The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic data

A tool that shows how MPs use Twitter

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement journalism

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Parliamentary Initiative to open the National Assembly to citizens and the civic tech community

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Help build the free database of UK election candidates

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

Measure air quality yourself

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

a tool to crowdsource answers to FOIA request.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

• apps
• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A lightweight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

a user-friendly platform that centralizes data about all public services and facilities that can cater to the needs of vulnerable citizens, such as where to eat, to shower, to find shelter or get social welfare

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winners ... Read More

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Journalism

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

segítünk tisztán látni - tracks public meetings

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Drone maps and 3D models processed in the cloud for construction, mining, energy, & more.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

What effect does bureaucratic responsiveness have on citizen participation?

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

• books
• labor

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

TLC Data Hub offers users a new and convenient location to access and visualize taxi and for hire industry data.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).Problemele punctuale din cartierele orașului, cum ar fi gropi în asfalt, câini comunitari, resturi menajere sau moloz aruncate la întâmplare, gunoi în mijloacele de transport, disfuncţionalităţi în iluminatul public, coşuri de gunoi vandalizate, vehicule abandonate, blocaje din cauza zăpezii, avarii apă rece şi caldă, canalizare înfundată etc, pot fi transmise direct de pe dispozitivul mobil către dispeceratele operatorilor de servicii publice, pentru a acţiona cu promptitudine şi a limita eventualele pagube.Sesizările transmise vor fi însoţite de fotografie, descriere şi localizare GPS, oferind autorităţilor identificarea exactă a locaţiei incidentelor. Raportează o problemă şi vei primi răspuns la sesizarea ta direct pe telefonul mobil!Noutăţi:Vizitează pagina Primăriei Oradea: http://www.oradea.roConectează-te cu noi pe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrimariaOradeaProbleme? Sugestii?Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie dezvoltată de Mobiversal. Aşteptăm să ne scrieţi pe http://www.mobiversal.com sau pe [email protected]. Cu cât aflăm mai multe de la voi, cu atât aplicaţia poate să devină mai bună.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Formerly &Partners. We craft creative solutions and build technology products that improve the communities you serve.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Best in class P2P texting and calling tools to help you reach your audiences at scale.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighborhood community.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Enrich your stories with charts, maps and tables.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data