Civic Tech Field Guide
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This category collects different learning resources about civic tech. You can find from blogs that explain how to enhance the relationship between people and governments to podcasts and films on how humanitarian organizations are responding to crises. The collection also includes books, newsletters, research, catalogs, reports, and information about courses, trainings, and workshops.
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From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.
Modern Parliament
United States of America (the)Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world
Digital Fundamentals for Public Impact
Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United StatesOnline course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.
National Civic Review
Washington, DCThe National Civic League's Quarterly Journal, "One of the Nation’s Oldest and Most Respected Journals of Civic Affairs"
During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.
As we move solidly into 2024, we have been considering how civic infrastructures, currently and in the future, will affect our experiences with technology, our experiences with services we take for granted, and how we relate to one another.
Participate Practically
Prague, Czechia‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.
interweave.gov
LondonYour weekly insight into GovTech collaboration and innovation in Europe and Asia
Commons Library
AustraliaThe Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.
OECD Deliberative Democracy Database (2023)
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceThe OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more
This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.
Public Sector Network
Sydney NSW, AustraliaPublic Sector Network is a social learning platform that exists to help government around the globe break down silos, collaborate, and work together for better outcomes for citizens.
Deliberative Democracy Digest
University of CanberraThe Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).
The Public Interest Tech Webring is a collection of blogs dedicated to civic tech, public interest tech, government tech policy, and similar topics.
Advocacy Assembly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.
Civicspace.tech
Washington, DCA collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks
Ampliando Democracia (podcast)
Madrid (Spain)Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.
Journal für politische Bildung
Frankfurt am MainPolitische Bildung zu diskutieren und zu stärken sind die Ziele der zentralen Fachzeitschrift Journal für politische Bildung.
Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?
Digitally Yours Podcast
Tunisia (Tunis)Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
United States of America (the)A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America.
Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally
A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech
Курсы
MoscowТеплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений
Cornell Tech
Cornell TechCornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.
In Case You Missed It
100 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USAJoin us weekly for government technology news, trends and interviews. Tune in live each Friday at 12:00 PM PT.
The state of Civic Tech Research in Africa: An Evidence Map
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).
the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.
A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Smart Cities Certificate
DenverThe certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
University of CanberraThe Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."
"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance."
Democracy Labs
San FranciscoDemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.
In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.
Hub for Civic Tech Impact
Boston, MAThe Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.
Civic Tech Field Guide
LisbonThe Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Advocacy Assembly
LondonAdvocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.
Socks Talk Politics
Vienna“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.
Democracy Technologies
ViennaA magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.
Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
United States of America (the)In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes
The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy
United States of America (the)How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi
This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network
CIPESA
Kampala, UgandaICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa
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.
SALTO Resource pool
EuropeA collection of 700+ resources targeted at EU youth
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