Civic technology companies based in Seattle
- Socrata – socrata.com
- Tableau – tableausoftware.com
- WalkScore – walkscore.com
- ÜbrLocal – ubrlocal.com
- Front Seat – frontseat.org
- Community Sourced Capital – communitysourcedcapital.com
- CivicIQ – twitter.com/CivicIQ (funded by the Knight prototype fund)
Civic technology companies offering services in Seattle
- Nextdoor - nextdoor.com
Non-profit or volunteer organizations
- Code for Seattle – codeforseattle.org
City of Seattle programs, committees, etc.
- Citizens’ Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board - seattle.gov/cttab
- Technology Matching Fund from City of Seattle
Related Sites and Services
- Puget Sound Off - pugetsoundoff.org
- Community technology centers
- Neighborhood service centers
- Open data resources
- youthdigitalmedia.com
- Seattle on the Civic Commons wiki
- The Technology & Social Change Group at the UW Information School – tascha.uw.edu
Future Research?
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The Knight Foundation has a presentation on civic tech companies and it links to a list of 209 tech companies by category. It would be great to break this down and see who might be serving the Seattle area. I know Next Door and Socrata (already in the list above) are both listed but the spreadsheet doesn't have a column for city or service area.
- http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/12/9/knight-foundations-civic-tech-report-why-it-matters/
- http://www.knightfoundation.org/media/uploads/media_pdfs/Civic_Tech_Directory_1.xlsx
- Page to go through this data and sort out the local ones: http://seattlewiki.net/Users/Phillip/CivicTechDirectory
- List of social media uses in public life (think NextDoor) as put together by E-Democracy.org:
