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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Joinup (formerly Open Source Observatory and Repository)
European Commission, Rue Philippe Le Bon, Brussels, BelgiumShare and reuse Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
133 Bethnal Green Road Londona crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak
Games for Cities City-Game Database
AmsterdamThis is a growing collection of games that improve city making
Google Sheet of Educational programs for technology and social justice/social good/public interest/civics/etc.
Climate Modeling in Colombia
Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Avenida Jimenez De Quesada, Bogota, ColombiaIn a cross-sector partnership led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, The Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano (Colombian Climate and Agricultural Sector; CSAC) provides meteorological data to farmers along with data on the economics and agronomy of rice cultivation.
Civic Engagement interdisciplinary program at UChicago
Edward H. Levi Hall, 5801 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USAUniversity of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.
The Association of Internet Researchers is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders.
Technology and Social Change 2018
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.
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.
A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.
Clear The Lobby
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The laws MPs are voting on this week, explained in plain English. Landing in your inbox every Sunday.
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
55-56 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4HP, UKChanging how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
“Disco Sour is a hallucinatory trip through a future which feels just a phone-swipe away. There are notes of Pynchon, Stross, Heller and Stephenson here, but this is very much Porcaro’s book. It’s wildly inventive, scarily plausible, and it’s also very, very funny.”
Instituto Update
Brazil (Brasil)Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.
Smart Cities Dive provides the latest news and trends on sustainable, connected and livable cities.
Poligonal
Engeldamm 28, 10179 Berlin, Germanycustomisation of our city walks, workshops, and seminars to your thematic requirements and individual interests.
Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.
Network Connectivity across American Communities
United States of America (the)Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US
As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.
An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.
Collection of eIdentity and eSignature solutions
European Commission, Rue Philippe Le Bon, Brussels, BelgiumA resource from Joinup
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.
Announcement & Call for Submissions
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.
The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.
Tech for Good
14-22 Elder Street, London E1 6BT, United KingdomWe shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.
The Urbanist
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaThe Urbanist serves to examine and influence urban policies by promoting and disseminating ideas, creating community, and improving the places we live.
Instituto Update Bubble Map
Brazil (Brasil)Explore 366 South American civic tech entities in a data viz
We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.
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.
Public-Interest-Tech
Cambridge, MAIt refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.
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
Connecting Museums and Communities
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.
The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet
Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAWe 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.
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
United States of America (the)National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September
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.
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