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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Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.
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.
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.
Civic Projects Directory
908a N 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, USABrowse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.
A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.
the Centre For Innovation & Technology
45 Moffat Avenue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwewe provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses
Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.
L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)
Extensive Tracxn 2018 report on the Govtech startup investment landscape.
NYU Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA)
New York University, New York, NY, USAThe Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.
Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.
The Markup
New York CityWe are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.
Facebook, OECD and World Bank Measuring Business Sentiment
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceFacebook, World Bank and the OECD launched a measure of business sentiment based on a “Future of Business Survey” questioning companies that use their Facebook pages to connect with customers.
MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.
Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (ViDA)
New York University, New York, NY, USAThe Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.
Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.
TechSoup
435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USATechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.
Atlas
San Diego, CALearn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities
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
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
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.
City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world
Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.
Browse resources, connect with other leaders and see practical examples of smart cities approaches that can help your community thrive.
GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog
GovLab New York UniversityThe CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.
The Government We Need is a podcast exploring the government of the future and how it can best serve everyone.
Monocole 24: The Urbanist
Marylebone, London, UKWith an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.
Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.
Citizens' Initiative Review
OregonCitizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.
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
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAThe Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
It is to analyze what is wrong with democracy and spark conversations about how to fix it.
Participedia
VancouverAnyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
133 Bethnal Green Road Londona crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak
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.
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.
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.”
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