There has never been a more exciting time for tech enthusiasts than the last decade. Apple’s famous “There is an app for this” turned out to be a prophesy, when the young digital-native generation (yes, you!) demystified coding and web-design, and various ready-to-use design forms made web and mobile development affordable and non-exclusive. Hackathons, ideathons, development challenges, startup weekends, datathons, coding competitions spur thousands of new IT solutions every year, and a good part of them are designed to solve specific social problems, in other words, fall within so-called ‘civic tech’. But the hard truth is that maximum 1/3 of teams will continue working on their ideas after the event, and maximum 1/5 of these ideas will be launched. We have been working with civic tech projects in the Eastern Partnership countries for the past 6 years, and even though we do not have a never-failing winning formula (alas!), we will be happy to share our surmises and introduce you to some civic tech champions from the region.