Civic Tech Field Guide

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Civic Tech Field GuideApr 22

We've got something fun for you today, too. Come play our birthday game! Enter the year you were born and see which democracy tech project you're the same age as: https://app.civictech.guide/decade-club#birth

(and yes, sadly this game favors younger people 😆)

Decade-Plus Club

A rich, crowdsourced collection of thousands of democracy tech projects from around the world.

Civic Tech Field Guide
Civic Tech Field GuideApr 22

We're celebrating our 10th birthday today! 🥳

Thanks to everyone who's contributed to the Field Guide over the years. 🧁

Want to buy us a cupcake to celebrate? https://www.every.org/civic-tech-field-guide/f/celebrate-10-years-of

Civic Tech Field GuideApr 12
Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public (https://www.theverge.com/policy/906122/pinterest-employee-fired-obstructionist-speaks-out)
Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public

Engineer Teddy Martin was fired from Pinterest after sharing a tool that shed light on layoffs. Now he’s going public and considering legal options.

The Verge
Civic Tech Field GuideApr 12
Voice Media: Sweden’s Digital ID System Hacked, Public’s Data Sold on Dark Web - Independent News Roundup (https://www.voicemedia.global/article/sweden-s-digital-id-system-hacked-public-s-data-sold-on-dark-web)
Sweden’s Digital ID System Hacked, Public’s Data Sold on Dark Web

Frank Bergman Sweden’s sweeping national digital ID system has been hacked, with the public’s sensitive data already being sold on the dark web...

Civic Tech Field GuideApr 11
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages (https://www.theverge.com/news/908401/propublica-union-strike-negotiations-ai-layoffs)
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

For the first time in the nonprofit’s history, the ProPublica union of 150 workers is walking off the job in a 24-hour strike.

The Verge
Civic Tech Field GuideApr 11
The Infrastructure of Trust: How Local Civic Hubs Are Rebuilding Democracy Across Rural America (https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/stories/the-infrastructure-of-trust-how-local-civic-hubs-are-rebuilding-democracy-across-rural-america/)
The Infrastructure of Trust: How Local Civic Hubs Are Rebuilding Democracy Across Rural America

Trust for Civic Life builds resilience by solving national problems in local communities.

Ford Foundation
Civic Tech Field GuideApr 11
Sacred Cows: What Did We Stop Questioning in Digital Government Delivery, but Should Now? (https://fas.org/publication/sacred-cows-digital-government/)
What Did We Stop Questioning in Digital Government Delivery?

Let’s see what rules we can rewrite and beliefs we can reset: a few digital service sacred cows are long overdue to be put out to pasture.

Federation of American Scientists
Civic Tech Field GuideApr 9
Update: The Tech Platforms have official logos associated with them now! If a project is by or explicitly about a mainstream tech platform, we tag it here.
https://app.civictech.guide/platforms
All Platforms

A rich, crowdsourced collection of thousands of democracy tech projects from around the world.

Civic Tech Field Guide
Civic Tech Field GuideApr 8
Update: We've moved the Happening Today block, featuring today's events and opportunity deadlines, higher up on the app homepage:
https://app.civictech.guide/#today
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Civic Tech Field GuideApr 8
Update: Thumbnails of project images should contain the entire image (rather than crop them) across the entire site now. 
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Explore the Civic Tech Field Guide

A rich, crowdsourced collection of thousands of democracy tech projects from around the world.

Civic Tech Field Guide