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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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
Instituto Update Bubble Map
Brazil (Brasil)Explore 366 South American civic tech entities in a data viz
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Connecting Museums and Communities
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mapa da Inovação Política
Brazil (Brasil)The largest and most extensive mapping of emerging political practices in Latin America.
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKA multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
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
Data for Climate Action called upon researchers to harness dataprovided by the multinational banking company BBVA, the global telecommunications provider Orange, Waze, and others for climate-related activities.
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.
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.
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 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
The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USAThis catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.
Open Cities Lab
153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South AfricaOpen 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
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAHelping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.
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