What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? Civic Digits blends digital technology, gaming and live performance to create innovative and interactive experiences, to question what it means to be a digital citizen in the 21st century.
About us
At the heart of everything we do, is our aim to create a digital future where we all can flourish.
In early 2025, there were still approximately 1.55 million adults, or around 2.2% of the adult UK population, described as internet non-users.
The company was founded in 2018 by award-winning playwright Clare Duffy, after a chance meeting with ethical hacker, Rupert Goodwins. Civic Digit’s first production is The Big Data Show, telling the story of the first prosecuted hack in the UK.
Our Vision
Through creativity people are empowered with knowledge, skill and agency to take control of their digital lives, to achieve equity, justice and to flourish.
Our Mission
To demystify technology and create change through live performance and new software tools that empower people to resist the harm technology too often puts in our way. Our impact on society is achieved through focusing on young people, their families, communities and the institutions that work with them.
We do this through an iterative production process encompassing:
Performance
- Building communities through playful action research workshops and performances with innovative technology
- Telling stories through new forms of ‘data driven’ theatre: live, online and hybrid
Research
- Critical thinking: Identifying the complex phenomena ‘data driven’ technology challenges society with, such as online hate, radicalisation, polarisation, privacy and security and exploring the lived emotional causes and impacts.
Development
- Product: Make, license and distribute new technology to facilitate digital theatre making
- Ecology: Developing the ‘data driven’ theatre sector through training, community building, commissioning and research
Our Values
- Creativity: inventive, participatory, fun and playful
- Curiosity: open, rigorous, investigative.
- Emotional intelligence: everyone deserves to be seen, everyone has value
- Inclusivity: intersectional, accessible, equitable, feminist
- Integrity: Responsibility, transparency and accountability
We aim to be a feminist, anti-racist and intersectional organisation and we want to encourage young girls to explore STEM subjects and careers.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of everything Civic Digits aims to do. Our company mission is to create a digital future where we can all flourish. We are passionate that no one gets left behind in the digital world we now live in, either through digital poverty and/or a lack of role models in the professional digital world and digital culture
We exist to challenge the reproduction of white centred patriarchal power through technology, by empowering young people to be confident to play with technology, to make their own technology and use it to express and represent themselves. We will make mistakes and we will be accountable.
We are a young company. As we develop and formalise our policies and equalities statements, we will upload them to this page. In the meantime, please contact us for more information or if you have any questions.