A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Research and policy centers
• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.

• Media
• Conferences

AbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.

• The People
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• In-person meetings

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

This year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology.

• Conferences
• Find a job or hire someone

Brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation & technology

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

It is time for a new league of heroes to take charge.

• The People
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• Conferences

The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing questions for the Internet.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Organised by PUBLIC and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the European Commission, the GovTech Summit gathers European leaders and innovators to explore how new technologies can improve public services and democratic practices.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

• Civic data
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

• The People
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• Conferences

Gathering leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy.

• Media
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Boston Civic Media is a faculty-led network that aims to advance the transdisciplinary domain of civic media research and pedagogy in the Greater Boston Area.

• Conferences
• Peer networks

MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.

• Fight disinformation
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.

• The People
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• Conferences

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

• Conferences
• Mapping

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

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

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.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

#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.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

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.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

• peace

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

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.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

• The People
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• Conferences

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

• The Tech
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

• The People
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• Conferences

En el mundo, todo evoluciona, incluso, en el área de la seguridad.

• The People
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• Conferences

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

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...

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Asia's First Ever Civic Technology Festival with a week-long Collection of Events.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

December 11-13 2020

• racial equity

• Conferences
• Data science for social good

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.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

• The People
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• Conferences

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.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

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

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

The 5th Edition of the Collective Intelligence Conference CI is the fifth annual interdisciplinary conference dedicated to advancing our understanding of collective intelligence and the workings of groups.

• Conferences
• Collective intelligence

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

• Civic data
• The People
• Meet the others

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.

• Meet the others
• Evaluate impact
• Conferences

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.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences