The Civic Tech English Website Index

大家好！This is the civic tech English website index! Please add more websites to this list if you don’t see them listed. 

Civic Tech

  1. The Civicist http://civichall.org/civicist/ 
  2. The Sunlight Foundation Blog https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/ 
  3. MySociety Blog https://www.mysociety.org/blog/ 
  4. Code for America Medium Blog https://medium.com/code-for-america 
  5. Living Cities https://www.livingcities.org/topics/civic-technology 
  6. Democracy Club https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/ 
  7. Knight Foundation http://www.knightfoundation.org/
  8. Decision Theater - Arizona State University https://dt.asu.edu/tools
  9. Civic Solutions for Localities : Projects https://goo.gl/WNAEaM

Civic Tech Blogs

  1. Joshua Tauberer (govtrack, popvox) https://medium.com/@joshuatauberer 
  2. Laurence Grodeska (Accela – civic engagement software, civic makers medium) https://blog.civicmakers.com/@grodeska 
  3. David Eaves https://eaves.ca/ 
  4. Scott Rosenberg (*not really civic tech at all, but popular open-source thinker, wrote “Dreaming in Code, and Say Everything) https://shift.newco.co/@scottros 

Open Data/Open Government 

  1. Open Knowledge International Blog http://blog.okfn.org/ 
  2. The World Bank Open Data Blog http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/ 
  3. Open Data Watch http://opendatawatch.com/blog/ 
  4. Socrata (provides data vis and analysis tools for opening government data) https://socrata.com/blog/ 
  5. Open Government Partnership http://www.opengovpartnership.org
  6. World Alliance for Citizen Participation, CIVICUS http://www.civicus.org/index.php/en/
  1. The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/
  2. Participatory Budgeting Project https://www.participatorybudgeting.org
  3. Open Spending https://openspending.org/
  1. Open Constitute https://www.constituteproject.org/
  2. Regulation Room http://regulationroom.org/

Sustainable Business/Social Innovation

  1. Pioneer Post https://www.pioneerspost.com/ 
  2. Guardian - Sustainable Business https://www.theguardian.com/society/socialenterprises 
  3. White House - Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation Blog https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/sicp/blog 
  4. Next Billion (University of Michigan project) http://nextbillion.net/ 
  5. Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog https://ssir.org/articles 
  6. Omidyar Network https://medium.com/@OmidyarNetwork 
  7. OpenIDEO https://openideo.com/

Environment Focus/Social Good

  1. Triple Pundit http://www.triplepundit.com/ 
  2. Social Earth (very good for civic tech projects with development focus) http://socialearth.org/ 

Digital Activism

  1. Organizer Sandbox (medium - updated regularly) https://medium.com/organizer-sandbox 
  2. Adbusters http://www.adbusters.org/ 
  3. Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/ 
  4. ParticipateDB (the digital engagement catalogue) http://www.participatedb.com/about
  5. Liquid Democracy : Projects https://g0v.hackpad.com/-2.0--Y5f4w3JWs2Y

Hacking/Hacker News 

  1. The Intercept https://theintercept.com/ 
  2. Hacked https://hacked.com/ 
  3. Tech Dirt https://www.techdirt.com/ 
  4. The Guardian (hacking section) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/hacking 
  5. HackRead https://www.hackread.com/ 

Crowd Source Journalism examples

  1. Bellingcat (by and for citizen investigative journalists) https://www.bellingcat.com/ 
  2. Reddit – Data is Beautiful https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ 

Mainstream Sites with occasional civic tech or social business stories

  1. Mashable (social good) http://mashable.com/category/social-good/ 
  2. Fast Company (Exist) http://www.fastcoexist.com/ 
  3. The Verge (by Vox) http://www.theverge.com/ 
  4. Wired https://www.wired.com/ 
  5. Recode (by Vox) http://www.recode.net/ 
  6. Vice - Motherboard http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us 
  7. AV Club - Great Job Internet! http://www.avclub.com/features/great-job-internet/