A worldwide movement to catalog �every open source civic tech project.
Our goal is to create a comprehensive, �searchable index of all civic tech open source software projects around the world.
Hasn’t this been done before?
There have been many attempts to make a searchable registry of these projects.
But until now, it has been impossible to create an authoritative source, because the usefulness of the registries depends on amount and freshness of project data, and marketing by the registry owner.
Data Entry
Freshness of Project Data
Marketing
End Users
Project Owners
Registry Owner
How is the CTI different?
Our wizard only takes 2 min to�use and makes use of GitHub’s built in Topic Tags to improve project visibility and connect open source civic tech projects together.
Who Will Use the Civic Tech Index?
Community Stakeholder (Government/NGO)
...such as a participant of a community who is part of the local government or a non-government organization who wants to find projects for the local city.
Project Lead
...such as a lead of project that wants to submit or update the project information to the Civic Tech Index
Project Volunteer
Prospective Volunteer
...such as a software developer, UI/UX designer or subject matter expert who is not part of an organization who wants to search the index for his/her personal use or wants to join an organization.
...such as a participant of an organization that may or may not be affiliated with a parent organization such as Code for All.
This person may be a self-organized individual/group or also it can be someone like a college student looking for a civic tech project to learn or join based on their personal interest like energy efficient cities.
Why we built a website
Provide a framework �that makes it easy for any civic creator to tag and submit their project to the Index in 2 mins or less.
Make it easy for anyone to search the index and find code for projects that are ready for iteration and customization.
To demonstrate the power �of the index and support and connect all civic tech organizations worldwide.
Homepage
Features prominent �users of the Civic Tech Index and links to all its contributors
Features trending topic tags, filtering out org names and other tags not related to topics.
Index Contributors
Unaffiliated Contributors are Civic Tech organizations such as Democracy Lab and Civic Software Foundation.
Affiliated Contributors are organizations such as Code for All, Code for Africa, and Code for Tanzania
You will be able dive into each contributors profiles, which often contains links to projects outside of their GitHub org, but through the #civictechindex tag, are easily findable.
Tag Generator
Now let’s look at how you can add your project to the Civic Tech Index.
Custom Tutorial
Generated by the wizard
You will notice that on the tutorial the choices that we made are represented in the tags to add:
Searching the Index
Features include search by:
Future features will include ability to find projects in other spoken languages.
About page
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Want to join the Civic Tech Index team?
Meeting Times:
Sundays: 2pm - 4pm PST
Thursdays: 6pm - 7pm PST
Recruiting:
Join us on Hack for LA’s Slack �channel at #civic-tech-index
Self invite at hackforla.org/slack