Predecessors & Pioneers
Predecessors catalogs the projects and organizations that were early in and important to the development of the field of civic tech.
Occupy Wall Street
NYC Protest for World Revolution
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development.
Sugestões da população para a Assembleia Nacional Constituinte de 1988
Learn about the history of the 72,000 letters sent by citizens to the Brazilian Constitutional Convention and how to consult them, and the Sistema de Apoio Informático à Constituinte (SAIC)
The Leadership LAB
The Leadership LAB works to reduce prejudice and change voters’ hearts and minds. We have a national reputation for our success developing practical, positive, non-partisan, non-judgmental ways to con...
WriteToThem
Email your Councillor, MP, MSP, MS, MLA or London Assembly Member for free
Global Privacy Assembly
The Assembly seeks to provide leadership at international level in data protection and privacy. It does this by connecting the efforts of more than 130 data protection and privacy authorities from acr...
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
The basic function of the Freedom of Information Act is to ensure informed citizens, vital to the functioning of a democratic society.
Mahatma Gandhi retires from politics to engage himself in development of village industries
Gandhi advocated for small, local and predominantly village-based technology to help India's villages become self-reliant
The Howard Dean for Iowa Game
Launched at Christmas 2003 to help Dean supporters understand grassroots outreach and to encourage them to participate in pre-caucus campaigning in Iowa or in their local area. Commissioned by Dean fo...
Congreso Virtual
Plataforma de participación ciudadana del Congreso Nacional de Chile
Wikipedia
Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (CGI.br)
O Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil tem a atribuição de estabelecer diretrizes estratégicas relacionadas ao uso e desenvolvimento da Internet no Brasil e diretrizes para a execução do registro de No...
UN E-Government Survey
Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for digital technologies (ICTs).
VoteMatch
VoteMatch was first developed in 1989 as a test on paper to assist voters in understanding the positions of political parties and the key issues of an election. Over time, it evolved into a digital to...
SCOTUSblog
covering the Supreme Court of the United States
Directory of Social Change
UK-focused charity capacity-building organization
The Community Networking Movement
They were locally controlled sites on the Internet that typically free services including training and hardware donations, as well as e-mail (years before Google and others got involved) web space, an...
KICTANet
KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder think tank in Kenya that serves as a catalyst for ICT sector reforms through policy advocacy, capacity building, research, and stakeholder engagement.
E-Participation Index (EPI)
A country’s EPI reflects the e-participation mechanisms that are deployed by the government as compared to all other countries.
NLnet Foundation
We support organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all.
Working for an MP (w4mp)
The Working for an MP website is a resource for anyone working for a British Member of Parliament or with an interest in how Parliament works.
Open Source Initiative
As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the open source software ecosystem.
Open Source Definition
A long-standing and heavily-cited definition of what it means for a tech project to be "open source"
Dods Political Intelligence Platform
Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."
Closing The Gap Conference
The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategie...
New York City Directories
Archive of New York City directories
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and soci...
Aspen Movie Map
An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado
X-Road
X-Road, the data exchange layer for information systems, is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems.
BetaNYC
We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people...
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 1 TRILLION archived web pages.
JamiiForums
JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006
mySociety
mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers.
Carl Malamud Launches Free Online Access to SEC EDGAR Records
Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial ent...
Chaos Computer Club
Europe's largest association of hackers.
Appropriate technology movement
a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound...
Civic Tech & Design Timeline
A crowdsourced US timeline of civic tech as a field
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
Paul-Brian McInerney circuit riders
This book explains the transition by tracing the brief and colorful history of the Circuit Riders, a group of activists who sought to lead nonprofits across the digital divide
Healthcare.gov
The Marketplace is a way to find health coverage that meets your needs and budget.
Breaking New Ground: Pioneering Electronic Land Registration in Ontario, 1987-2010
[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from pape...
US Census TIGER
From Saving the Census to Google Maps: The US Census Bureau's TIGER System, 1980-2010
Ushahidi
Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better
On The Issues
Tired of media reports of fundraising and poll results instead of policy issues? At OnTheIssues.org, you can see the view of every candidates on every issue.
Smartvote
smartvote BePart ist eine partizipative Plattform. Über diese Plattform können Bürger/-innen aktiv an der Gestaltung des smartvote-Fragebogens für ihre Wahl teilnehmen und ihre eigenen Ideen und Frage...
The US Office of Technology Assessment
OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology ass...
Aspiration Tech
Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization