The annual Democracy R&D conference is the leading international event for people who fund, run, commission, study and advocate for Citizens’ Assemblies.

• The People
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• In-person meetings

• The People
• Participatory democracy
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TrustCon is the global conference dedicated to trust and safety professionals who are responsible for the challenging work of keeping our platforms and communities safe.

• The People
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• Digital security and privacy

Tech and meta-organizations that support the mission of non-profits and charities. Includes mainstream productivity software (like LibreOffice) as well as non-profit-specific tech (like donation management software).

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Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 7-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
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Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

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The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• In-person meetings

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

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• Academia

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Govtech
• Civic data
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Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

• Media
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• Journalism

Interaktywna przestrzeń do wynajęcia, w której dzięki technologii, sztuka łączy się z mediami

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• Hubs

Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data

• guides

• Civic data
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a hackathon (now in its second edition) in which teams work collaboratively from different Latin American countries to find creative solutions to problems posed by civil society in the first phase of the event. More than 20 areas of knowledge dialogued collaboratively to solve challenges in Science and Education during #CoAfina.

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• In-person meetings
• Civic hackathons

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

• free speech

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A la fois laboratoire d’innovation publique, équipe d’experts pluridisciplinaires, centre de ressource et de formation, réseau dédié à l’innovation - le Lieu de la Transformation Publique propose, depuis 2019, un accompagnement sur mesure aux porteurs de projets engagés dans une démarche de transformation.

• Govtech
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Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• In-person meetings

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

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• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

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• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.

• Meet the others
• Data science for social good
• In-person meetings

The Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.

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• Hubs

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• Adjacent Fields
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• Digital security and privacy

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.

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• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

We believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.

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• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

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• Civic hacking meetups

Co-working Space, Events, Education, Programming, Incubators, Accelerators and a community of Entrepreneurs focusing on Innovation.

• Decade-Plus Club

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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.

• Decade-Plus Club

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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.

• Decade-Plus Club

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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

• Decade-Plus Club

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

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

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

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

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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
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La Comunidad de Tecnología Cívica en América Latina

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makesense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
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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
• The People
• Govtech

Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

• Newspeak
• CTFG partners

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• In-person meetings
• Hubs

Climate and social justice community space

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

• Media
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Civic data
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

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To raise a new set of civic tech leaders that transform governance

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A Pronunciation Guide for Names

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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
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• Conferences

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.

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

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.

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#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
• The People
• Media

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.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

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

• peace

• In-person meetings
• Conferences