Civic Tech Field Guide
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An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.
We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.
Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuity
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.
Ada's List
LondonAll about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.
This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.
Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework For Public Agency Accountability
New York City, NY, USAA framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
ACCESS NYC
New York City, NY, USAFind help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.
A+ Alliance
Geneva, SwitzerlandA 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.
ActionBound
Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, GermanyTake people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
AlaveteliCon
Oslo, NorwayA Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety
An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.
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.
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
A strategy for urban data
Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69, 1011 HB Amsterdam, Netherlands(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers
We fund research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics
18F Posters
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAWell designed posters to hang in your gov office
AbreLatam
South AmericaAbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.
AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.
Accelerating Appalachia
Appalachian MountainsACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.
By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill
Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.
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
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
Consul's Slack
AmsterdamAn online forum to discuss the CONSUL engagement platform
Principles for Digital Development
United Nations FoundationA set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.
Code for Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto RicoSomos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.
Code for Japan Slack Community
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)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.
Increasing access to healthcare, advancing new research and ideas, and improving people’s quality of life, no matter where they call home.
As the largest community foundation in the nation, SVCF helps build and strengthen the community by bringing together people and organizations who want to strengthen the common good.
Democracy and Digital Media conference
42 Second Street, East Cambridge, MA 02141, USATo have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.
Innovate Africa
AfricainnovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Domestic Workers Alliance, Broadway, New York, NY, USAThe National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States, most of whom are women.
Innovations in Participatory Democracy Conference
Phoenix, AZ, USAIn March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.
Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.
GovTech Top 25
United States of America (the)A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.
The Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab
Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
Aspen Institute, North 3rd Street, Aspen, CO, USAThe Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.
PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.
Senseable Cities
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force
NYC Poverty Data Research Fellow
New York CityFellows will work closely with PRU staff to support multiple research projects including statistical data analysis and monitoring the poverty reduction effects of the city’s anti-poverty initiatives.
Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.
At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan seek to advance human potential and promote equal opportunity.
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