Civic Tech Field Guide
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Digital or analog games and activities designed to promote civic engagement and awareness through play. Many of the digital games are one-off projects, and aren’t maintained over long periods of time (for example, when browsers remove support for Adobe Flash). Gamification seeks to bring elements and mechanics of gameplay to more arduous tasks, like registering to vote.
Suggested reading:
- Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History – A history of board games and the powerful ideologies embedded within them, by Alex Andriesse, Public Domain Review (2019)
- How Minecraft Is Teaching Kids to Face the Threat of Climate Change – A case study of efforts to teach young children in Australia about climate action through the incredibly popular game.
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Open Knowledge Foundation Japan
Harks Roppongi Bldg. 2nd floor, 6-15-21 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Transparency International Netherlands
Secretariat, Transparency International Netherlands, Benoordenhoutseweg 23, 2596 BA The Hague, Netherlands
Transparence France
Transparency International France, 14, passage Dubail - 75010 ParisTransparency International France
Open Data UAE
Building Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the intersection of Al Falah Street with Al Salam Street, Abu Dhabi
The Open Gov Source Consortium
OpenGOVSource, 2650 West Montrose Avenue, Suite 205, Chicago, IL 60618
Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).
Make big decisions better. Ethelo is an online group decision-making platform that enables communities to solve complex problems.
Place Speak
New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADA
The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) is a non-profit, non-partisan research center that researches and acts on evidence to solve the most important challenges in Mexico.
The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 and aims to improve social well-being by funding research and innovation in education, justice and welfare.
Instituto de Fomento à Tecnologia do Terceiro Setor
Rua Vicente de Oliveira, 40, 05359-210, São Paulo
An independent, not-for-profit media organisation that holds power to account.
A clever campaign riffing on Spotify's Unwrapped year-in-review product, by Fight for the Future and Union of Musicians and Allied Workers. https://github.com/fightforthefuture/spotifyunwrapped.org
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