Civic Tech Field Guide
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Update: We've broken our Build Something collection into two subcategories to make it more manageable: Build your own (resources to get you started) and Learn from others (inspiration from others building civic tech).
Build something on the Civic Tech Field Guide
Learn how to develop collaborative projects, prototypes, or datasets. Get access to software, administrative tools, and data. Explore services and tools to improve interaction between governments and...
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Update: A change to URL encoding broke the permalinks to our community calendar event pages. We've fixed them now.
Community Calendar 📅
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Update: We have created meta tags across our taxonomy, so now when you share a Field Guide link on social media, it will have a more detailed title and description.
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RapidDeploy Realtime data. Unified Public Safety workflow. Reduced emergency response times. https://www.rapiddeploy.com/ #DisasterResponseAndHumanitarianTech #EmergencyServices #CivicTech
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Update: We've just hit 7 thousand subscribers and are over the moon that there are so many of you out there, keen to follow all the developments in the Civic Tech field and join an expanding community of people interested in tech for good. Thank you.
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Update: We've radically simplified our project share form. Now you can [drop a link](app.civictech.guide/add) and be done. You can still find our full project add form [here](app.civictech.guide/add-details).
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Please join me in welcoming Daniel Mackisack, the new Manager of the Civic Tech Field Guide!
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Please welcome Daniel Mackisack, the new Manager of the Civic Tech Field Guide! civictech.guide/the-civic-te...
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Please join me in welcoming Daniel Mackisack, the new Manager of the Civic Tech Field Guide!
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Update: We've radically streamlined our submission form. Now you can share anything - projects, links, events, jobs, etc. by dropping a link here: app.civictech.guide/link-drop
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Update: We've built our own geotagger. This means new locations added to the Field Guide will get added to the maps on a weekly basis. We also coded geocoordinates for 65 places that were missing them.
World Map of Civic Tech
A global map of the places where civic tech happens
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Update: Issue pages now have recommend resource blocks like category pages do.
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Update: We made a fun little social bot, @everycivicapp. It will post one active civic tool per day from the collection on Bluesky, Threads, and Instagram (when we have an image).
Every Civic App (@everycivicapp.bsky.social)
ClearForms Fast, affordable, online permitting for governments https://citygrows.com/ #Permitting #BureaucracyTech #CivicTech
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Hundreds of prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike (Links)
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Reboot: The Reports Nobody Reads: How San Francisco Used AI to Declutter Its Municipal Code (Links)
Update: We fixed an issue on Category pages where the galleries weren't showing Graveyard entries. That was making the project counts look inaccurate - they're back now.
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Update: Category pages now have a pre-sorted block showing different project types in that category. For example, tools vs. organizations vs. publications are already sorted for you. Just scroll down to see the unsorted full gallery.
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