Civic Tech Field Guide
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Transit Tech Lab
New York CityThe Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.
The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.
Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.
Community Approach to Research Partnerships @ Emerson
Emerson College, Boylston Street, Boston, MA, USAThe Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...
Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world
En el mundo, todo evoluciona, incluso, en el área de la seguridad.
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.
The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.
Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...
Code for Ibaraki
Ibaraki Prefecture, JapanIt is a non-profit voluntary organization whose base is Ibaraki Prefecture (we call it a community). Code for Ibaraki's
NNIP Catalog of data trainings
The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USAThis catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.
Code for Sacramento
Sacramento, California, USAWe connect civic technologists with project leaders who have ideas for community solutions.
Public Interest Technology Summit
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Public Interest Technology Summit is the evolution of the Alumni Digital Summit hosted last October in collaboration with Alumni Relations.
Open Cities Lab
153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South AfricaOpen Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.
Digital Civil Society Lab
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAHelping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.
Data Zetu Intiaitive
United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.
Apolitical’s Future Skills Tracker is a quick, easy tool you can use to work out which are your strongest abilities — and which you should focus on for development to future-proof your career.
Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, 10179 Berlin, Germanywe are what we create together
Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.
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.
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.
Code for Sonoma County
Santa Rosa, California, USACode for Sonoma County is a Code for America brigade or local chapter focused on improving the lives of residents of Sonoma County.
Making Public Information, Public Knowledge
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed, North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USABuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons
487 Central Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.
Citizen Beta
LondonThe civic tech meetup for people working on civic technology, empowering citizens, and government transformation.
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.
Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.
Code for Dayton
Dayton, OhioMaking our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.
ELECTricity is a network of over 1,000 election officials sharing best practices
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.
CivicTechFest Taiwan
Taipei City, TaiwanAsia's First Ever Civic Technology Festival with a week-long Collection of Events.
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.
The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.
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