Showcasing re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organisations building them.
Featured open source projects
A tool that enables voters to find registration centers and verify their details through web or SMS in order to participate in the electoral process.
Learn MoreA ‘plug & play’ toolkit that journalists and civic activists can use to find and embed interactive data visualisations sourced from official sources and sorted by geographical region.
Learn MoreA tool that looks at how much Tanzanian households pay their domestic workers and uses this to determine whether the workers can in return sustain their own households.
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CivicPatterns.org is a collection of patterns and tools that help Civic Technology projects succeed.
Define what failure looks like at the start of a project.
Correlation doesn't equal causation, so make sure you have further research so you don't lead people astray.
Can you explain a process so that people really understand it well before you build the system to contain the process?
People, when asked what they want out of a project, will optimize their existing workflow instead of inventing a new one.
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