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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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Open Definition

Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE

Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society

Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)

Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)

Rincón 477 Of.803 CP.11000 Montevideo Uruguay

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

Opening the Government of Canada

Opening the Government of Canada

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

Internet Governance Forum

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

Comment les outils numériques renouvellent la démocratie locale

Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

Flowminder

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.

National Voter Registration Day

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus attention on the importance of registering to vote and voting in our democracy during a single day of on-the-ground and digital efforts lead by government, nonprofits, and businesses.

Civic Tech Innovation Database (South Africa)

The Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.

Ours to hack and own: the ride of platform cooperativism

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.

Oxford Internet Institute

Oxford Internet Institute

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

DemocracyLab

DemocracyLab

2410 E Interlaken Blvd, Seattle, WA, USA

Accelerating Civic Innovation

Ctrl Alt Right Delete

Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

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

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, ...

NNIP Catalog of data trainings

NNIP Catalog of data trainings

The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USA

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

Open Cities Lab

Open Cities Lab

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

Digital Civil Society Lab

Digital Civil Society Lab

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

TRACKBACK

TRACKBACK

BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA

BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation

Open Hardware Observatory

Open Hardware Observatory

Brussels, Belgium

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

City Science Network

City Science Network

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

Global Disinformation Index

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

Missing Numbers

Missing Numbers

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't

Tools for Reporters

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

Barcelona Metropolis Dossiers

The new Barcelona Metròpolis wants to be a tool for promoting and stimulating citizen debate on the big questions affecting our future.

Solving Problems Using Technology

Solving Problems Using Technology

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

Election Tech Handbook

Election Tech Handbook

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election

NextCity

Next City is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.

International School for Transparency

INTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International

Data for Black Lives

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

CITRIS – Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

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)

Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)

113 Moses Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720

EGAP 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.

Acumen Academy (formerly Plus Acumen)

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.

Global Network Initiative

Global Network Initiative

718 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

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