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● projectActive · national · 2013
Codeando México / Cívica Digital
Civic technology civil society organization that develops open source digital tools for citizen participation and the use of open data.
illustrative atlas image · Brett Sayles / Pexels01 The context
It drives Retos Cívicos, municipal participation platforms (e.g. Monterrey), open data and civic hacking courses, and a curated list of civic technologies (awesome-civic-tech). In 2016 it spun off a social enterprise, Cívica Digital.
02 How it works
method · Open and collaborative development (open source)method · Civic hacking / civic challenges (challenge-based innovation)method · Open data training for citizens and public servantstool · Open source repositories on GitHubtool · awesome-civic-tech (curated catalog of civic technologies from Mexico)tool · SocorroBot (WhatsApp chatbot to guide disappearance reports)tool · Citizen open data platform
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
Evidenceawesome-civic-tech: lista curada de proyectos de tecnología cívica en MéxicoCodeando México (GitHub) · 2025
EvidenceTecnología cívica para la participación ciudadana. El caso de Codeando MéxicoEl Profesional de la Información, vol. 26 núm. 1, pp. 114-124 (Tena-Espinoza-de-los-Monteros; Merlo-Vega) · 2017