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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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
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
100 FAQs on Civic Tech, Citizen Participatory Technology, and everything in between
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)An extensive explainer of the civic tech field
This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.
New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.
Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public 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.
By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.
ActionBound
Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, GermanyTake people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.
A+ Alliance
Geneva, SwitzerlandA Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, Florida, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.
Code for Japan's Civitan Civic Tech Explainer
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)のびしろ、おもしろっ。シビックテック - シビックテックの3つのアプローチ
Public Interest Technology Workforce Survey Findings
Georgetown University, Washington, DCThe Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers
The Government We Need is a podcast exploring the government of the future and how it can best serve everyone.
Monocole 24: The Urbanist
Marylebone, London, UKWith an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.
mySociety Research
483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS United KingdomInvestigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.
A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.
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.
Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.
by Hollie Russon Gilman. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation.
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USACarnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online
Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.
The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy.
Rebuilding Government is a podcast about the people, technology, and missions redefining government. From local officials to government technology founders, we're diving into how people are reinvigorating our public institutions. In collaboration with UNIT Innovations.
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force
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