Civic Tech Field Guide
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Unsurprisingly, much of the civic tech community's interactions take place remotely and asynchronously, on Slacks and listservs and forums.
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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.
AI4Cities
EuropeSix European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.
Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents
Consul's Slack
AmsterdamAn online forum to discuss the CONSUL engagement platform
UK Democracy Meetup
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings
Code for Japan Slack Community
Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.
International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.
Open Government Partnership (OGP)
Washington, DCIn 2011, government leaders and civil society advocates came together to create a unique partnership—one that combines these powerful forces to promote accountable, responsive and inclusive governance.
MetroLab Network
444 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001MetroLab Network is a group of 35 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics, and innovation to city government.
We believe a world that respects our right to be isn’t some far-off destination. It’s something we’re building every day. This is your call to power, to build a world free of harassment. How do you want to get started?
MuckRock's FOIA Slack for journalists
United States of America 🇺🇸The MuckRock Slack channel is a free, collaborative discussion forum to discuss both the federal Freedom of Information Act as well as state public records laws.
Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.
Housing Data Coalition
50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.
The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.
An online forum for community discussion
JamiiForums
Tanzania, United Republic of (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) 🇹🇿JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006
Poverty Action Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.
Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.
Taftie
Gasthuisstraat 34, 4161 CC Heukelum, NetherlandsTAFTIE is the European Association of leading national innovation agencies
Online SOS
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment
Liberation Tech
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CAThe Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.
Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.
The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.
Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, 10179 Berlin, Germanywe are what we create together
City Science Network
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs
ELECTricity is a network of over 1,000 election officials sharing best practices
Harass Map
CairoBased on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.
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.
Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.
The California Public Technology Roundtable
CaliforniaThe California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
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
Public Service Lab
BerlinSupporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications
Open Gov Hub
Washington, DCOpen Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Domestic Workers Alliance, Broadway, New York, NYThe National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States, most of whom are women.
A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.
Democratic Innovation in Megacities
NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DCNDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.
Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that helps residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.
UnionBase
Washington, DCthe world's first social networking platform for the labor movement with 30,000 Union Profiles
A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.
Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...
Creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.
Govlaunch
San FranciscoThe wiki for local government innovation ✨
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Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network
MetroLab Network, 777 6th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices
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