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● projectActive · national · 2013
Codeando México
Civic technology (civic hacking) community and organization founded in 2013 out of a hackathon team, on the premise that technologists can create technology to solve public problems.
illustrative atlas image · Nerea Marti Sesarino / UnsplashCMCodeando MéxicoCDCívica DigitalMSMiguel SalazarCDCatalina Demidchuk
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01 The context
It drove the #app115 challenge (2013), organized the technology response to the 2017 earthquakes, and maintains open source projects such as DataMX, Retos Cívicos and the Socorro chatbot. In 2016 it spun off its development arm into the company Cívica Digital. Still active: GitHub with recent activity (ecozonas-app-mapeo Dec 2025, codeandomexico.github.io April 2026).
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
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Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
ContextA 10 años de Codeando MéxicoCodeando México · 2023
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