Civic Tech Field Guide
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This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.
State of AI Report 2023
LondonRelevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Including key indicators of online violence escalation and how to systematically record digital threats
This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.
A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs
Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAThis report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation
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South AmericaBrasil: Investigação transnacional revela empresas de marketing político ligadas à extrema direita
A publicação visa colaborar na construção de estratégias de proteção, fomentando oficinas coletivas com defensoras e defensores de direitos humanos (DDHs), movimentos sociais e organizações da sociedade civil.
The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.
How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective
A Snapshot Of Artificial Intelligence Procurement Challenges
GovLab New York UniversityDiagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government
A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023
The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.
This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.
Are We Together?
EthiopiaThe findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
South AfricaA Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders
Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.
How Cities Make Software Together
Cornell TechA report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
Sustaining and Scaling Civic and Government Technology
Washington, DCA report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."
Building a Culture of Innovation in Government
United States of America (the)This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.
This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.
A report: How can stories help us change systems?
A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).
What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance
This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.
OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
Paris, FranceThe OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.
Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.
Measuring the state of data for the public good
A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest
What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?
Over the past decade, alarms have sounded the need for the humanitarian sector to start seriously considering the impacts of technology and how it should be used. This paper aims to raise another but different alarm: The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.
Institute for Nonprofit News Index Annual Report
Beverly HillsThe Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.
Wicked Problems Might Inspire Greater Data Sharing
The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAA report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson George Washington University
A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials
Publi Ou Fake
BrazilUma 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.
In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public sphere.
A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress
InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.
Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022
A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations
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