civicfeatures

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A Fundraising & Social Media Blog for Nonprofits

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Meet the others

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Code for Sonoma County is a Code for America brigade or local chapter focused on improving the lives of residents of Sonoma County.

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

Making Public Information, Public Knowledge

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• Civic hacking meetups

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

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• Civic hacking meetups

ELECTricity is a network of over 1,000 election officials sharing best practices

• The People
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• Voting and elections

The new Barcelona Metròpolis wants to be a tool for promoting and stimulating citizen debate on the big questions affecting our future.

• The People
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• News and blogs

Asia's First Ever Civic Technology Festival with a week-long Collection of Events.

• The People
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• In-person meetings

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

This collaboration between Feeding America and Nielsen in 2014 collected and mapped data about food insecurity across America to aid research and advocacy efforts.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

INTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

• books
• city

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The civic tech meetup for people working on civic technology, empowering citizens, and government transformation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

• racial equity

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.

• apps
• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• United Nations

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election

• 2024 elections

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Building on over 5 years of work supporting PB processes across North America, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has created this toolkit to help organizers and advocates start new PB processes.

• toolkits

• The People
• Build something
• Participatory budgeting

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

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.

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• Research and policy centers

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

EGAP 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.

• guides

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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.

• The People
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• Peer-reviewed research

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

EWB Canada is a vibrant community of professionals and students working to eliminate poverty by fostering innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Canada and around the world.

• No poverty
• Partnerships for the Goals

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

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• In-person meetings

Brazil's parliamentary innovation unit

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

To bring together civic-minded software developers to use technology to innovate in public services, by creating open source solutions to address the needs of citizens

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Every year, mayors from around the country gather at the Civic I/O Mayors Summit at SXSW. The summit is a time to bring together city leaders, entrepreneurs, and provocative thinkers in order to learn from one another and engage in the premier destination for discovery.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We are a Tech & Innovation Hub located in Tunis and operating all over the world. Our aim is to create, and co-found ventures in E-Health, Gaming, Blockchain & Digital Transformation.

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• Build something

An inter-galaxial space station that enhances open culture

• Hong Kong protests

• The People
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• In-person meetings

Li Ka Shing Foundation supports projects that promote social progress through expanding access to quality education and medical services and research, encouraging cultural diversity and community involvement.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Open innovation space

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• In-person meetings

The San Diego Foundation is a community resource that improves San Diegans’ quality of life by creating equity and ensuring opportunities in the region.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

The Rockefeller Foundation's mission, unchanged since 1913, is to improve the well-being of humanity around the world.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Challenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions