The alumni Twitter account for a 2-year graduate program in Tisch, NYU to explore the creative uses of communication technologies

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Decisions made easy.

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• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

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• Civic data
• Build something

The directory and review site Yelp shares global crowdsourced user data on restaurants across cities (such as Phoenix, Madison, and Edinburgh) in its Dataset Challenge for participating researchers to build tools and provide research on urban trends and behavior.

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• Get funding
• Competitions

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

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• Advocacy tech

Copcast is an open-source project that can turn any Android phone into a body-worn camera system for law enforcement, providing a more cost-effective and accessible solution for law enforcement officers around the world.

• apps

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• Govtech
• Open justice

The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.

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• Civic data

BUILD HIGH-IMPACT PRODUCTS FOR LOW-INCOME AMERICANS

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

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• Defining the field

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential

OParl. Mehr Transparenz für Ihre Kommune.

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• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

GuideStar connects donors and grantmakers to non-profit organizations.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Helping make the internet safer and more accessible

• research
• human rights
• trainings

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• Digital security and privacy
• Solidarity networks

The smart governance platform for cities and towns. Wir ermöglichen Entscheidungsträgern in Städten und Gemeinden, datengetrieben zu steuern.

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

If you’re working on a startup or non-profit that addresses news, the future of work, or improving democracy, we’d love to see you apply.

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• Accelerators

We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

A free course sponsored by the Finnish government to demystify AI

• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.

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• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Another open source self-assessment tool, by the Ontario government

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Hardware
• COVID
• Digital fabrication

How can today’s public servants use technology and design to deliver high-quality public services and engagement opportunities?

• Courses

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

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• Research and policy centers

MindMixer acts as a virtual town-hall allowing community planning to happen online.

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The 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.

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• Meet the others
• Research and policy centers

Forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time.

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• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

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• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

• apps
• labor

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• Adjacent Fields

• Bureaucracy tech

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

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• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

This is an open document for developing a media analysis toolkit.

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• Media
• Media and social media analysis

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

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• Media
• Solutions journalism

Latvian "civic-initiatives platform ManaBalss.lv (MyVoice), developed and run by an NGO Foundation of Public Participation, MyVoice."

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• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

• cyberwar
• reports

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• Emerging Tech Report Tools

The initiative was developed in partnership between the National Council of Justice (CNJ) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with support from the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Superior Court of Justice (STJ), Superior Electoral Court (TSE), and Superior Council of Labor Justice (CSJT).

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• Drones

Theorizing the Web is an inter- & non-disciplinary DIY conference on tech & society. #TtW18 is April 27 & 28 at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Assess Where To Participate

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• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

• free speech

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• Digital security and privacy

Debate platform powered by reason

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• Civic forums

Mostly fundraising and roles that support fundraising in large organizations, education, foundations.

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.

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• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Activists from 15 countries taking on kleptocracy, political violence, technology, and environmental crisis.

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• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

• books

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• Emerging tech

A text message that the government sends to citizens to in an attempt to prevent corruption.

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• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

civicfeatures

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• News and blogs

Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.

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• Civic data
• Legal tech

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

MIT Solve is now going to start backing small, for-profit ventures taking on global issues, from access to clean water to the need for a circular economy.-

• Get funding
• Competitions

Rejoignez votre réseau de voisinage pour collaborer, partager, recycler, covoiturer, acheter groupé, animer sa vie de quartier et réaliser des économies avec vos voisins !

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• Online forums

Book chapter by Jeffrey Liebman and Hanna Azemati

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Confronting opposite opinions to fight filter bubbles

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• Media
• Filter bubble poppers