/engagement/\"\u003econnecting citizens\u003c/a\u003e to decision-making power, \u003ca href=\"/govtech/\"\u003eupgrading government\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/advocacy/\"\u003ecampaigning\u003c/a\u003e for a better world, \u003ca href=\"/civic-data/\"\u003eopening data\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/media/\"\u003epowering journalism\u003c/a\u003e. They're \u003ca href=\"/ethical-responsible-tech/\"\u003efighting the unethical use of technology\u003c/a\u003e itself, like \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/fight-disinformation\"\u003edisinformation\u003c/a\u003e, while fighting to restore \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/digital-rights\"\u003edigital rights\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/cybersecurity\"\u003ecybersecurity\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey're fighting these battles \u003ca href=\"/world-map\"\u003eall over the world\u003c/a\u003e, from mature democracies to active autocracies. Through creative \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/games-and-gamification\"\u003egames\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/mapping\"\u003emaps\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/artistic-interventions\"\u003eart\u003c/a\u003e, they're even having fun doing it. Establishing a \u003ca href=\"/foundations/\"\u003efoundation\u003c/a\u003e of \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/civic-literacy\"\u003ecivic\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/digital-literacy\"\u003edigital literacy\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/assistive-and-accessible-tech\"\u003eaccessibility\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/diversity-inclusion\"\u003einclusion\u003c/a\u003e, they're forging new modes of working.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if there was a place to find each other? To get beyond the narrow, self-serving nomenclature of \u003cem\u003ecivic tech\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003epublic interest tech\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eethical tech\u003c/em\u003e, and whatever term comes next? To look past our own borders and silos to gain inspiration from the best?\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if we developed this fledgling sector into a deeply interconnected movement? By helping talent \u003ca href=\"/jobs/\"\u003efind jobs\u003c/a\u003e, connecting professionals to relevant \u003ca href=\"/calendar\"\u003eevents and funding opportunities\u003c/a\u003e, and introducing generations of \u003ca href=\"/listing-tag/students\"\u003estudents\u003c/a\u003e to \u003ca href=\"/learn/\"\u003elearn about this line of work\u003c/a\u003e through \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/academia\"\u003eacademia\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/listing-category/online-courses\"\u003eonline education\u003c/a\u003e. Enriching communities, online and in-person, all while \u003ca href=\"/impact/\"\u003eevaluating our impact\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/graveyard\"\u003elearning from what hasn't worked\u003c/a\u003e, so we can sustain the things that do.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll while keeping up with the latest possibilities of \u003ca href=\"/emerging/\"\u003eemerging tech\u003c/a\u003e like \u003ca href=\"/ai/\"\u003eAI\u003c/a\u003e without accepting its harms as a foregone conclusion. So that we can grow the field of digital democracy, and work together to realize our missions.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSound worthwhile?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe help over 50,000 people per month keep up with the latest launches. To develop partnerships with peers fighting \u003ca href=\"/tags\"\u003ethe same fights\u003c/a\u003e. The Civic Tech Field Guide will jump-start your own efforts to \u003ca href=\"/build-something/\"\u003ebuild something\u003c/a\u003e with \u003ca href=\"/listings/search?q=\u0026amp;types%5B%5D=Tool+or+platform\u0026amp;
294opensource%5B%5D=Yes\"\u003eopen source code\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/civic-data/\"\u003efreely available data\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/funding/\"\u003efind funding\u003c/a\u003e, not to mention \u003ca href=\"/hire-us/\"\u003epointing you to related efforts\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"get-involved\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eHow you can get involved\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Civic Tech Field Guide is your map. It's your place to find and be found. And it's as good as you make it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/volunteer/\"\u003eVolunteer\u003c/a\u003e to improve the open source site and its coverage with your own skills and expertise. (\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/sprblm/CTFG\"\u003eGit pull requests\u003c/a\u003e welcome!)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/add/\"\u003ePromote your work\u003c/a\u003e and the work that inspires you.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://opencollective.com/civic-tech-field-guide/donate?interval=oneTime\u0026amp;amount=50\u0026amp;contributeAs=me\"\u003eFund this digital commons resource\u003c/a\u003e to keep it online and available to all.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/contact\"\u003eDrop us a note\u003c/a\u003e, we'd love to hear from you.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/\"\u003eSubscribe to updates\u003c/a\u003e -- we send emails a few times per month.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe post open jobs on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/72764648/\"\u003eour LinkedIn page\u003c/a\u003e, events and deadlines on \u003ca href=\"https://urbanists.social/@civictech\"\u003eMastodon\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/civictechguide\"\u003eX\u003c/a\u003e, and community stickers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/civictechguide\"\u003eInstagram\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"legal-structure\"\u003eLegal structure\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are fiscally sponsored by \u003ca href=\"https://superbloom.design/\"\u003eSuperbloom Design\u003c/a\u003e, a US 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Civic Tech Field Guide is led by its Curator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mattstempeck.com/\"\u003eMatt Stempeck\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"philosophy\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophy\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have many challenges facing democracies and the world at large, and it's our belief that we need more people contributing more productively to improving things. This belief drives our core values of:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA global perspective, as we can all learn from others' work.\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMaking our resources as available as possible through open source code, open data licensing, and strong accessibility.