Projects - Meet the others

BetaNYC

Manhattan Borough President

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, by the people, for the digital era.

What Works Cities

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

UK Democracy Meetup

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

Code for Puerto Rico's Slack

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Slack instance for the Code for group

Code for Japan Summit

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

Code for Korea

Seoul

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

Civic tech communities and platforms

Code for Japan Slack Community

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

Civic Hackers Network

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

Code for Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

Japan's national civic hacking group

Citizen Engagement Festival

European Commission Rue Philippe le Bon 3 1000 Brussels Belgium

The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

Open Belgium

Aula Magna, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

Code for Durham

Durham, NC

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

Mozilla Festival

Barcelona

Mozilla Festival (MozFest) brings the world together to leave the internet better than we found it. Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, invites you to our annual interactive festival in London, England. Come shape our best future online.

2023 Webby Awards

Coops.tech

Creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.

Koduj dla Polski (Code for Poland)

Fundacja Epaństwo, Nowogrodzka, Warsaw, Poland

Community searching for technological solutions to societal challenges.

IEEE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (GHTC)

Seattle

IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

Code for Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

Code for BCS

College Station-Bryan, TX

Code for BCS is a Code for America Brigade (local chapter) focused on improving the lives of residents in Bryan/College Station.

Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS)

Visit the post for more.

Open Fresno

Fresno, California

A group of coders, designers, government reps, and citizens building a better #Fresno

Open data in NZ

Wellington, New Zealand

Open data meetup

Code for Boise

Boise, ID

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

Hackerspaces Discuss

Below is a listing of all the public mailing lists on lists.hackerspaces.org. Click on a list name to get more information about the list, or to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change the preferences on your subscription. To visit the general information page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a ‘/’ and the list name appended.

Code for Tucson

Tucson, AZ

Code for Tucson is the Tucson chapter of the Code for America Brigade. We are a group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network

MetroLab Network, 777 6th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001

A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices

Code for Kentuckiana

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville's Code for America Brigade

PDX Women in Tech

Portland, OR

PDX Women in Tech exists to encourage women to join tech and support and empower women so they stay in tech.

women

Knight.Slack

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL

An online forum for community discussion

PeaceTech Living Learning Community

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

Networking for democracy defenders

Berlin

Democracy Defenders for informal networking events for democracy defenders and citizens caring about their freedoms and rights.

Living Cities

1040 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10018

We take risks, catalyze fresh thinking and test new approaches in order to creatively disrupt the status quo.

g0v.network

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Basic 'About' page pointing to the network's mailing list and events and Slack

g0v

Rightscon

RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age.

human rights

Les Halles Civique

Parc de Belleville, Rue des Couronnes, Paris, France

Découvrez de nouvelles personnes, partagez vos centres d'intérêts, dans les lieux les plus conviviaux de votre ville !

Fundacja Moje Państwo

Fundacja ePaństwo, Warsaw, Poland

ePaństwo Foundation's aim is to develop democracy, open and transparent authorities and civic engagement.

NYC School of Data

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

NYC’s best public interest tech + open data event of the year — NYC School of Data!

CoMotion LA

Los Angeles

The Global Laboratory of Future Mobility

Gebruiker Central

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

De overheidsbrede kenniscommunity Gebruiker Centraal wil een servicegerichte en gebruiksvriendelijke (digitale) overheid. Via evenementen leren we van elkaars ervaringen en doen we ideeën op. Met instrumenten delen we die kennis.

BetaNYC hack nights

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

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

Code for Muskogee

Muskogee, OK

We're the Muskogee chapter of Code for America. Come hang with us!

Code for Nashville

Nashville, TN

Code for Nashville is Nashville's Code for America Brigade. We are volunteers who collaborate with Metro government to promote open data and build civic apps.

HVA IN DE STAD

Amsterdam

Deze tool brengt alle onderwijs- en onderzoeksprojecten van de HvA in kaart en is een startpunt voor onderlinge samenwerking. Kijk, ontdek, deel en doe mee met HvA in de Stad!

Data 4 Change

Nairobi

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

Open Development Mekong

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Sharing information about Mekong and its development with the world.

Civic tech community organizer toolkit

Canada 🇨🇦

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

Code for Tampa Bay

Tampa, Florida

Code for Tampa Bay is an official Code for America Brigade in Tampa, FL working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

Civic I/O

Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.

POINT

Sarajevo

POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference in SEE and seeks to be a platform for civil society that encourages the use of new technologies – tool for education about the use of new technologies and social networks; forum for exchange of views and experiences; incubator for the development of ideas, projects and strategies; virtual place for networking and informing socially conscious Internet users; as well as a social network for exploring and searching for partners and associates and building coalitions.