The strength of democracy lies in its ability to embrace and balance differences to serve society as a whole.

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From 17th to 19th October in Valongo, Portugal ​

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• Participatory democracy
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G4I has been designed to serve as THE global meeting place that assembles governments – across all levels – to learn how to securely streamline processes, increase efficiencies, reduce costs and meaningfully transform public service delivery.

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• Govtech
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The Commonwealth community of Legislatures is a diverse group of institutions that at the same time hold many institutional similarities, enabling further opportunities for institutional cooperation, in the field of legislative modernisation and digital transformation.

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• Conferences
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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• Advocacy tech

The conference brings together trust and safety researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, civil society, and government.

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• Digital security and privacy

WhatsApp community hosted by turn.io

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• Bots

Welcome to the first global community for stateless people and their allies. Together we empower stateless people.

• immigration
• migration
• refugees

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• Solidarity networks
• Justice tech

A coworking space for all people working on tech related to the upcoming [UK] general election. Both partisan & non-partisan projects welcome!

• 2024 elections

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• Voting and elections
• Civic hacking meetups

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.

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The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

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• Hubs

Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 7-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
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• Conferences

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

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The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

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• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
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Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

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• Academia

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Govtech
• Civic data
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Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

• Media
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• Journalism

Over 860 "Coders, product managers and anyone who wants to help the party win with better technology."

• partisan

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• Advocacy tech
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Interaktywna przestrzeń do wynajęcia, w której dzięki technologii, sztuka łączy się z mediami

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• Hubs

BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs

Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data

• guides

• Civic data
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a hackathon (now in its second edition) in which teams work collaboratively from different Latin American countries to find creative solutions to problems posed by civil society in the first phase of the event. More than 20 areas of knowledge dialogued collaboratively to solve challenges in Science and Education during #CoAfina.

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• Civic hackathons

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

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A la fois laboratoire d’innovation publique, équipe d’experts pluridisciplinaires, centre de ressource et de formation, réseau dédié à l’innovation - le Lieu de la Transformation Publique propose, depuis 2019, un accompagnement sur mesure aux porteurs de projets engagés dans une démarche de transformation.

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"...Open source hardware gives people the freedom to control their technology while sharing knowledge and encouraging commerce through the open exchange of designs."

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• Citizen science
• Hardware

This e-group is created as a part of social movement building initiaves with the aim to share knowledge and discuss the latest development and issues related to the regional community integration of ASEAN. All are welcome.

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• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

forum - tudo sobre dados abertos

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A mailing list for the UK democracy space

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• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

We connect volunteers (developers, graphic designers, marketing specialists) with impactful social good projects to help them with tech.

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• Civic hacking meetups

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

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The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

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Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

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• Peer networks

PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.

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• Civic hacking meetups
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Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

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• Civic hacking meetups
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We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

• cities

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• Peer networks

A group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.

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• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

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• Civic hacking meetups

The Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.

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• Hubs

Computer scientists for e-democracy Facebook Group

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Out in Tech is the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders.

• LGBTQI

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• Peer networks

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• Adjacent Fields
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• Digital security and privacy

We run weekly(ish) civic hacknights for everyone.

• g0v

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• Civic hacking meetups

The vision of Code for Sri Lanka is to improve the technology that runs Sri Lanka by voluntarily helping government organizations to digitally transform in alignment with the vision for a digital Sri Lanka.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Our Slack workspace helps individuals in the Responsible Tech ecosystem connect with one another, discuss research, share events, learn about careers and job opportunities, and more. In addition, we have channels for specific locations to allow for people to collaborate based on vicinity.

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

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• Conferences
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Code for Dallas is an official Code for America Brigade in Dallas, TX working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

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Code for BTV is an organization based in Vermont that works on projects to address technology problems for social and civic justice organizations.

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• Civic apps outfits

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

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eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.

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• Mastodon