Projects - Conferences

Locate, by Mapbox

Mapbox's first event celebrating and exploring the connectedness of the world around us. #explorelocate

Democracy and Digital Media conference

42 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

SXSW Cities Summit

Austin, TX

The Cities, Government & Politics track focuses on innovative city planning and development, privacy and policy issues, and how politics plays a role in shaping policy in government.

Innovations in Participatory Democracy Conference

Phoenix, AZ, USA

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

CredCon

405 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

Build Peace

Build Peace is a conference that brings together practitioners, activists, artists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas.

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g0v Summit

Taiwan

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots. g0v’s biennial summits started in 2014, featuring open government, open source collaboration and civic participation.

Data for Policy

University College London

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

Theorizing the Web

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.

Colectiva

San Luis Apizaquito, Tlaxcala, Mexico

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

Sharing Cities Summit

Public Interest Technology Summit

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Public Interest Technology Summit is the evolution of the Alumni Digital Summit hosted last October in collaboration with Alumni Relations.

Nonprofit Tech Conference

621 SW Alder St, Portland, OR 97205, USA

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 Conference

City Science Summit

Join us in celebrating the launch of City Science Summit, where urban planners, industry leaders, and researchers come together to create a vibrant network o...

CivicTechFest Taiwan

Taipei City, Taiwan

North America Cartographic Information Society

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts. We have yearly meetings, an online discussion forum, and we work on a variety of projects and publications which promote good map making. We hope you’ll drop by and be a part of our collegial community.

Data for Black Lives conference

MIT Media Lab

December 11-13 2020

racial equity

DecidimFest

Barcelona, Spain

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

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Online News Association

The 2016 ONA Conference & Awards Banquet, Sept. 15-17

Civic I/O Mayors Summit

Austin Convention Center, East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, USA

Every year, mayors from around the country gather at the Civic I/O Mayors Summit at SXSW. The summit is a time to bring together city leaders, entrepreneurs, and provocative thinkers in order to learn from one another and engage in the premier destination for discovery.

Civic Hacker Summit

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

Civic Tech Innovation Forum in South Africa

41 Juta St, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa

Building relationships between government and citizens, and interested in how new technologies could enable better services, communication and accountability

Collective Intelligence Conference

The Impacts of Civic Tech Conference (TICTeC)

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.

Data 4 Good Conference UK

Birmingham, UK

The conference will connect leaders and practitioners to explore how non-profits are adapting and excelling in an increasingly data-driven world.

Citycamp NC

North Carolina

Berlin Urban Tech

Chausseestraße 13, Berlin, Germany

It deals with central issues such as location factors and potential of urban production, future-oriented ideas for logistics in urban areas and the opportunities of additive manufacturing in urban areas.

FooCamp

Democracy Xchange

Toronto

Canada's Democracy Summit

Tech & Check Conference

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

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Berlin

Future Cities Expo

London

Cityx is a two-day expo organised by Connected Places Catapult taking place at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 13th – 14th November 2019.

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New Urban Visions

Warsaw, Poland

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

Congress on New Urbanism

Congress For the New Urbanism, 1720 N Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

The premiere national event on building better places

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Media Party

Buenos Aires

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

Digital Disinformation Calendar of Events

Frontiers of Democracy

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

Open Data Institute Summit

The Heroes of Tech

Crystal Palace Ballrooms, Calea Rahovei, Bucharest, Romania

Code for All Global Summit

Citizen Engagement Festival

European Commission Rue Philippe le Bon 3 1000 Brussels Belgium

The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

Open Belgium

Aula Magna, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR)

Missouri School of Journalism, Walter Williams Road, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

NICAR, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, is a program of IRE, founded in 1989 and supported by the Missouri School of Journalism.

Mozilla Festival

Mozilla Festival (MozFest) brings the world together to leave the internet better than we found it. Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, invites you to our annual interactive festival in London, England. Come shape our best future online.