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Virtual and face-to-face training spaces that explore different concepts, practices, methodologies, and tools of the civic tech field.
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How to Think/Act in Dark Times: Exploring a Critical Praxis
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USATaught By: Eduardo Staszowski
Storytelling with Data Course
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USATaught by Maria Massei-Rosato
Public & Collab Services Course
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAA core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin
Doing Democracy Differently
New York, USAThis 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.
Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Cooperative AI Course
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
Transversal Design for Social Impact
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.
This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.
Civic Tech Innovation Short Course, Wits School of Governance
Johannesburg, South AfricaThis course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.
Service Design at Newspeak House
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKA curriculum for the Service Design 101 course with readings and case studies
Cyberharassment Clinic at New York Law School
New York, USAThe Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.
This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.
Equitech Scholars
Chicago, ILAn 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact
Equitech Futures' Civic Tech Institute
Chicago, ILThe Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.
Justice Media co-Lab
Boston, MAThe Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.
Advocacy Assembly
LondonAdvocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.
Media Matters for Democracy Courses
PakistanTwo courses - Understanding Citizen Journalism and Digital Disinformation and Journalistic Responsibilities
The School of Good Services
LondonThe skills you need to deliver services that work
ITS Rio Curricula on Information Issues
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilCourse at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.
GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives
AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)
MIT Media LabFor entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.
Tech, Media & Democracy course
New York CityThrough a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy
Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.
A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.
Academia de Innovación Política
Paris, FranceLa Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.
The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
Seminar of digital democracy
Leuven, BelgiumThis seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.
People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs
Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.
Google Sheet of Educational programs for technology and social justice/social good/public interest/civics/etc.
Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.
How can today’s public servants use technology and design to deliver high-quality public services and engagement opportunities?
Senseable Cities
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science
Citizen interaction design
Michigan, USAin which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.
iCivics
1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USAiCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
Technology and Social Change 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.
Civic Engagement interdisciplinary program at UChicago
Edward H. Levi Hall, 5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USAUniversity of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.
MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.
Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (ViDA)
New York University, New York, NY, USAThe Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.
Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.
Design for America
Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center 2133 Sheridan Rd. G.302 Evanston, IL 60208Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.
Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...
Civic Leadership Academy at U Chicago
Chicago, ILThe Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.
PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.
Justice Innovation Startup Lab
University of Southern California LALearn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.
The Civic Data Design Lab
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.
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