Civic Tech Field Guide
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This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.
Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.
Design Action Research with Government
Burlington, VTDesign Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.
City-Level Decision-Making Tool
21 Rue de Cléry, Paris, FranceThe Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.
Civic Infrastructure Scan
70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USATo build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.
The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.
Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data
an easy-to-use digital safety checklist
Process code for software procurement
3213 Duke Street, Suite 695, Alexandria Virginia, 22314This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.
International Journalists' Network
70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USAIJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and emerging journalists worldwide.
Civic AI Handbook
Prof. Carlos Porter 8 depto.201, Santiago, ChileThe Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.
Deceptive Patterns
Prof. Carlos Porter 8 depto.201, Santiago, ChileA taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
Civicspace.tech
70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USAA collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks
Model Data Governance Policy & Practice Guide For Cities and Counties
70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USAThe Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.
An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.
Por un Entorno Digital Accesible (PUEDA)
240 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USALa iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.
Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?
Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.
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Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."
An open guide promoting participatory urban planning
Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.
The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.
Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.
Climate section of the Participation Playbook
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
How to organize a phone bank
128 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, FranceImprove the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training
Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.
“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.
Accessibility ABCs
101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community
A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice
Publi Ou Fake
1440 G Street NW Washington, DC 20005Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.
A short case study using ESRI to focus your campaign on the areas with the most potential supporters.
Short case studies and guides to using free tools to create campaign videos
The Turing Way
Boston UniversityCommunity-led guides for data science and open research
Standards Lab
MoroccoThis handbook provides an overview of the creation, maintenance and adoption of a policy-related open data standard.
A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.
Guía para la apertura de datos en gobiernos provinciales y locales
240 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USAEste documento fue realizado por el equipo de la Dirección de Datos Abiertos junto con la Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA).
How to publish open data: a list of advice and tools
Do-it-Yourself Open Data Toolkit
Stuttgart, GermanyThe Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Open Data Toolkit is an instructional manual that provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop your open data initiative. It brings together training materials, best practices, tools and resources to help you prepare for and implement an open data project.
A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa
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Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
This overview highlights resources that are available for TU Delft researchers in their Open Science journey.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation. This guide seeks to create an inclusive, collaborative approach to addressing misinformation around the world. While not every law contained here relates to misinformation specifically, they’ve all often been wrapped into that broader discussion. Article will be updated on an ongoing basis.
Demtech Navigator
Yelp, Inc, New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, USAThis is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.
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