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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Electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.
Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.
Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mobile text reminders for tax payments in Madagascar
Madagascar (Madagasikara)How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes
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.
Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE
The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI)
Valencia, Carabobo, VenezuelaCentro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales
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.
City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around 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.
The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere
New Haven, CTTo support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
A podcast on breakthroughs in public service technology.
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 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.
This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…
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.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
The Hague, NetherlandsFind, share and use humanitarian data all in one place
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
GW Graduate School of Political Management
The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAPolitics for the people, by the people
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.
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.
Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeirostudies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world
Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.
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 Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.
Citizen Data Lab Amsterdam
Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), Weesperzijde, Amsterdam, NetherlandsA research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
El Soberano
ChileEl Soberano aparece entonces como una plataforma informativa que surge desde las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y de los movimientos sociales a efectos de informar directamente a los ciudadanos, sin censuras editoriales, sin aceptar presiones de ningún tipo.
A collection of tools and resources to learn and act on Brexit.
Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.
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.
Ford's Public Interest Technology campaign
320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017, USATechnology at work for the public
The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.
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
Extensive Tracxn 2018 report on the Govtech startup investment landscape.
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.
OGRX is a platform for browsing and sharing research findings about new, innovative ways to solve public problems.
The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy.
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
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