\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eInclusively pointing to helpful resources others have created, even and especially if they're doing work that's similar to our own.\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eProviding an archival \u003ca href=\"/graveyard\"\u003ememory of the field\u003c/a\u003e that's too often missing, so we can learn from our past mistakes and get better at what we do, rather than brush failures under the carpet.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"terminology\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerminology\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe take \u003ca href=\"https://www.mattstempeck.com/2015/05/05/what-is-civic-tech/\"\u003ea broad definition of 'civic tech'\u003c/a\u003e: the use of newly available possibilities for the common good. The field has had many names over the years, often driven by powerful actors in the field, and we try not to get bogged down in semantics. \"The common good\" can be thought of as pro-social activity, things that help other people, things that address shared challenges rather than private challenges.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou can learn more about \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/04/27/towards-taxonomy-civic-technology/\"\u003ethe original motivation for the Civic Tech Field Guide here\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"history-of-field-guide\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eHistory of the Field Guide\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Field Guide was conceived in early 2016 by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mlsif\"\u003eMicah Sifry\u003c/a\u003e, co-founder of Civic Hall, Matt Stempeck (then the Director of Civic Technology at Microsoft), and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/esmpsn?lang=en\"\u003eErin Simpson\u003c/a\u003e, then at Civic Hall Labs. This team created the \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/organizecivictech\"\u003efirst edition of the Field Guide\u003c/a\u003e, an open spreadsheet.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter this initial prototype gained considerable traction and validated the need for the resource, Stempeck developed the project into a full directory in 2018 under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"http://civichall.org/\"\u003eCivic Hall\u003c/a\u003e with support from\u003cspan style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);\"\u003e \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);\" href=\"https://knightfoundation.org/\"\u003eKnight Foundation,\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);\" href=\"https://luminategroup.com/\"\u003eLuminate\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);\"\u003e, and \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);\" href=\"https://www.mcgovern.org/\"\u003ePatrick J. McGovern Foundation\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary);\"\u003e.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, Stempeck spun the project out of Civic Hall and independently sustained it for the next two years. In 2022, the National Endowment for Democracy provided critical support to revamp and activate the project, making its resources readily available to people fighting for democracy all over the world.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the Civic Tech Field Guide is the most comprehensive collection of tech projects for the public interest and democracy, anywhere. Its continued success is thanks to the ongoing leadership by Stempeck and a growing community of contributors.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"team\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eTeam\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a community-led resource, we depend heavily on contributions from volunteers. You can help the project by \u003ca href=\"https://airtable.com/shrnnLKjtVNT1ZqQ4\"\u003evolunteering your skills\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://opencollective.com/civic-tech-field-guide\"\u003emaking a small donation\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"/contribute/#:~:text=know%20about%20it.-,Share%20by%20email,-Share%20on%20Facebook\"\u003etelling people about it\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Stempeck's leadership and everyone who has added to this collection over the years, we'd like to acknowledge and thank the following contributors:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorgia Bullen and the team at \u003ca href=\"https://superbloom.design/\"\u003eSuperbloom Design\u003c/a\u003e, not only for fiscally sponsoring our project but also for providing countless other forms of support that sustain and improve the Field Guide.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://devinbalkind.com/bio/\"\u003eDevin Balkind\u003c/a\u003e of \u003ca href=\"https://sarapis.org/\"\u003eSarapis\u003c/a\u003e has architected the migration of the Field Guide from an outdated Wordpress site to a modern, open source knowledgebase, and provided advanced technical resources to the project. All of our improvements in usability, accessibility, design, speed, and ease of curating the collection are thanks to Devin's initiative.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/b_munyoki\"\u003eBenjamin Munyoki\u003c/a\u003e has led the softw
294are development of our open source Directory app. He is a software engineer specializing in web application development, APIs and Fintech. In the last 8 years, Benjamin has implemented several high profile projects and led teams to deliver products that solve societal problems through technology. He also contributes to open source projects in Fintech, the latest being an Mpesa (mobile money) payments integration package for PHP.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/elza-dabola-400000195/\"\u003eElza Dabola\u003c/a\u003e leads special projects, and is improving many of our workflows, including the edit listing flow and our donation process.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVitor Pinheiro keeps many things running smoothly, most of all our \u003ca href=\"/calendar\"\u003ecommunity calendar\u003c/a\u003e of relevant events and application deadlines.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.carmenmaymothesecond.com/\"\u003eCarmen Maymó\u003c/a\u003e contributed an open source script to automatically check the availability of every link in our collection, flag inactive projects, and provide a replacement link from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This has drastically improved our ability to identify inactive projects.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmma Jackson has improved our Sri Lankan project and Peacetech collections, and is working to implement the new design of our directory app.