Civic Tech Field Guide
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The ability to navigate technology and complicated digital contexts is an increasingly necessary skillset for citizens. Digitization of government, online advocacy campaigns, and other civic tech efforts will hit hard limits if the constituency or electorate isn't comfortable using technology.
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Portugal Digital
LisbonAcelerar Portugal através da capacitação digital das pessoas, da transformação digital das empresas e da digitalização do Estado.
JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.
Skills Wiki for New Government Hires
Aspen Institute, North 3rd Street, Aspen, CO, USAA comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.
VOTE: Women
Kampala, UgandaBuilding Data Skills among Women Politicians. We want more women voting, running and leading our countries.
Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy
Georgia (US state)Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.
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
Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them
Own Your Data Foundation
WyomingWe equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community
Congressional App Challenge
740 15th St. NW Washington D.C.We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.
City of Boston Digital Equity Assessment
1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA, United StatesThis study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities. This report also provides a high-level estimate of the cost of building a third competitive fiber network in the City, in addition to the residential services of Comcast and Verizon.
The Turing Way
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKCommunity-led guides for data science and open research
SocialTIC
South AmericaSocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital
No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.
TechImpact Technology Learning Center (formerly NPower)
United States of America (the)Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)
Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano NigeriaCITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.
Siberkreasi
JakartaSiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.
Facebook Digital Literacy Library
United States of America (the)The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Mozilla Web Literacy Framework
Mountain View, CA, USAIn today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Part of the Data Detox Kit
Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
Center on Rural Innovation
VermontAs strategists, advocates, connectors, and champions, we collaborate with members of our Rural Innovation Network to launch initiatives and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and tech job creation in the places they call home.
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
Apolitical Microcourses
LondonInteractive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.
All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.
How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USAA guide to the news company's data usage
A People’s Guide to AI
4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.
Ada Developers Academy
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaA non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
#whatthetech
Boston, MAA video series promoting public literacy of tech in public spaces
Data Collaboratives for Local Impact
Washington, DCLEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES
Abre Alcaldías
Latin AmericaTrainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America
JAAKLAC initiative
FinlandReseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World
The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).
Tanzania Data Lab dlab
University Of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre - SED, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaPromoting innovation and data literacy through a premier center of excellence
A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.
NNIP Catalog of data trainings
The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USAThis catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.
EveryoneOn
718 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USAFind low-cost internet and affordable computers in your area.
Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.
Data Murals
MIT Media LabAfter finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!
Sideways Dictionary
Washington, DCit's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions.
Tactical Tech
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyTactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.
MobLab enables global campaigners to build a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world by equipping them with strategies, tools, tactics, and partners.
A free course sponsored by the Finnish government to demystify AI
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