Civic Tech Field Guide
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Code for Greensboro
Greensboro, NCLeveraging open civic data and technology to improve access to local government, and community services.
A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.
The Packard Foundation works with people and communities to create solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Smart Colombus Playbook
Columbus, OH, USAAs the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Smart City Challenge, we’ve been offered a unique opportunity: $50 million in grant funding from the USDOT and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies to discover how we can accelerate human progress through open mobility.
Civic Tech Innovation Network's Medium
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Jan Smuts Avenue, South AfricaThe Civic Tech Innovation Network newsletter and online magazine is produced by the journalism and media lab, university of the witwatersrand, johannesburg
Investing in Our Communities Citi and the Citi Foundation are working in new ways to help build equitable and resilient communities
Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.
TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellowship
Washington, DCBuilding 21st Century Government with Technology Talent
We're a global technology consultancy. We help you invent what's next, and bring it to life with technology. In weeks, not years.
The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund was created with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and is funded by USAID and DFID. It is implemented by the USAID-funded SHOPS project, and aims to uncover innovative and replicable solutions that address critical health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Design Gigs for Good
United States of America (the)Design Gigs for Good is a free community-driven resource to help more people use the tools of design to create positive social change.
DSI Futures
EuropeWe believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.
Open Twin Cities
St. Paul, MNA group for civic hackers, innovative government employees, and concerned citizens for the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) metro area
Believing that technology provides endless opportunity, Microsoft Philanthropies works in creating a future where everyone has access to endless possibilities.
From Voicemails to Votes
1875 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, USAA human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.
Code for Asheville
Asheville, NCWe are people who care about our community and want to help make it better.
DataKind Data Dives
New York CityWhether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.
Code for NL
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.
The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.
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.
Automating NYC
New York CityWe want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.
Data Lanterns
MIT Media Labilluminating local water quality through data performances for collective action
the Centre For Innovation & Technology
45 Moffat Avenue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwewe provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses
A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence
Gabinete de Inovação
Asa Sul, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazilum laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros
Impact Management Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact
Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.
GovLab Arnsberg
Seibertzstraße 1, 59821, Arnsberg, Germanyhelps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens
Open Uptown
Chicago, ILWe forge partnerships between neighbors who use technology to improve interactions with, and access to, public services.
Since 2000, the Montpelier Foundation has worked to transform James Madison's Montpelier from a privately owned estate into a destination for more than 125,000 visitors each year. Learn more about the Foundation and support Montpelier's future.
SIM|ED
Columbia University, New York, NY, USASIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.
Ottawa Civic Tech
CanadaOttawa Civic Tech (YOWCT) is a community of citizens from diverse sectors and experiences who are interested in better understanding our complex social and civic challenges and building solutions at t
Omidyar Network
1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.
A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT
Civic Innovation Fellows by BetaNYC
New York CityAbout The Civic Innovation Lab at BetaNYC is committed to serving the growing need for public interest technology in New York City. We use data, design, and technology to make research and information on urban issues more accessible to as many civic partners as possible, especially under-resourced organizations. Our team works with elected officials, government
NYU Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA)
New York UniversityThe Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.
EU Datathon
Brussels, Belgiumevent aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union
Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.
EuroCities Awards
Europethree permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation
By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab
For more than a decade, Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing 3,000+ attendees from around the country and beyond.
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