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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Poligonal
Engeldamm 28, 10179 Berlin, Germanycustomisation of our city walks, workshops, and seminars to your thematic requirements and individual interests.
Data & Society Research Institute
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USAData & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.
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.
Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.
DSI Futures
EuropeWe believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.
Instituto Update Bubble Map
Brazil (Brasil)Explore 366 South American civic tech entities in a data viz
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world
HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)
Fluwelen Burgwal 582511, The Hague, The NetherlandsUser-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.
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.
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.
Opening the Government of Canada
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke
Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.
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.
A report on innovations attempted by Mobile Network Operators following the major earthquake in Nepal
Latinno
Berlincases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)
Civic Tech Innovation Database (South Africa)
Johannesburg, South AfricaThe Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.
Genomic Data Commons
United States of America (the)
A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.
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.
Speculative Tourism
JerusalemSpeculative Tourism is an international project that operates at the crossroads of science fiction, historical tourism, Augmented Reality and local action.
Justice Innovation Startup Lab
University of Southern California LALearn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.
Missing Numbers
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't
Civic Leadership Academy at U Chicago
Chicago, ILThe Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.
Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.
Collaborating with progressive organizations and Democratic campaigns around the US to measure & increase the impact of their programs.
Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.
Solving Problems Using Technology
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAI-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.
Centre for Internet and Society
194, 2nd C Cross Rd, Stage 2, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is an Indian, non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives -- including hundreds of articles on Accessibility.
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.
International School for Transparency
Vilnius, LithuaniaINTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International
CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.
The Cleaners
Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, GermanyIt tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.
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
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
The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.
A collection of tools and resources to learn and act on Brexit.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Chapel Hill, NCThe impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
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.
GovEx Center for Government Excellence
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USAGovEx at Johns Hopkins successfully helps governments effectively use data in order to make informed decisions on services that improve people’s lives.
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
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.
Desis Lab New School Social Innovation
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAan action research laboratory
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