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Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Online Communities

Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Online Communities

United States of America (the)

A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance

https://communityrule.info/assets/book/gov-booklet-MASTER.pdf
Democracy Studio: Practical guide to artificial intelligence on citizen engagement

Democracy Studio: Practical guide to artificial intelligence on citizen engagement

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Studio-artificial-intelligence-engagement-ebook/dp/B098HMHXPW/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DJS2BD17FZWJB02YVRW2
Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World

Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change.

https://www.routledge.com/Design-for-Social-Innovation-Case-Studies-from-Around-the-World/Amatullo-Boyer-May-Shea/p/book/9780367898427
Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-software-9780190863845?cc=ke&lang=en&
Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation

Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation

Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Data-Now-Investing-Innovation/dp/0071829776
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210805165314/http://octaviasbrood.com/
Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

https://www.demos.org/press-release/rebuilding-american-democracy-era-crisis
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

https://smartenoughcity.mitpress.mit.edu/
Opening the Government of Canada

Opening the Government of Canada

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

https://www.ubcpress.ca/opening-the-government-of-canada
The Open Data Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Open Data

The Open Data Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Open Data

Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

http://opendatahandbook.org/
Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Canada

A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/310887/citizenville-by-gavin-newsom-with-lisa-dickey/9780143124474
Ours to hack and own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Ours to hack and own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ours-to-hack-and-to-own/
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

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.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Gower Street, London, UK

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/107613
Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons

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.

https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities
Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

San Francisco

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

http://beyondtransparency.org/
How to talk to civic hackers

How to talk to civic hackers

This book is meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy.

https://www.civichacking.guide/
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Platform-Taking-Culture-Digital/dp/0805093567
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317
The CUTgroup book

The CUTgroup book

Chicago, IL

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

https://www.cutgroupbook.com/
Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316811/heartificial-intelligence-by-john-c-havens/
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

https://ghostwork.info/
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America, by Hollie Russon Gilman

Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America, by Hollie Russon Gilman

Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation.

https://www.brookings.edu/book/democracy-reinvented/
Platform point cooperation 平台點合作

Platform point cooperation 平台點合作

Hong Kong

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.

http://www.logos.com.hk/bf/acms/content.asp?site=logosbf&op=show&type=product&code=IB933
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It

Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber
Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

Barcelona, Spain

In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is emerging to defend human rights, democracy and the common good. Fearless Cities is the first book written by and for the global municipalist movement.

http://fearlesscities.com/en/book