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There has been an emergence of initiatives that take advantage of information and communication technologies to serve civic purposes, collectively referred to as civic technologies (Civic Tech). This phenomenon has been met with a rising interest in academia, where Civic Tech has become an interdisciplinary field spanning across various disciplines such as social science, political science, and computer science. In this talk, I first present a review of 224 papers from the ACM Digital Library with a focus on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Human-Computer Interaction, the key fields supporting the building of Civic Tech. Through this review, I aim to discuss the concepts, theories and general history of civic tech research. Next I introduce three cases of civic tech development in Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. Through the discussion about actors involved in the cases, I make suggestions about what participatory mechanisms may facilitate citizen’s engagement in civic tech design in Asian contexts. Following the presentation, there will be interactions with audiences in digital formats.
