Civic Tech Field Guide
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This category collects different learning resources about civic tech. You can find from blogs that explain how to enhance the relationship between people and governments to podcasts and films on how humanitarian organizations are responding to crises. The collection also includes books, newsletters, research, catalogs, reports, and information about courses, trainings, and workshops.
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Advocacy Assembly
LondonAdvocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.
Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
United States of America 🇺🇸In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes
The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy
United States of America 🇺🇸How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi
ONTRaC Learning Management System
Canada 🇨🇦This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network
CIPESA
KampalaICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.
SALTO Resource pool
EuropeA collection of 700+ resources targeted at EU youth
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
100 FAQs on Civic Tech, Citizen Participatory Technology, and everything in between
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧An extensive explainer of the civic tech field
This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.
New_ Public
Austin, TXNew_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.
Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.
La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.
By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill
This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.
A+ Alliance
GenevaA Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
ActionBound
Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, GermanyTake people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NCThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
AI Now Institute
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
AI Ethics Initiative
Cambridge, MAThe AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.
When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.
A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.
Public Interest Technology Workforce Survey Findings
The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DCThe Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers
Code for Japan's Civitan Civic Tech Explainer
Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵のびしろ、おもしろっ。シビックテック - シビックテックの3つのアプローチ
Future Cities Community Solutions Portal
Canada 🇨🇦Browse resources, connect with other leaders and see practical examples of smart cities approaches that can help your community thrive.
GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog
GovLab New York UniversityThe CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.
The Government We Need is a podcast exploring the government of the future and how it can best serve everyone.
Monocole 24: The Urbanist
Marylebone, London, UKWith an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.
Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.
Citizens' Initiative Review
OregonCitizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.
Interoperable Europe
European Commission Rue Philippe le Bon 3 1000 Brussels BelgiumShare and reuse Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkThe Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
It is to analyze what is wrong with democracy and spark conversations about how to fix it.
Participedia
VancouverAnyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.
Facilitating development of open government data and API specifications via a W3C Community Group (now closed).
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
133 Bethnal Green Road Londona crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak
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