Civic Tech America’s First Searchable State Legislative Session The Council Data Project was deployed to make Montana's state legislative session more transparent and accessible. Even with the advancements in technology that have allowed ordinary people to stay up
Hackathon Global Collaboration at Hacky New Year At Hacky New Year 2023 we explored new partnerships and models of collaboration to convene what we believe was the world’s first public, hybrid, multi-location, tech-for-good hackathon.
Civic Tech A Better Tech-a-thon: ground-breaking collaboration on Public Interest Technology Students and faculty from leading universities collaborated with tech professionals to contribute to 17 tech-for-good projects at A Better Tech-a-thon.
Civic Engagement Building a Database to End School Violence Gun violence in schools is a public health issue that plagues our country. The Athena project is using social science and big data to create an app to power violence prevention programs in our schools.
Civic Engagement Volunteers make the 2021 Summer Create-a-thon a Success At this year's Create-a-thon ten projects came together with over 60 volunteers to make progress building tech-for-good. Both volunteers and project leaders enjoyed the event, found it rewarding, and made progress towards the goals they set.
DemocracyLab Optimizing Municipal Infrastructure with Smart City Planning Smart City Planning is creating a transparent, open source platform that puts the power to make data-driven decisions back into the hands of the community.
Virtual Hackathon 2nd Virtual St. Hack-trick’s Day Accelerates Civic Innovation Now a full year into virtual hackathons, we can see that the pandemic accelerated us in the direction we wanted to go, but weren’t quite brave enough to leap toward - events with no geographic bounds.
Civic Tech Undebates: Making Democracy More Accessible Undebates is a way for voters to quickly get to know candidates and for candidates to gain exposure to voters – for free! It can be deployed for elections all across the country.
Tech For Good iSeaTree Nurtures Community Scientists iSeaTree used skilled volunteers from DemocracyLab to build an app that engages a community of data-informed youth in protecting trees.
Tech For Good Every Voice Engaged: Transforming Lives, Communities, Government with Games, Software, and Collaboration Every Voice Engaged helps governments to meet citizens’ needs and help citizens engage with their Government.
Record Sponge Record Sponge Cleans Records, Changes Lives Record Sponge provides Oregon citizens with arrest records fast and free eligibility analysis that can lead to record expungements.
Tech For Good Grow your Tech for Good Project Teams with the "Groups" Feature on DemocracyLab! The “Groups” feature lists the specific projects associated with a Tech for Good organization on a branded landing page that is easy to update and maintain. DemocracyLab makes it easy for volunteers to dig deep into a project before reaching out to project leaders to start a conversation.
National Day of Civic Hacking 2020 National Day of Civic Hacking – NW Project Workday The National Day of Civic Hacking brought together civic leaders, public servants, designers, coders and engaged citizens to partner with local governments and community groups to tackle some of our toughest challenges.
Tech For Good Textio Engages Employees to Accelerate Civic Innovation Textio’s experiment with an internal tech-for-good Explorathon is paying off for the projects they selected and in employee enthusiasm.
Civic Tech Benefits of Skilled Volunteering Nonprofits today are stretched thin due to lack of resources and funding. Their challenges are growing and they’re constantly in need of expertise that may not be available within their own organizations.
Civic Tech The Untapped Potential of Civic Technology “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” -Albert Einstein