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarkRenja\"\u003eMark Renja\u003c/a\u003e reinvigorated our communications campaign, improving both the consistency and quality of our monthly newsletter. Mark was at the time a project manager with Code for Africaâs Engagement team. As an alum of Metaâs 2021/22 Accelerator Challenge for fact-checkers, they help implement growth strategies for PesaCheck â Africaâs largest indigenous fact-checking organisation. They also work with global non-profits Code for All and mySociety to develop accessible products that get the civic tech community to serve more diverse users.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://bharatkashyap.github.io/\"\u003eBharat Kashyap\u003c/a\u003e has helped us integrate project screenshots into our data processing pipeline so that in the near future, every listing in the collection will have a representative image to go with it.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3 id=\"curators\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eCurators\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Civic Tech Field Guide also benefits from expert curators who help keep the collection current from their perspectives and expertise within civic tech.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy topic\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrones for good: Fatima Sarah Khalid\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccess social benefits: Greg Bloom\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCivic data: Deblina Mukherjee\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnectivity: Georgia Bullen\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePromise trackers: Farhad Souzanchi\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy geography\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSri Lanka: Emma Jackson\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColombia: Juliana Uribe Villegas\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIran: Feiredoon Bashar and ASL19\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChile: Auska Ovando\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoland: Aleksandra Kamihska\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParis and France: Clémence Pène\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralia: The Code for Australia team\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouth Africa: Civic Tech Innovation Network. Previously Melissa Zisengwe and Lailah Ryklief.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTunisia: Wafa Ben-Hassine\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnited Kingdom: Gemma Humphrys and the mySociety team\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMéxico: Alma Rangel and the Codeando México team\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWashington, DC: Meag Doherty\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThailand: Opendream\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"inclusion-guidelines\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eInclusion Guidelines\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a crowdsourced collection, we try to be as inclusive as possible. Our priority is to focus on projects using tech and innovation to meaningfully shift power in society from the few to the many. We take an intentionally global view in our work, and fight silos of every kind.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe will include projects from across the political spectrum as long as they can inform about the role of technology in democracy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe will not include projects that:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eare unrelated to this field\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003ecould harm people\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eare purely commercial with no apparent public benefit\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003edon't want to be found by others\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe reserve the right to curate the collection so that it's of use to our users.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"data-usage\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eData usage\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a policy, we only want to include public projects (publicly available URLs) and we refrain from collecting any personally identifiable information, other than publicly available information about the name of a project's founder or author, and a contact email address, if the project owner provided it in order to stay in touch.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"has-red-background-color has-background\"\u003eIf you find any information about yourself that you would like removed, simply click the \"Suggest a change\" button on every listing and make a request, and we will c
294omply.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe reserve the right to catalog publicly available information to better inform the field.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you find your own project(s) in the collection and would like to improve or update how they are presented, you can click the \"Claim This Listing\" button on every listing page to get in touch.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThird party services\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe use Google Analytics to understand aggregated trends in which content is most popular, Mailchimp to communicate with people who sign up for our email list, and Airtable to collect and organize our database. In all cases we turn off features that might impinge on user privacy wherever possible.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"recognition\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eRecognition\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe're proud to have been featured and cited in the following books and resources:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eBooks\u003c/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=fymqDwAAQBAJ\u0026amp;pg=GBS.PR2\"\u003eCivic Power, Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691216638/power-to-the-public\"\u003ePower to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cydharrell.com/book/\"\u003eA Civic Technologist's Practice Guide\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787691391\"\u003eThe Right to the Smart City\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://carnegieeurope.eu/2021/10/07/rebuilding-european-democracy-resistance-and-renewal-in-illiberal-age-pub-85486\"\u003eRebuilding European Democracy: Resistance and Renewal in an Illiberal Age\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/REE/article/view/7213/7575\"\u003eError 404: ¿Preparados para un mundo sin internet?