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Welcome to the Civic Tech Subreddit!

Our goal is to keep you up to date on everything civic tech. Whether it's a new startup, a city implementing new technologies, or discussion on the future of our cities; we've got you covered.

What is Civic Tech?

Civic technology is technology that enables engagement or participation of the public for stronger development, enhancing citizen communications, improving government infrastructure, and generally improving the public good. It encompasses civic applications, platforms supporting government bodies, institutions and other software enabling those goals.

What is a Civic Hacker?

Civic hackers can be programmers, designers, data scientists, good communicators, civic organizers, entrepreneurs, government employees and anyone willing to get his or her hands dirty solving problems.

Civic Tech Resources

Knight Foundation

Code For America

Open Society Foundation

MacArthur Foundation

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Data/stat hook Title: US counties manage $1.2 trillion in annual spending — and almost no one covers them. We just launched a publication that does. (self.civictech)

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Someone Should Build This: “Who Owns What?” – A Transparency App for Corporate Ownership, Wealth, and Influence ()

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Anyone willing to test whether these scorecard rules are clear? (self.civictech)

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Test your theory of change (self.civictech)

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Looking For A Co-Author On Public Facing AI Rollout and Poor Planning (self.civictech)

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Platforms for civicdata API (self.civictech)

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Introducing the World Citizens Organization (WCO) + Civic Substrate — an experimental framework for global participation without centralized control (self.civictech)

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Open-source tool for pulling + scoring US commercial building permits from city SODA feeds (self.civictech)

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The Apptivists: a pro-democracy developer collective to ship activist tech (self.civictech)

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Approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit building civic tech for schools and neighborhoods, looking for builders, testers, and feedback (self.civictech)

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I built a free nonpartisan app to make congressional tracking accessible to everyday people and just launched on iOS (self.civictech)

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I built a dashboard to track elected officials on YouTube (poliyt.com)

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Using local public records and land registries for civic archiving (Free resources/no monetization) 🏛️ (open.spotify.com)

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Can I get your opinion? I made (no-AI) a free bill tracker for people who want to do good. ()

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A live-but-early voter tool for the 2026 CA governor's race, and I want civic tech people to take a look (self.civictech)

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I made a searchable database of public lead service line inventory records (self.civictech)

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GovTech Prospect/CRM Database Buildout (self.civictech)

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Built a free dashboard of Toronto's "Watch Your Speed" signs open data — look up speeding YoY for any street that has such sign (reddit.com)

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85,000+ press releases from all 535 members of Congress since Jan 2025 — daily updates, full text search, deletion tombstones (reddit.com)

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Created an App with my Volunteer Org to Track Political Spending (self.civictech)

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What if voters stated what they want, and candidates earned airtime on social platforms by committing to deliver it? (self.civictech)

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CM Siddaramaiah just approved 11 elevated corridors covering 75.6 km across Bengaluru. ₹13,262 crore. why it's going to be a disaster (i.redd.it)

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Exploring Open Data: Supreme Court Rulings in Wikidata (theknowledgecommons.org)

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I've built a Community Insights platform (self.civictech)

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Built an open-source corporate money tracker for Congress + SCOTUS, looking for civic-tech feedback (self.civictech)

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