Organizations
This page contains a a number of organizations involved with civic innovation and technology and a number of tools for organizing communities around civic innovation.
Non Governmental Organizations
- Asociación Ciudades Kyosei (ES)
- Association of Government Call Center Professionals (US)
- Center for Future Civic Media
- Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany
- CitySDK (Europe)
- CityProtocol.org
- Ciudadano Inteligente (Chile)
- Civic Access (Canada)
- CivicTEC
- Code for America and Code for America International
- Code for Europe (Europe)
- Conference of Mayors (US)
- DataKind
- Data Libre (Canada)
- Data Smart City Solutions
- Digital Local Agenda
- Digital Democracy
- E-Democracy.org (CityCamps et al)
- ESADE Open Cities - Open Innovation for Future Internet Services in Smart Cities - EU Open Cities Initiative
- EU CitiLab, Innovative City
- Expert Labs (“…an independent non-profit organization that helps policy makers in our government take advantage of the expertise of their fellow citizens.”)
- Gov2.0 Best Practices
- GovLab - The Governance Lab at NYU
- Global Cities Dialog
- Global Pulse
- International City/County Management Association & Alliance for Innovation - Transforming Local Government
- IT4ALL - Network of Local Authorities for the Information Society
- iStrategyLabs (co-creator of Apps for Democracy, Gov 2.0 Camp, TransparencyCamp, CityCampDC, Code for America Adviser)
- LGov.org
- Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base (Australian & New Zealand Local Government)
- MISA/ASIM (Canadian Municipal Information Systems Association)
- Metropolitan Information Exchange
- MySociety
- MuniGov 2.0 (Web 2.0 for federal/state/local/municipal/intl governments)
- National Association of Government Webmasters
- National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
- National League of Cities
- Open-Government.info
- OpenPlans
- OpenNorth (Canada)
- OpenCities.net - Open Innovation Mechanisms in Smart Cities (Europe)
- Participatory Politics Foundation (OpenCongress and OpenGovernment projects)
- Public Technology Institute
- Senseable City Lab
- Sunlight Foundation
- United Cities and Local Governments
- World e-Governments Organization of cities and local governments
Funders & Foundations
Foundations which include a focus on civic innovation and technology
Open Source
See Open Source for Government
Open Source for NGOs
Open Data
- Open Data Institute
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Sunlight Foundation
- Open Civic Data and Github Organization
- DataKind
- Data Libre (Canada)
- Data Smart City Solutions
- UN Global Pulse
Regional Government Alliances & Networks
- Open Knowledge Foundation Chapters
- Code for America Brigade
- Code for America Peer Network
- ICMA Knowledge Network and Alliance for Innovation
- [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/muni-innovation Municipal Innovation]
- National Association of Government Webmasters
- National League of Cities
- Conference of Mayors (US)
- Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base (Australian & New Zealand Local Government)
- United Cities and Local Governments
- eCityGov - 45 Cities in Washington State
- Colorado Government Association of Information Technology (CGAIT) - 50+ members in Colorado
- Data Community DC
- Open Gov West - Conference & network of meetups in US/Canada
See the Digital Communities article Capitalizing on Collaboration
Groups focused on Organizing
- Code for America Brigade
- Open Knowledge Foundation’s Local Chapters
- DataKind’s Local Chapters
- E-Democracy.org (CityCamps et al)
Tools for Organizing
Currently being constructed by Noel at CodeforAmerica (dot) org Reference: Organizations with training material
- New Organizing Institute
- Engineers without boarders (Canada)
- How to Get started (CfA Unconference Session - How to get started in a city)
- How to communicate with your community
- Welcome to a community (Template: Sample Concierge Responses)
- Monthly Email Template
- Recruitment of brigade members
- Websites and Meetups
- Social Media outlets?
- Community Ideation
- How to: outreach and building partnerships
- How to: Metrics and Tracking for Your Brigade
- Attendance
- Apps
- How to: Negotiating with Government
- How to: Host a Hacknight (Video)
- How to: Sponsorship, Expenses, and Budgeting
- How to: Keeping a community calendar
- How to: Marketing & Branding
- How to: Use the tools we recommend
- How to: A Hackathon
- How to: Host a hacknight (CfA Brigade Blog Post)
- How to: A Civic Apps Challenge
- What is Civic Hacking (Civic Hacking 101)