“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

We aspire to build a new kind of political training and development, that leverages network effects, enables more self-directed learning, and is radically more practical. Alumnis will innovate the political sphere, and gain influence by doing so.

• Govtech
• Supporting specific public sector efforts from outside government

Initiators of successful political projects in a specific area of politics provide their know-how, experience and dos-and-don’ts in a highly motivating dialogue

• Conferences
• Peer networks

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

DemocracyNext is an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute.

• Participatory democracy

A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Digital transformation

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• E-voting

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours