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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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.
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USABuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Open Hardware Observatory
BrusselsThe 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
Barcelona Metropolis Dossiers
Barcelona, SpainThe 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
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAI-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.
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
Data for Black Lives
United States of America (the)Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.
Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.
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
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.
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.
Public Data University is APDU’s signature education initiative, designed to develop the knowledge and skills of data users of every experience level.
Global Network Initiative
718 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USAProtecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
Earth Observation for Disaster Risk Management
Local STEM Database
Hayward, CA, USAA crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi
The Cleaners
Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, GermanyIt tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.
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.
A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.
Décider ensemble
128 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, FranceDécider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
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MIT GOV/LAB
30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USAThe MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
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.
Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.
The Public Impact Observatory
10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva SwitzerlandThe Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work
Radio for good
Bristol, United KingdomInfrequent podcast covering various tech for good ventures
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Chapel Hill, NCThe impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
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.
iCivics
1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USAiCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
London Plus
LondonChampioning London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections
Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch
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