Civic life
Engage with the world.
Tools that help people understand their communities, find opportunities to contribute, build relationships, and participate meaningfully in local life.
- Participate
- Connect
- Contribute
- Organize
- Lead
Civica Systems, LLC · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Technology for a Free Society.
Civica Systems builds technology that helps people participate in their communities, develop themselves, and live more engaged civic lives.
What we build
Software for participation, growth, and community.
Civica Systems develops digital products designed to make meaningful participation, personal growth, and community engagement more accessible.
Our work spans two interconnected areas: tools for engaging with the world around us and tools for developing the person doing the engaging.
Civic life
A free society is something we practice.
Civic life happens every day—not just on election day. It happens in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, associations, community organizations, families, and everyday interactions between people.
Civica Systems builds tools that make it easier to participate, contribute, organize, learn, and grow.
Two dimensions
Two dimensions, one practice.
Civic life and personal development are usually treated as separate subjects. We think they belong together: a person who grows becomes more able to contribute, and a person who contributes keeps growing.
Personal development
Develop the person.
Tools that help people develop knowledge, habits, relationships, practical capabilities, and practices that make a better life possible.
- Improve
- Learn
- Build
- Practice
- Become
The civic life
A network of practices and relationships.
Civic life is not a single activity. Each practice strengthens the others, and you are at the center of all of them.
Select a practice to see how it connects.
- Learn Understand how your community works and what it needs. Connected to Participate and Lead.
- Participate Show up for meetings, projects, and the ordinary life of a place. Connected to Learn and Contribute.
- Contribute Give time, skill, and attention to the places you belong. Connected to Participate and Connect.
- Connect Know your neighbors and the people working on things you care about. Connected to Contribute and Organize.
- Organize Bring people together around a shared purpose. Connected to Connect and Lead.
- Lead Take responsibility for something larger than yourself. Connected to Organize and Learn.
Products
Tools for living well.
Civica Systems is developing apps in three areas of civic life and personal development. Each app will have its own name, announced when it launches. All are in development, and we will say so plainly until each one is ready.
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Community
Find ways to participate in the place you call home.
In Development
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Practice
Build better habits. Keep promises to yourself.
In Development
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Connect
Discover people, organizations, and opportunities worth knowing.
In Development
Principles
What we believe.
Human Agency
Technology should increase people's ability to understand, choose, and act.
Personal Responsibility
A better society begins with people willing to take responsibility for their own lives and communities.
Voluntary Association
People accomplish extraordinary things when they are free to form relationships, organizations, and communities around shared purposes.
Local Action
Many meaningful opportunities to improve society exist close to home.
Continuous Improvement
People and institutions can become better through learning, reflection, experimentation, and practice.
Pluralism
A free society makes room for disagreement while preserving the ability of people to live and work together.
Journal
The Civica Systems Journal.
Essays on civic life, community, technology, and personal development.
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Why Local Matters
The places closest to us are where most of life is actually lived.
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The Lost Art of Joining Things
Voluntary groups once taught people how to work together. They still can.
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A Free Society Requires Capable People
Self-government depends on people who can take responsibility for their own lives.
Build a life worth participating in.
Explore what Civica Systems is building.