Civic Tech
Directory

Personalized, nonpartisan information on every race and measure on your ballot, plus voter registration and polling place tools.

Builds the infrastructure that powers voter participation — election reminders, registration, and a nationwide Elections API.

Promotes the responsible use of technology in elections with databases on voting equipment, audit laws, and recount procedures.

Develops open-source, auditable election technology to improve trust and security in how votes are cast and counted.

The largest nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote technology platform in the United States.

Nonpartisan research on candidates and elected officials — voting records, positions, ratings, and funding.

The digital encyclopedia of American politics, offering nonpartisan coverage of elections, officials, and policy at every level.

A Democracy Works initiative delivering official ballot and polling-place data through open tools used by major platforms.

Pioneering youth voter registration technology and an open online voter registration tool used across the country.

The national driving force behind ranked choice voting and proportional representation reforms in U.S. elections.

The League of Women Voters' bilingual one-stop shop for registration status, polling places, and personalized ballot information.

Research and support for election officials expanding secure, accessible mail and at-home voting options nationwide.

Tracks the bills that shape your district — surfacing legislation from Congress and your state legislature with analytics and plain-language civics tools so you can follow and act on the laws that matter.

Tracks the status of federal legislation, roll-call votes, and the voting records of members of Congress.

The official source for federal legislative information — bills, laws, the Congressional Record, and member data.

Aggregates and standardizes legislative data — bills, votes, and legislators — across all 50 states, D.C., and Congress.

A real-time bill-tracking API and dataset covering every state legislature and Congress, powering apps and newsroom tools nationwide.

The daily journal of the U.S. government — proposed and final rules, executive orders, and public comment periods, fully searchable.

The federal government's official portal for reading proposed rules and submitting public comments directly into the rulemaking record.

Builds tools and research that help legislatures and constituents communicate more directly, from digital parliaments to engagement dashboards.

Public affairs software tracking bills and regulations across Congress, all 50 states, and hundreds of cities for advocacy teams.

A civic impact-data platform that syncs and connects people to the measurable outcomes of political and community action.

The nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and policy.

The National Institute on Money in Politics — a searchable database of state-level campaign contributions.

Investigative newsroom whose Represent and data tools expose how Congress and government agencies operate.

The official open-data source for federal spending, showing where taxpayer dollars go across agencies and programs.

Reveals the influence of money on politics with data connecting campaign contributions to legislative votes.

Congress's independent watchdog, auditing federal spending and publishing nonpartisan reports on how well agencies do their jobs.

Turns government data into plain-language, sourced-only-from-government visualizations of spending and outcomes at every level.

The Federal Election Commission's public database of campaign contributions, spending, and filings for every federal candidate.

The leading U.S. civic tech nonprofit, partnering with government to build human-centered digital services for benefits, tax filing, and record clearance.

Turns a text message into letters, faxes, and emails to your elected officials at every level of government.

Lets residents report non-emergency neighborhood issues to local government and track their resolution.

An open-source platform for reporting local problems like potholes and broken streetlights to the right authority.

Builds open-source civic tools used in 40+ countries for contacting representatives, FOI requests, and transparency.

Helps citizens understand legislation in plain language and take action by contacting their lawmakers directly.

A national coalition using policy and technology to automatically clear eligible criminal records at scale.

Turns any political issue into a script and your representatives' phone numbers, making it easy to call Congress in minutes.

A cross-partisan anti-corruption campaign passing local and state laws on ethics, gerrymandering, and money in politics.

A national network of local grassroots groups organizing constituents to hold elected officials accountable.

A crowdsourced, volunteer-researched database of town halls and constituent events held by members of Congress.

A free, open-source participatory democracy platform for proposals, debates, and budgeting — used by cities worldwide.

One of the largest open-source citizen participation platforms, supporting proposals, budgeting, and e-voting at scale.

An open-source platform using machine learning to gather and map what large groups think and find consensus.

