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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Data61
AustraliaWe collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.
MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement
SAFELAB
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, USAThe SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
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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
Civic Studios
Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaThe production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.
BU Initiative on Cities
75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USAThe Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.
Norman Lear Center
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, USAStudying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society
Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking system used by large fishing vessels.
Mobile Phone Data for Optimizing Bus Routes in Korea
Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)The Data and Statistics division of Seoul’s metropolitan government analyzed late night call records provided by the Korean telecom KT Company to plan bus routes in a more inclusive manner.
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.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
Cities of the Future
10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, USAEach episode explores one idea or innovation that will transform cities.
Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.
Beeck Center
Georgetown University, Washington, DCThe Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.
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.
Mapa da Inovação Política
Brazil (Brasil)The largest and most extensive mapping of emerging political practices in Latin America.
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.
Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.
Civic Projects Directory
908a N 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, USABrowse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.
Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.
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.
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USABuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
113 Moses Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.
Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.
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.
ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.
Earth Observation for Disaster Risk Management
This book is meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy.
A podcast highlighting the new normal of urbanism in our globalized cities, as told by Kristen Jeffers and Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman - two female urbanists. . 38 Tracks. 277 Followers. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Third Wave Urbanism on your desktop or mobile device.
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.
GovTech Magazine
100 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USAThe first national magazine covering information technology in state and local government.
The list contains relevant articles for anyone interested in understanding the space of technological solutions to societal, governmental, and society-government interface problems.
Explora Latam
South AmericaMap of Open Data, Civic Technology and social innovation in Latin America
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.
Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.
The Public Impact Observatory
10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva SwitzerlandThe Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
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
Police Case
Sierra LeonePolice Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.
The Civic Data Design Lab
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.
City Of Tomorrow
AmsterdamIt explores how different stakeholders in the Smart City ecosystem can come together to build safer, more efficient and sustainable cities of the future.
This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur.
The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy.
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