Adjacent Fields - (421)

Although not always explicitly civic tech, these categories are directly adjacent, like tech for other shared, public challenges, or foundational layers that must be present for civic tech to succeed in its goals.

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The Glass Room

The Glass Room

SoHo, Manhattan, New York, NY

a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.

Wukla

Wukla

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Wukla is an online platform where users can create agreements and legal documents, and have these delivered to their house.

Guardian Project

Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.

Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund

Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036

The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.

The Story of Stuff Project

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

Law Strive

Law Strive

Nigeria 🇳🇬

Law Strive is a website through which individuals and businesses can get instant legal advice, and hire lawyers.

Outline

Outline

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

The Internet Master Plan NYC

The Internet Master Plan NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

Tea Party

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.

LawyerLinx

LawyerLinx

Canada 🇨🇦

LawyerLinx is a legal marketplace where individuals and businesses can find lawyers on demand.

Rarenet

Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.

Mission Billion Challenge

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

Barefoot Law

Barefoot Law

Uganda 🇺🇬

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

Centre for Indigenous Innovation and Technology

A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.

Data & Society Research Institute

Data & Society Research Institute

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

Virtual Lawyer

Virtual Lawyer

Bangladesh (Bānglādesh / বাংলাদেশ) 🇧🇩

Virtual Lawyer is a web-based platform where individuals can find legal assistance from a pool of virtual lawyers, based on their requirements.

Small Media

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

Attorned

Attorned

Canada 🇨🇦

Attorned is a platform that links clients to lawyers through a bidding system. It increases access to justice by presenting a large pool of lawyers from multiple sectors.

Project Callisto

Project Callisto

United States of America 🇺🇸

Project Callisto helps survivors of sexual assault and harassment on college campuses document sexual assault, seek counseling, and start an investigation.

The Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST)

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

Center for Civic Education

The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.

The Layman's Lawyer

The Layman's Lawyer

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

On the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) (HOTOSM)

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) (HOTOSM)

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

We propose an effort to develop a “Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools”. This will be delivered by an informal group of like-minded organizations coming together around a common purpose.

New Story

New Story

San Francisco

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

San José Digital Inclusion Fund

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

CS4All

CS4All

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative offers a number of programs focused on helping schools to expand computer science (CS) exposure, offer access to robust CS experiences, and foster a sense of belonging in computer science for students.

MyData

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

Digital Integrity Fellowship

Digital Integrity Fellowship

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

Burocratas YouTube channel

Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

Data Cívica

Data Cívica

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

Direct Democracy Database

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

The Open Law Platform

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

Translators Without Borders

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

M-Haki

M-Haki

Kenya 🇰🇪

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

Uliza Wakili LLP

Uliza Wakili LLP aims to provide low-cost alternative dispute resolution and legal advice to SMEs and startups.

Generation Citizen

Generation Citizen believes all students have the right to civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy.

Data Justice Lab

Data Justice Lab

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data

OpenTrustwire

Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether they are overseas or just down the street.

Greenpeace Coca Cola

Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Open Internet for Democracy

Open Internet for Democracy

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

Amicable

Amicable

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

Laudelina

Laudelina

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

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