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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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
Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.
The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAThe Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
The Project on Democracy and the Internet
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USATo field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed
TechSoup
435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USATechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.
Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.
China Green Horizon
China (Zhong Guo)China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.
A podcast on breakthroughs in public service technology.
Netzpolitik podcast
Germany (Deutschland)NPP Off The Record ist ein Podcast zu unseren Reportagen und Recherchen, der einen Einblick in die redaktionelle Arbeit gibt. Er erscheint regelmäßig am 1.
Smart Cities Dive provides the latest news and trends on sustainable, connected and livable cities.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Chapel Hill, NCThe impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
Network Connectivity across American Communities
United States of America (the)Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US
Collection of eIdentity and eSignature solutions
European Commission, Rue Philippe Le Bon, Brussels, BelgiumA resource from Joinup
Copenhagen Internet Infrastructure Walk
CopenhagenThis walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.
Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)
Johannesburg, South AfricaMaking technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation
Atlas
San Diego, CALearn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKA major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.
Civic Tech Innovation Network's Medium
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Jan Smuts Avenue, South AfricaThe Civic Tech Innovation Network newsletter and online magazine is produced by the journalism and media lab, university of the witwatersrand, johannesburg
“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
Common Cents Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USASolutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States
The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, USAKnight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech
Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)
Rincón 477 Of.803 CP.11000 Montevideo UruguayILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.
The CUTgroup book
Chicago, ILCivic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…
The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities.
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKA multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.
Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...
Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.
GovTech Magazine
100 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USAThe first national magazine covering information technology in state and local government.
Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.
"To my mind, the ANES has been the single most important resource in my career in political psychology."
Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Explora Latam
South AmericaMap of Open Data, Civic Technology and social innovation in Latin America
City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
Stanford PACs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Stanford, CA, USAScholars. Practitioners. Leaders.
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.
This book is meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
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