Civic technology

Draft

Introduction

“Civic technology - technology (mainly information technology) that’s spurring civic engagement to participate in public good development, enhancing citizen communications, improving government infrastructure, or generally making national and local governments more effective.[1][2] It encompasses civic applications, platforms supporting government bodies and institutions and other software enabling those goals.” (Wikipedia, Aug 19, 2014)

Civic technology as well as citizen science are part of what could be called Citizen+X.

Software

• Some Citizen science software, in particular crowd sourcing application, could be used for various purposes. E.g. see the Excites projects
• Google Civic Information API

Links

• Pulling back the curtain on civic tech, Dec. 4, 2013, 9:04 a.m., Posted by Jonathan Sotsky, The Knight Blog.
• The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field. Knight Foundation, 2013.
• Huffington Post's Civic tech entries
• Promoting civic innovation through technology (Google's plans)