Civic Tech Field Guide
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Podcasts covering the civic technology field that especially seek to raise awareness of the work being done by governments, organizations, and movements.
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ALDA's podcast - "To promote positive change and democracy, through dialogue and interaction"
Smart Cities Council Podcast
Washington, DCJoin us as the Smart Cities Council team and members from around the world talk to the people and places advancing the application of science, data, technology, and engineering aiming to create a safer, more beautiful, enabled, and resilient future for everyone.
WTF Podcast - What is the Future for Cities?
Washington, DCWhat is The Future for Cities? podcast is a platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research about the future of cities.
Whistleblowing Now and Then is hosted by Anna Myers, Executive Director of the Whistleblowing International Network.
Computer Says Maybe
United States of America 🇺🇸A podcast about the politics of technology
Demokrasia Bis (the Mobile Citizens Lab)
Timor-Leste (Timór Loro Sa’e) 🇹🇱The Mobile Citizens Lab will travel to various communities across the country, providing young people, who are often excluded from national dialogues, the tools and information they need to engage in democratic processes.
Democracy Innovators Podcast
EuropePeople behind innovative tools and ideas for the next generation of democracy.
Cyborgfeminista
Padre Cardozo 719 c/ Teniente Ruiz, Las Mercedes, AsunciónUna espacio virtual en el que buscamos ocupar y recuperar una internet democrática explorando el cruce entre género y tecnologías.
Cabo Eleitoral
São PauloO podcast traça um panorama sobre os impactos e as mudanças que a internet trouxe para as campanhas eleitorais.
Caixa-Preta
São PauloCaixa-Preta é um podcast que trata de assuntos ligados ao impacto da tecnologia na sociedade.
Dadocracia
São PauloUm podcast voltado para as mais diversas discussões entre tecnologia e sociedade. Listen on Spotify
Machines Like Us
Canada 🇨🇦Machines Like Us is a technology show about people.
Good Standing podcast
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Good Standing is dedicated to exploring how individuals and organizations are driving real-world impact.
The Great Battlefield Podcast
United States of America 🇺🇸A podcast about the political entrepreneurs and other progressive leaders who are finding new and improved ways to fight.
Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MAThe Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice.
NGI0: Next Generation Internet podcast
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱Conversations with the people building the Next Generation Internet (NGI). They’re working on free and open source technologies to make the internet more resilient, secure, trustworthy, accessible and human-centered.
Google Daily Listen
Mountain View, CA"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge
OpenCouncil
Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷Demystify local government and enable citizen participation
mySociety's podcast
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Tune in to learn the latest on our work in Democracy, Transparency, Community and Climate.
The Sunday Show is the weekly (and sometimes more often) podcast from Tech Policy Press.
Chit-Chat Japan
Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.
Civic Tech in Africa podcast
JohannesburgCivic Tech in Africa with Nathi Mcetywa is a podcast by the Civic Tech Innovation Network. The podcast focuses on the profiling of civic tech initiatives, civic innovators, activists, researchers, social entrepreneurs and others working in the civic tech and other related fields in Africa.
Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy.
A podcast bringing you one degree closer to nonprofits making an impact in the world.
The Great Battlefield
United States of America 🇺🇸How the Resistance is Mobilizing
Future of Journalism
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKPodcast from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
JAAKLAC iniciativa podcast
Finland (Suomi) 🇫🇮JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.
Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.
Trait d'Union Podcast
France 🇫🇷Vous ne comprenez rien à l’Europe ou à l’Union européenne ?
Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.
Digitally Yours Podcast
Tunisia (Tunis) 🇹🇳Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.
Democracy Decoded
Washington, DCPodcast of the Campaign Legal Center
In Case You Missed It
100 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630Join us weekly for government technology news, trends and interviews. Tune in live each Friday at 12:00 PM PT.
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.
Our “Bedrock, USA” podcast explored the rise of far-right extremism in two local governments.
The Local Authority Podcast
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The Local Authority is the podcast from LGC and TPXimpact. Each month we will bring together leading figures from within and around local government to discuss one aspect of the sector’s future.
All Tech Is Human Library Podcast Series
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)The All Tech Is Human Library Podcast is a special 16-part series featuring a series of rapid-fire intimate conversations with academics, AI ethicists, activists, entrepreneurs, public interest technologists, and integrity workers, who help us answer: How do we build a responsible tech future?
Conversations with Volunteers
Southern and East AfricaOpen Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast
No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.
Media Matters for Pakistan
Pakistan 🇵🇰Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
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