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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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
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
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.
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.
Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
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.
ActionBound
Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, GermanyTake people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.
By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
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.
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.
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
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
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
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
Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.
Strong Towns is a non-profit organization working to support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become financially strong and resilient.
Poligonal
Engeldamm 28, 10179 Berlin, Germanycustomisation of our city walks, workshops, and seminars to your thematic requirements and individual interests.
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Chapel Hill, NCThe impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
The Center for Social Media and Politics
70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USATo directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.
MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.
Civic Tech Innovation Database (South Africa)
Johannesburg, South AfricaThe Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.
The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)
3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Feeding America and Map the Meal Gap
United States of America (the)This collaboration between Feeding America and Nielsen in 2014 collected and mapped data about food insecurity across America to aid research and advocacy efforts.
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
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