Join us at one of our upcoming project nights!
We meet up twice a month to work on cool projects, learn new things, and eat pizza together. Everyone's welcome, whether you're a seasoned dev, policy nerd, designer, product person, or just curious about civic tech.
Current projects
We’re always incubating new projects and iterating on existing ones! Here are the projects we’re currently supporting:
Active Projects
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VoteCatcher
Building open source campaign infrastructure that any grassroots organizer can use - starting with signature validation processes.
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CIB Mango Tree
An integrated library of open source programs to test datasets of social media activity for signs of coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB).
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Congressional Tech
Building tech tools for congressional staff and increasing transparency for constituents.
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Data and Democracy Project
We build data tools for election protection: cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing public election datasets so that journalists, advocates, and election administrators can act on the findings.
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DC Reentry Housing Project
A Civic Tech DC project building a citywide reentry housing data platform with the DC Reentry Housing Alliance: mapping available units, eligibility, and shared outcomes across the coalition.
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Ride Score DC
Rating every street segment in DC for cyclist safety - visualizing risk on an interactive map to inform riders and advocates.
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SpicyRegs
A platform that turns federal regulations and public comments into accessible, actionable insights.
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WaterVoice DMV
A real-time water quality map that tells DC Metro residents whether local waterways are safe to swim, kayak, fish, or wade.
Past Projects
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ANC Finder
ANC Finder was a project to help residents of Washington, DC understand and engage with their Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs).
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Clean Slate
The Clean Slate Expungement Project was a digital tool that helped individuals determine their eligibility for expunging or sealing past marijuana-related criminal records following legalization in DC.
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Electrify DMV
Lower carbon emissions in the DMV by connecting homeowners with the resources and contractors they need to make their homes efficient and electric.
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Daria
An open source CRM software for abortion funds, created by abortion funders and friends of abortion funders. DARIA went into service in July 2016 for the DC Abortion Fund and is now used by multiple abortion funds across the U.S.
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DC Crash Bot
DC Crash Bot (now known as Data-Driven Streets) combined DC police crash reports with DC Fire & EMS dispatch data to identify unrecorded “ghost crashes,” producing a more complete, data-driven picture of street safety in Washington, DC.
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Housing Insights
The Housing Insights tool provides data about subsidized affordable housing projects and the neighborhoods that they're in.
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Open Data DC
OpenDataDC was a public data portal for and by the people of Washington, DC. It complements the catalog maintained by the city government at data.dc.gov which houses official municipal data.
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Open Election Map
A map to display the results of Washington DC's 2014 General Election in collaboration with NPR affiliate, WAMU.
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Our DC Schools
Our DC Schools is a online resource that helps the public personalize and visualize changes in school district boundaries within the District of Columbia.
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StreetView
Automate mapping of urban vegetation from street level imagery to create a layer for exploring which areas of a city might be at greater risk during future heat waves.
Have an idea worth building?
Every Civic Tech DC project started as a pitch from someone in the community. If you've got a problem worth solving or something you want to build, bring it to the team, privately, first.