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547215/how-we-give-now/\"\u003eHow We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en\u0026amp;as_sdt=0%2C5\u0026amp;q=%22civic+tech+field+guide%22\u0026amp;btnG=\"\u003eScholarly citations\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h4\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eOnline\u003c/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/new-pod-dropped/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivic Tech in Africa\u003c/em\u003e podcast\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.govtech.com/icymi/the-civic-tech-field-guide-with-matt-stempeck-icymi\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGovTech ICYMI\u003c/em\u003e podcast\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://democracy-technologies.org/participation/civic-tech-field-guide/\"\u003eInterview with \u003cem\u003eDemocracy Technologies\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsconnected.org/?s=civic+tech+field+guide\"\u003eHuman Rights Connected Activist Toolkit\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://digitalprinciples.org/digital-development-dictionary/\"\u003ePrinciples for Digital Development\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://blog.techsoup.org/posts/can-chatgpt-help-my-nonprofit\"\u003eTechSoup\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/resources/civic-tech-field-guide\"\u003eEuropean Commission Community of Practice of the Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://participationpool.eu/resource/civic-tech-field-guide/\"\u003eErasmus SALTO Participation Pool\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.developimpact.net/technology-tools\"\u003eDevelop Impact\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://publicinterest.ai/tool/map\"\u003eHumboldt University Public Interest AI World Map\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://reset.org/was-ist-civic-tech/\"\u003eReset: Was Ist Civic Tech?\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://opensourcepolitics.eu/actualites/conception-dune
294-assemblee-citoyenne-en-ligne-le-point-de-vue-dun-praticien/\"\u003eOpenSourcePolitics\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://involve.org.uk/resource/where-do-i-start-digital-engagement\"\u003eInvolve UK\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://te-st.org/2020/02/19/5-ways-to-learn-all-about-civis-tech/\"\u003eТеплиÑе\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://tp4.ir/%da%af%d9%88%d9%86%d9%87%e2%80%8c%d8%b4%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3%db%8c-%d9%81%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%b1%db%8c-%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af%db%8c-%d8%a8%d8%ae%d8%b4-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%85/\"\u003eTransparency for Iran\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eStanford PACS \u003ca href=\"https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DPI-Consolidated-Resource-Links.pdf\"\u003eReclaiming Digital Infrastructure for the Public Interest\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScottish Government Digital Directorate's \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.scot/publications/market-research-existing-civic-technologies-participation/pages/1/\"\u003eMarket research of existing Civic Technologies for participation\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://blogs.helsinki.fi/collective-intelligence-through-digital-tools-coldigit/\"\u003eCollective Intelligence through Digital Tools (COLDIGIT)\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"transparency\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003eTransparency\u003c/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAny sponsored promotion on our website or email newsletter will include a \"Partner Content\" heading to distinguish it from other content.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEditorial inclusion in the Civic Tech Field Guide is not up for sale; projects will be added or excluded based solely on their relevance to the field. As noted above, we take an inclusive but carefully categorized approach to listing projects.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCurrent affiliations:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the Civic Tech Field Guide, Matt Stempeck works part-time or on freelance projects with:\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLibrarian, \u003ca href=\"https://newspeak.house/about\"\u003eLondon College of Political Technology\u003c/a\u003e at Newspeak House (2023 - )\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eSuperbloom Coaching network (2023 -)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/auditing-civic-ai/\"\u003eNGI Search project together with Eticas\u003c/a\u003e (2024-25)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003emySociety's \u003ca href=\"https://tictec.mysociety.org/\"\u003eTICTeC program\u003c/a\u003e (2022 - )\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eBad Idea Factory (2019 - )\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePast affiliations: \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatt has worked with the following organizations related to civic tech, usually on a freelance basis. Whenever possible, the fruits of this work go into refreshing and improving the Field Guide.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeople Powered and Google Jigsaw (2024)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eCornell University's \u003ca href=\"https://www.pi.tech.cornell.edu/\"\u003ePublic Interest Tech program\u003c/a\u003e (2020 - 2023)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eInternal research, Luminate Strategic Initiative (2023)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eAdvisory Board, \u003ca href=\"https://civicai.uk/\"\u003ethe Civic AI Observatory\u003c/a\u003e (2023 - 2024)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eFriedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (2023): Wrote an essay on civic tech in the US.\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eDemocracy Technologies magazine contributor (2023-24)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eCode for All (2022)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eOEN (2022)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMozilla Foundation (2019 - 2021)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003ePeople Powered (2021)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eOECD (2019)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eCivic Hall (2018-2020)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eKnight Foundation (2017)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eHillary for America (2016)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eEngagement Lab at Emerson College, unpaid advisory board (2016)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMicrosoft Technology \u0026amp; Civic Engagement (2014 - 2017)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eGoogle Social Impact (2013 - 2014)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eVoto Latino (2014)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eMIT Center for Civic Media (2011 - 2013)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003ePersonal Democracy Media (2013)\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eYouth \u0026amp; Participatory Politics program, MacArthur Foundation (2013)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e"])</script>
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