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Information on bills, legislative processes, regulatory requirements, acts, and reports related to civic tech's goals of driving meaningful participation, civic engagement, and oversight.

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 Caught in the Web (CitW)

Caught in the Web (CitW)

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Caught in the Web (CitW) is a 26 month initiative supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office United Kingdom where Search for Common Ground, Hashtag Generation, and Centre for Equality and Justice work as a consortium to advance effective responses to gendered online hate speech and cyber sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lanka.

Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act

Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.

LupaMundi

LupaMundi

Brazil (Brasil)

O LupaMundi - Mapa das Legislações sobre Desinformação é um mapa interativo que apresenta as leis nacionais de combate à desinformação.

Fundusz sołecki

Fundusz sołecki

Poland (Polska)

Polish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities

The Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy

A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.

21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

El Avispero

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

Onlinezugangsgesetz (OZG)

Onlinezugangsgesetz (OZG)

Germany (Deutschland)

Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.

A guide to anti-misinformation legal actions around the world

Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation

EU Code of Practice on Disinformation

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

NYC law: Reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies.

NYC law: Reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies.

New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies

The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act

The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) requires all government-produced digital products, including websites and applications, to be consistent, modern, and mobile-friendly.

The Digital Bill

The Government clearly highlighted the modifications made to the text following this consultation, in order to facilitate the follow-up of proposals from different contributors.

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