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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Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back
Data for Climate Action called upon researchers to harness dataprovided by the multinational banking company BBVA, the global telecommunications provider Orange, Waze, and others for climate-related activities.
Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.
Civic Tech Innovation Database (South Africa)
JohannesburgThe Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.
Genomic Data Commons
United States of America 🇺🇸Providing a web‑based platform and related tools for researchers to authenticate, upload, validate, harmonize, and release cancer genomic and associated clinical data into the NCI Genomic Data Commons
A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.
Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.
Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...
NNIP Catalog of data trainings
The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DCThis catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.
Open Cities Lab
153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South AfricaOpen Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.
Digital Civil Society Lab
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CAHelping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.
Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.
The Only Nationally Representative Survey of American Mayors
A modern take on the traditional think tank, Global Americans provides up-to-date research and analysis on key areas and issues affecting Latin America
Missing Numbers
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't
The Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CABuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Open Hardware Observatory
BrusselsThe Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.
City Science Network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
Barcelona Metropolis Dossiers
BarcelonaThe new Barcelona Metròpolis wants to be a tool for promoting and stimulating citizen debate on the big questions affecting our future.
Next City is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.
Feeding America and Map the Meal Gap
United States of America 🇺🇸This collaboration between Feeding America and Nielsen in 2014 collected and mapped data about food insecurity across America to aid research and advocacy efforts.
International School for Transparency
Vilnius, LithuaniaINTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International
Data for Black Lives
United States of America 🇺🇸Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.
Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.
Election Tech Handbook
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election
CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
113 Moses Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.
Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.
Global Network Initiative
718 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
Local STEM Database
Hayward, CAA crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi
NightSeeing™ aims to transform cities at night into welcoming, inspiring, inclusive places.
This book is meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy.
A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.
Décider ensemble
128 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, FranceDécider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
The Cleaners
Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, GermanyIt tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.
The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.
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MIT GOV/LAB
30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA 02142The MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
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