awesome-civic-tech

A curated list of awesome civic tech projects and deployed instances.

Open Source Apps

• Madison is a government policy co-creation platform that opens up laws and legislation to individuals and the Internet community.

  Source: https://github.com/opengovfoundation/madison
  Instances: https://drafts.dc.gov/

• Councilmatic allows users to search, browse, subscribe, and comment on city council bills, council members, and events.

  Source: https://github.com/codeforamerica/councilmatic
  Instances: http://nyc.councilmatic.org/, http://chicagocouncilmatic.org/, http://philly.councilmatic.org/

• Chicago Works For You is a citywide dashboard with ward-by-ward views of service delivery in Chicago.

  Source: https://github.com/smartchicago/chicagoworksforyou
  Instances: http://chicagoworksforyou.com/

• Open Budget: Oakland is a project visualizing Oakland's budget data and explaining the budget process.

  Source: https://github.com/openoakland/openbudgetoakland
  Instances: http://openbudgetoakland.org/

• Open Data Policing NC aggregates, visualizes, and publishes traffic stop data for North Carolina.

  Source: https://github.com/OpenDataPolicingNC/Traffic-Stops
  Instances: https://opendatapolicingnc.com/

• The State Decoded is a platform to display legislative data (state codes, court decisions, legislative metadata) to make laws understandable by regular people.

  Source: https://github.com/statedecoded/statedecoded
  Instances: 6 instances listed at http://www.statedecoded.com/places/

Closed Source Apps

• Govtrack helps everyone learn about and track the activities of the United States Congress.

Standards

• Open311 is a national standard for requesting city services.

  Instances: 20+ instances listed at http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2/Servers/

• Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) is a restaurant inspection information specification, developed in partnership by Yelp and the cities of San Francisco and New York City.

  Instances: 10+ instances listed at http://www.yelp.com/healthscores/feeds

• Open Permit API Specification presents permit information in a standardized format.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! This list accepts only deployed (i.e., completed) civic tech projects. Please follow existing formatting rules and include a link to the project homepage, the project's source code, and any instances of the project.

License

To the extent possible under law, Andrew Sullivan has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.