UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects

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To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

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Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

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Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

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This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

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Pew Research Center makes most of its datasets available for download once reporting has been completed for a given study. Here's how to find and access our data.

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TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURS

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Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.

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“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

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To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

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China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.

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The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

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studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

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This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…

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Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

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A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

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Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

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Strong Towns is a non-profit organization working to support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become financially strong and resilient.

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Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.

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Inter-American Development Bank's repository for open-source software

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CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

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A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

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The Data Coalition advocates on behalf of the private sector and the public interest for the publication of government information as standardized, machine-readable data.

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Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.

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Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

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PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

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Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.

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Infomocracy by Malka Older | Tor.com Publishing

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Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

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Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

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The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.

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The OpenGov Foundation is a fiercely apolitical nonprofit dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures.

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A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

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The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

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The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.

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Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

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The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.

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Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science

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Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments

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Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.

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Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.

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To field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed

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Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

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The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

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Browse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.

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A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

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The Civic Tech Innovation Network newsletter and online magazine is produced by the journalism and media lab, university of the witwatersrand, johannesburg

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Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

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