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Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

• fintech

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Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

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Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

• Climate action

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The Trustable Technology mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

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Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

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Connecting people and power

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A 10-week program for journalists of all levels to learn our community-centered reporting process while covering the South and West Sides

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Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.

• Climate action

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For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.

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It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

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Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

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White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

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• Fight disinformation

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

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Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

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Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

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The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

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Giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want.

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VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

• human rights

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Engagement platform by the City of Athens

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Loomio helps groups of people make decisions together, online

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We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

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Land Steiermark - Open Government Data

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Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

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The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

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• Emerging tech

For the first time, city leaders can track the real-time pulse of how every neighborhood feels about trust and safety, and develop strategies for their improvement.

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• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Across the globe, government teams are pioneering new ways to solve our biggest challenges. States of Change is a collective that exists to support this growing global movement

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Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

• cities
• urban planning

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Follow My Vote aims to change the way we vote, becoming the world's first secure open-source online voting software based on blockchain technology.

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OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.

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The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

• criminal justice

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• Engagement tech

Citizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.

• youth

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• Online forums

Envisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

EasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Slido is an audience interaction tool for meetings, events and conferences. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.

• The Tech
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• Online forums

The data flow layer for political tech. Making data accessible to progressive tools has never been more important.

• partisan

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• Organize campaigns

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

• Google

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To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

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BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

• apps

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Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US Election 2020

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With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

• apps
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• noise

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A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

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Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.

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• Data schemas and standards