---
title: Civic Hive
type: ngo
status: active
country: NG
website: https://civichive.org
logo: /assets/org-logos/civic-hive.png
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-09
  email: info@civichive.org
  form: https://civichive.org/contact
  source: https://civichive.org/contact
summary: A Lagos-based civic-tech fellowship and innovation hub — training civic-tech
  practitioners, launching platforms for election transparency and civic participation,
  and running the West Africa CivicTech Conference.
concepts:
- democracy-tools
- e-government
- radical-transparency
location:
  latitude: 6.5244
  longitude: 3.3792
  name: Lagos, Nigeria
  precision: city
events:
- date: '2017-01-01'
  title: Founded in Lagos as a civic-tech fellowship and innovation hub for West Africa
  url: https://civichive.org/about-us/
  quote: Founded in 2017 as the innovation centre of BudgIT
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-10'
  notable: true
activity:
  rss:
    date: 2026-08-10
    note: 'Latest post: Navigating Technology and Inclusion in Nigeria’s Electoral
      Future'
    url: https://civichive.org/navigating-technology-and-inclusion-in-nigerias-electoral-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=navigating-technology-and-inclusion-in-nigerias-electoral-future
    checked: 2026-08-17
  url: https://civichive.org/2026-osun-state-governorship-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2026-osun-state-governorship-election
last_checked: '2026-08-09'
---

Civic Hive is a Lagos-based civic-tech innovation hub that runs a fellowship programme training civic-tech practitioners — 36 fellows have launched 26 organisations through the programme — alongside building platforms for electoral transparency and citizen participation. Its portfolio includes the Nigeria Election Portal, a Live Results Map, and the West Africa CivicTech Conference, a convening space for the region's civic-tech community.

The organisation sits at the intersection of training, movement-building, and tool-building: it does not just develop civic-tech tools but deliberately grows the community of people who can build, adapt, and sustain them. This pipeline function — from fellowship to organisation to ecosystem — makes it infrastructural in a different way from an organisation that only ships software. Blog posts as of August 2026 confirm active operations.

Civic Hive is one of several organisations in the Democracy Landscape operating in Nigeria — alongside CDD West Africa and BudgIT — and represents the civic-tech training-and-incubation model within that ecosystem, complementing the research (CDD) and transparency-tool (BudgIT) organisations already present.

## Links

- Website: [civichive.org](https://civichive.org)

## See also

- [Democracy Tools](../concepts/democracy-tools.md)
- [E-Government](../concepts/e-government.md)
- [Radical Transparency](../concepts/radical-transparency.md)