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People's Press

58 Victoria Embankment

People’s Press is a fictional community magazine exploring the use of digital social innovation in the year 2030

The 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.

culture

STREETSBLOG

Better walking, biking, and transit

City Journal

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Civic Tech Innovation Network

Johannesburg, South Africa

Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

Code.gov

Washington, DC

Sharing America's Code. Unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government’s software

Chatham House Commission on Democracy and Technology

10 St James's Square, London, UK

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

PeoplesHub.org

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

Mobile Phone Data for Optimizing Bus Routes in Korea

Data Does Good

Digital Impact

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

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, UK

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

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

Data for Climate Action (D4CA)

CityMonitor (formerly CityMetric)

Emily's List Training Center

Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI)

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies

Oxford, UK

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

Global Forest Watch

NonProfit Tech for Good

Tucson, Arizona

A Fundraising & Social Media Blog for Nonprofits

TRACKBACK

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

BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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

cities

Global Disinformation Index

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

National University of Singapore Centre for Integrated Building Energy and Sustainability in the Tropics (CiBEST)

Tracxn Govtech Sector Report

Extensive Tracxn 2018 report on the Govtech startup investment landscape.

reports

Data61

Australia

We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

Heartificial Intelligence

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

books

Feeding America and Map the Meal Gap

International School for Transparency

Vilnius, Lithuania

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

trainings

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

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

racial equity

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.

The CUTgroup book

Chicago, IL

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

books

DMC International Imaging

Local STEM Database

Hayward, CA, USA

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

STEM

The Engine Room

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.

The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

Third Wave Urbanism podcast

A podcast highlighting the new normal of urbanism in our globalized cities, as told by Kristen Jeffers and Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman - two female urbanists. . 38 Tracks. 277 Followers. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Third Wave Urbanism on your desktop or mobile device.

podcasts

The Cleaners

Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, Germany

It tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.

films

Citizen interaction design

Michigan, USA

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

rural

Ghost Work

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

books
labor

Catalogue of all projects working to solve Misinformation and Disinformation

This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…

mySociety Research

483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS United Kingdom

Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.

Beyond Uptake

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 Switzerland

The 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