Citizens Foundation's open-source platform for idea generation, debate, and prioritization in public decision-making.

Collaborative decision-making software that helps groups discuss issues and reach clear outcomes together.

A community engagement platform for surveys, idea crowdsourcing, participatory budgeting, and analytics dashboards.

An online engagement toolbox — forums, surveys, mapping, and Q&A — used by governments worldwide to consult residents.

Interactive budget simulators that let residents allocate real municipal and federal dollars and see the trade-offs of their choices.

An open-source French participatory democracy platform for consultations, participatory budgets, and citizen proposals.

Makers of Comhairle, a deliberation platform that helps governments, councils, and facilitators run hybrid online and offline conversations to listen to their communities at scale. Used by the Scottish Government and UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab.

An open-source deliberation platform (a modern take on Pol.is) that maps where participants agree and disagree to surface common ground for citizen assemblies, public consultations, and participatory policy-making. Used by UNESCO, the UN, and the EU.

A nonprofit research-to-infrastructure lab (spun out of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab) building tools, standards, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.

A roleplaying game engine for collaborative governance where players negotiate agreements by trading obligations and benefits, mapping emergent networks of cooperation. A Metagov project piloted with Stanford, Edge Esmeralda, and the KOI team.

An open-source engine that lets online community members author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry them out on their home platforms. A Metagov project.

A developer API providing polling places, election officials, and elected representative data by address.

The U.S. government's open-data portal with hundreds of thousands of datasets across every sector.

The largest open database of companies in the world, powering corporate transparency and accountability research.

Open, structured data on national politicians from every country — a shared resource for civic tech builders.

A global nonprofit promoting open data, open knowledge, and the tools that make information freely usable.

Open-source crowdsourcing and crisis-mapping platform used in 150+ countries for election monitoring and civic response.

The world's largest curated catalog of civic tech — over 15,000 projects using technology for the common good.

The open-source data management system that powers Data.gov and hundreds of government open-data portals worldwide.

Free programmatic access to America's demographic, economic, and housing data straight from the source that collects it.

The open-data platform technology behind thousands of government portals, letting agencies publish datasets the public can query.

Modern cloud software for cities, counties, and state agencies covering budgeting, permitting, and procurement.

A civic engagement and performance-analytics platform helping governments gather resident input and benchmark results.

Community engagement software that helps government agencies collect, manage, and report on public feedback.

One of the largest providers of integrated software and services to the U.S. public sector.

A community and collaborative space for civic technologists, organizations, and innovators to connect and build.

A citizen-experience platform combining government website, records, and communications tools used by thousands of agencies.

Software for local government covering municipal websites, 311 requests, permitting, and public records management.

An AI analytics platform helping city governments understand resident sentiment from surveys, social media, and 311 data.

Free, open-source web software that lets anyone draw legally compliant congressional and legislative district maps.

Upload any district map and get an instant, nonpartisan gerrymandering score based on leading academic fairness measures.

A free, widely used web app for drawing, analyzing, and sharing redistricting plans for every U.S. state.

A nonprofit newsroom and toolkit that helps anyone file, track, and publish Freedom of Information Act and public-records requests.

Public records request software used by hundreds of cities and counties to intake, track, and fulfill FOIA requests online.

Rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and pundits on its Truth-O-Meter, one of the nation's leading fact-checking operations.

A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center that monitors the factual accuracy of claims by major U.S. political figures.

Trains and pays everyday residents to attend and report on public government meetings, publishing notes the public can use.

A network of civic tech organizations spanning 30+ countries, connecting builders working on transparency and accountability.

Taiwan's open, government-and-civil-society consultation process using digital deliberation tools to build consensus on new legislation.

Supports democratic institutions and civic-tech tools in over 150 countries, from election monitoring to legislative modernization.

An intergovernmental organization publishing the Global State of Democracy indices and supporting electoral and constitutional reform.