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Technology & Data

Shared Platforms

Building reusable, open-source, or collectively-owned technology infrastructure for government.

8 organizations work on Shared Platforms, 7 people or opportunities on Connect carry it, and 4 tools in Proof Points touch its problem area.

Who works on it

CivicActions Digital Services & Consulting

Twenty years delivering digital services to federal and state agencies - open-source by default and outcomes-focused. Current portfolio includes healthcare.gov, medicare.gov, cms.gov, nsf.gov, and…

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CiviForm GovTech

Open-source benefits application platform built by the City of Seattle with Google.org Fellows and Exygy, now used by Seattle, Charlotte, Bloomington IN, Arkansas, and Miami-Dade. Residents apply for…

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Nonprofit govtech founded by former USDS staff. Its first product is a consent-based income verification tool that lets benefits applicants share payroll data directly with state agencies; states are…

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Nonpartisan organization working for better government and a stronger civil service. Advocates for reform through its Government for a New Era initiative and trains public servants at the federal,…

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Federal revolving fund (Modernizing Government Technology Act, 2017) administered by GSA that provides milestone-based, repayable financing for agency IT modernization; GAO counts $1.03B across 68…

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Truss Digital Services & Consulting

Federal digital services firm with strong portfolio including IRS Direct File, USWDS contributions, .gov registrar, and VA work. 8(a) SBA certified.

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VotingWorks Digital Services & Consulting

Nonpartisan nonprofit building open-source, publicly owned voting machines and election auditing software. Only nonprofit building certified voting systems in the US. Deployed in multiple states.

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18F (GSA) Government Sunset

Defunct (Mar 2025). Former GSA consultancy that provided agile development, procurement consulting, user research, and open-source tooling to federal agencies; alumni continue its open-source…

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People and opportunities on Connect

Niskanen Center · Capacity Builder

Collaboration Opportunity, Expertise, Interesting Conversation, Problem to Solve, Tool / Product

National Science Foundation · Government Practitioner

Grant / Challenge

· Technologist

Collaboration Opportunity, Expertise, Interesting Conversation, Tool / Product

Legislative Information Access in Prisons and Jails · Technologist

Collaboration Opportunity, Tool / Product

NYCuriosity · Technologist

Collaboration Opportunity, Expertise, Interesting Conversation, Tool / Product

· Capacity Builder

Collaboration Opportunity, Expertise

Code for America · Capacity Builder

Interesting Conversation, Collaboration Opportunity

Tools built on this problem area

An interactive dashboard connecting where New York floods to where the city spends its flood-resilience capital dollars, down to the community-district level, plus a time-animated playback of the May 20 flash flood across the subway and bus network.

Civic Tech Build Night

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabling live investigation of transit reliability. Already past 1,000 downloads since the event.

Civic Tech Build Night

A website that indexes NYC's civic data, giving residents and builders one place to find the datasets the city publishes.

Civic Tech Build Night

A map of the health of NYC businesses, surfacing where the local economy is thriving or under stress across the city.

Civic Tech Build Night

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