Adjacent Fields - (435)

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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Liftware

Liftware

269 E Grand Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

My Legal Briefcase

My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

Tele Law

Tele Law

India (Bhārat)

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

Anatomy of an AI System

An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor

Data Zetu Intiaitive

Data Zetu Intiaitive

United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

DATAJUSTICE project

DATAJUSTICE project

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

Gender and Technology Institutes

Gender and Technology Institutes

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

Social Media Exchange (SMEX)

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

Immi

Immi

New York, NY

Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.

EveryAction

EveryAction

1445 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA

EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

Netfreedom Pioneers

We are a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach.

Digital Defenders Partnership

We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

CIVICUS

CIVICUS

College Park, Maryland

A living-learning community at the University of Maryland based on instilling civic engagement

Colnodo

Colnodo

Colnodo, Diagonal 40a, Bogota, Colombia

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

Refugees United

Refugees United

Kampala Accountancy Bureau, Plot 3 Wampewo Avenue, Kampala, Uganda

REUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.

Online Mediation Center

Online Mediation Center

National Law School of India University, Gnana Bharathi Main Road, Opp NAAC, Teachers Colony, Naagarabhaavi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Online Mediation Center is a pilot project at the National Law School in Bangalore, and provides online tools to address consumer grievances.

Presolv360

Presolv360

India (Bhārat)

Presolv360 is an online dispute prevention service that aims to prevent legal disputes and litigation. The Presolv forAll service is available as a free service for underprivileged members of the society.

Gavel.ng

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

LegalApp

LegalApp

Colombia

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

TechSoup

TechSoup

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USA

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

Find a legal aid adviser

Find a legal aid adviser

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Find A Legal Aid Adviser is an online tool through which users can find a legal aid adviser or a family mediator.

Data Harm Record

Data Harm Record

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

The Internet of Ownership

The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy.

Copernicus

Copernicus

Avenue d'Auderghem 45, Brussels, Belgium

The European Union Earth Observation Programme

Legal Legends

Legal Legends

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Legal Legends allows small businesses to purchase legal services at fixed prices on its platform.

eclips.is

eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.

The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

Youth in Front guide to student protests

This is an online course designed around promoting and discussing student-led voice in civic engagement.

Sahana Eden ASP

Sahana Eden ASP

Sweden (Sverige)

Sahana EDEN ASP is an open source humanitarian aid management application with a specific focus on refugee case management.

Calyx Institute

Calyx Institute

Brooklyn, NY

Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.

Wagbot

Wagbot

New Zealand

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

Canadian Open Data Society

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

CivLab

CivLab

Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, USA

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

Guide to organizational security

Guide to organizational security

The Engine Room, Albany Street, London, UK

We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security practices.

Pokket

Pokket

75 5th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308

Pokket℠ connects justice agencies and human service providers with returning citizens to break the cycle.

LawGives

LawGives

Canada

LawGives is an online legal service platform. Users can input their legal problem and the site generates free quotes and consultations from registered attorneys.

Protect Our Care

A campaign leveraging personal stories about Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act to defend it from legislative attacks

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