Civic Tech Field Guide
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UK Constituency Data Hex Maps
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧This site maps data about UK constituencies on hex maps (cartograms). We have created several themes (economy, energy, environment, health, society, and transport) and have filled those with separate pages for each data aspect.
Imali Yethu
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦Imali Yethu is a coalition of civil society organisations working with the South African National Treasury to make budget information more accessible, user-friendly and empowering.
What is Civic Tech? YouTube video
JohannesburgWe begin the series with a video that explains what civic tech is and it’s potential impact in African regions.
Find out about local government in your area
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.
MP Scorecard
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.
Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.
The Advocacy People
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.
Give Food
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧We're a UK charity that uses data to highlight local and structural food insecurity then provides tools to help alleviate it.
Action for Accountability
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦The Action for Accountability (A4A) project aims to support communities to organize and lead cooperation between our communities and local leaders.
TreeKIT
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.
Future-Proofing Congress
United States of America 🇺🇸How Member-Led Upgrades Are Optimizing Legislative Branch Capacity and Resilience
Selfie Control
WyomingAn Instagram filter that reminds you not to get too close to wild animals as you take your photo
BudLib
Calgary, AB, CanadaBudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.
Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)
United States of America 🇺🇸GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
United States of America 🇺🇸Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections
United States of America 🇺🇸Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.
We’re building tools for participatory funding connecting resources directly to community-controlled funds on Common, our digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordinate and grow economic democracy to global scale.
Signal Conso
France 🇫🇷Report an issue to a company, find out about your rights with France's Fraud Control.
maze impact
LisbonWe are an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.
Base dos Dados
Rio de JaneiroSomos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.
The temporal and spatial intersection of information and telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies, and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial configurations and public policies. Specifically, the post-crisis emergence of innovative workplaces to accommodate these changes, is creating socioeconomic and spatial features that are only recently beginning to be explored in the scholarly literature. According to this scenario, this edited book offers a variety of avenues for exploring the relationships between contemporary production activities and new workplaces in several urban contexts. In particular, it focuses on the consequences of these relationships in terms of regeneration of the urban fabric, as well as on their implication in terms of urban policies. This book represents early observation of the fast-growing phenomenon of new productive activities and workplaces against the background of the gig economy and sharing economy paradigms. Central to this discussion is the investigation of the connection between digital technologies, new works and workplaces, and urban change processes and projects, by providing an additional contribution to new urban agendas for contemporary cities. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Urban Technology.
MyPolis
8 Tv. de São Pedro LisboaCreating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Mozambique.
Curated definitions of key terms relevant to collective intelligence, democracy and governance.
Exploradores da Cidadania
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!
deliberAIde
BerlinWe are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.
Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.
Data and Society: A Critical Introduction investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource.
Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in solving social problems at the community, state, and national levels.
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective
Institutional inertia, nevertheless, causes large delays in updating and adapting
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016: “Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world
Highlighting a wide range of topics including community inclusion, cultural innovation, and public safety, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, entrepreneurs, engineers, government officials, policymakers, academicians, ...
Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents.
In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways.
The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens.
In Democracy 2.0, we feature a series of evocative, international case studies that document the impact of alternative and community use of media, in general, and Web 2.0 in particular.
This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world.
This book offers conceptual frameworks, theoretical insights, and practical lessons for dealing with the problem
MosaicLab
Melbourne VIC, Australiawe’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement
MASS LBP
TorontoWe have led more than 50 Reference Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies contributing approximately 71,000 volunteer hours to policy-making in Canada — making MASS internationally recognized for its work in public deliberation.
Digital Democracy: Political Participation and Citizen Engagement Through the Internet
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧This Library Note provides an overview of developments around citizens’ political engagement and participation through the internet.
They’re our neighbors, in-laws, and coworkers. Their story, along with the story of the social good that can result from citizen science, has largely been untold, until now.
Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social scientists and computer scientists.
Democracy Fitness
EuropeWith Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!
We are an international network of organizations, associations, and individuals that develop, implement, and promote ways to improve democracy, from the local to the global level.
Mair examines how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems
newDemocracy Foundation
New South Wales, AustralianewDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organisation. We aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making.
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