Places Where Civic Technology Is at Work
Civic technology deployment spans the entire geographic spectrum, from small towns implementing their first open data portal to major metropolitan areas running dozens of open source applications across multiple departments. This section maps the places where civic technology has taken root, providing a geographic view of the movement’s reach and impact.
Each place entry documents the civic technology applications in use, the government entities involved, and the outcomes achieved. This geographic perspective is valuable for several reasons: agencies can find peer jurisdictions of similar size and characteristics to learn from, researchers can study patterns of adoption across different types of communities, and advocates can identify regions where civic technology has yet to gain traction.
The geographic spread of civic technology also demonstrates an important characteristic of the movement: it is not limited to large, wealthy, technologically advanced cities. While early adoption often concentrated in places like San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, civic technology tools have increasingly been adopted by smaller jurisdictions that benefit from the reduced cost and increased accessibility that open source approaches provide.