Civic Tech Field Guide
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Demonstrating impact in the civic tech field can be hard. In this section of the guide, you will find tools that can be used by governments, organizations and communities to track performance, collect data and manage impact. In addition to resources for building monitoring and evaluating systems, you can explore databases to analyze public policy or researches on how entities and nonprofits that use tech and data are generating positive effects.
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It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.
Oxford Insights
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)We make technology work for the public good
Mission Metrics
Oakland, CaliforniaWhen founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.
Impact Tracker
OhioThe IA Impact Tracker is a digital platform to help news organizations, funders, and other stakeholders understand the impact of journalism by defining, measuring, and tracking real world change.
Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change
United States of America (the)Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.
Cheeri IMM
Hong KongBy making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.
The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.
Suomi.fi Quality Tools
FinlandFinnish government tools to make it easy for government offices to assess and improve upon their digital service delivery
How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?
Iguala
Madrid (Spain)IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.
A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered
IDinsight
AfricaIDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.
The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.
A series of articles interrogating the concept of rigor in the context of impact evaluation in our work, by Keira Lowther
Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."
Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.
The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.
The data analytics platform for impact-driven organizations.
The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
Digital Maturity Indicator
Melbourne VIC, AustraliaThe Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.
AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.
A platform to help social good outfits import, visualize, and analyze impact data
Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.
A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.
"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."
The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.
Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Research into whether legislation achieved its policy goals
A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.
Evaluating Digital Citizen Engagement: A Practical Guide
Brazil (Brasil)A World Bank working paper (2016)
A project to create an index of democratic quality
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.
Citizengage
1110 Vermont Ave NW Washington D.C. 20005Discover how citizens and governments are coming together around the world and how you can join them.
The Public Impact Observatory
10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva SwitzerlandThe Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work
Candid
32 Old Slip, 24th Floor New York, NY 10005Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."
Ranking Digital Rights
740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy
Impact Management Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact
Impact.jor
Brazil (Brasil)O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.
DoBigGood
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaWhen the path to social impact is unclear…we help you measure it
Internet Universality Indicators (ROAM-X)
UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, FranceA map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance
The Impacts of Civic Tech Conference (TICTeC)
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceTICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.
A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel
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