Civic Tech Field Guide
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Unsurprisingly, much of the civic tech community's interactions take place remotely and asynchronously, on Slacks and listservs and forums.
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UK Centre for Democracy Discussion List (UK Democracy Forum)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)A mailing list for the UK democracy space
All Things Urban
BerlinWe are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.
EngageTech Community on LinkedIn
AustraliaA group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.
We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights
Hearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.
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.
eupolicy.social
Europeeupolicy.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.
Last year we piloted an initiative called Community Connections at the Responsible Data mailing list, where we connected two or more members of the community based on their shared interests in responsible data(RD)-related topics, allowing them to chat about topics and projects related to responsible data.
Data Collective
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)An organisation to support data experts working in civil society
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Code for Africa Slack
AfricaDo you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?
A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.
Academia de Innovación Política
Paris, FranceLa Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.
AI4Cities
EuropeSix European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.
A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
Ada's List
London, UKAll about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.
Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents. We are the nation’s most comprehensive philanthropic initiative helping local leaders identify and invest in what works. Applications have now closed to be considered as one of our first 100 cities, but check back soon for new opportunities.
UK Democracy Meetup
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings
Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.
International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.
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
An online forum for community discussion
Public Service Lab
BerlinSupporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications
Democratic Innovation in Megacities
NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USANDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.
Atlas
San Diego, CALearn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities
UnionBase
Washington, DCthe world's first social networking platform for the labor movement with 30,000 Union Profiles
Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.
PDX Women in Tech
Portland, ORPDX Women in Tech exists to encourage women to join tech and support and empower women so they stay in tech.
Poverty Action Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.
A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.
The California Public Technology Roundtable
CaliforniaThe California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.
Open Gov Hub
Washington, DCOpen Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.
ELECTricity is a network of over 1,000 election officials sharing best practices
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Brussels, BelgiumEuropean Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe. We defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment.
More than a doc, Dropbox Paper is a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.
Taftie
Gasthuisstraat 34, 4161 CC Heukelum, NetherlandsTAFTIE is the European Association of leading national innovation agencies
DGI curates focused, in-depth programs where technical communities gather to share their knowledge and success. DGI delivers substantial, useful information
Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.
Code for America's Discourse
972 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USAAn online meeting place to discuss how to use civic technology to improve peoples' lives.
Housing Data Coalition
50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United StatesThe Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.
The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.
CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.
Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.
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.
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