Code for America (CfA) — the nation’s leading nonpartisan and nonprofit civic tech organization — has created and shared a new safety net scorecard, which it built with government partners in ...

Sheba Najmi remembers the process of things like paying the electric bill or going to the post office in her native Pakistan, and it was tedious and difficult. Her father would send her to stand in ...

Tim Wisniewski, the city’s 311 app project manager, is now Philadelphia’s first Director of Civic Technology, the city’s Managing Director’s Office announced on its blog yesterday. The move was first ...

President Donald Trump’s creation of his promised Department of Government Efficiency within one of the federal government’s most notable civic tech organizations, the U.S. Digital Service, has sent ...

Defined in the 2010s, civic technology describes efforts to use digital tools and design processes to improve the effectiveness of government, nonprofit and community efforts. Elon Musk’s DOGE is ...

In 2016, Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson and Matt Stempeck (then director of civic technology on Microsoft’s Technology and Civic Engagement Team) collaborated to organize a taxonomy of civic tech. Their ...

In many places, people want to be part of deciding the actions that influence their regular lives, whether that's voting for how to use a public budget or participating in local elections. But for ...

A civic media and digital democracy organisation FactCheckAfrica, has launched a suite of Artificial Intelligence-powered civic technology tools aimed at strengthening public accountability, improving ...

P33, the civic effort to boost Chicago’s tech sector, has named its board of directors. The 21 members come from startups and Fortune 500 companies, as well as academic institutions and nonprofits, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. President Donald Trump’s creation of his promised Department of Government Efficiency within one of the federal government’s most ...