Civic Tech Field Guide
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In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.
by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.
Future of Privacy Forum Training Program
Washington, DCThe Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.
Israel Tech Policy Institute
Tel-AvivTech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
Predicting Well Groundwater Quality Using Cloud-Based Machine Learning: DataKind San Francisco Partners with Aquaya and DataKind
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)A writeup of the partnership
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
Princeton University, Princeton, New JerseyThe Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.
The Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.
Global Fact Check Fund
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FLThe Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.
Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime
Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DCUS White House order including addressing AI generated public comments
Hive Mind
435 Brannan St, San Francisco, CaliforniaBienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.
A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums
Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.
Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work
Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally
Do Open Data Impact on Citizens’ Behaviours?
Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.
Hâck The Hague
The HagueThe municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.
Github's Open journalism Collection
Redmond, WASee how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."
A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech
Курсы
MoscowТеплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений
A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type
Apolitical's Community Questions & Answers forum
The Conduit, 40 Conduit Street, London W1S 2YQ, England, UKAsk and answer the questions that matter to you as a public servant. Learn, share and connect.
Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online
Практика
MoscowТеплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач
Rightly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
Eye In The Sky
Portugal 🇵🇹Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
CivicDataLab
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
Agami
BangaloreAgami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India
Justice Hub
BangaloreAn open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
Name Reclaim
Canada 🇨🇦ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
An award for the best games for social impact of the year
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Walking Tour
Harvard University, Cambridge, MATomiko Brown-Nagin, chair of the Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, introduces you to the Initiative's work and this tour.
Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.
A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.
"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
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