There are many elements that comprise a smart or intelligent city

• books
• city

• Smart Cities and sensors

This book lays out an impressive, well-articulated set of trends that have affected or will soon affect local governments throughout the nation through technology.

• books

• Govtech

Located at the nexus between politics and the digital, this PhD thesis wants to shed light on the changing dynamics, opportunities and challenges citizens and parties are confronted with due to ongoing technological changes

• books

This thesis frames the ongoing collection of location data as an ongoing population survey. The ethics of data collection are beyond the scope of this work.

• books

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Data donations

This book provides a new analytical perspective on the strategies, membership and communication management of political parties in Poland

• books

This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements, the movements who ‘see their everyday experiences and creations as the revolution they are making’, together with these movements and in taking the diversity of their ...

• place-based
• books

• Direct action

It shows how public managers need toretain and develop their own IT expertise and to carefully maintain well-contested markets if they are to deliver value for money in their dealings with the very powerful global IT industry

• books

Participatory Budgeting (PB) has expanded to over 1,500 municipalities worldwide since its inception in Porto Alege, Brazil in 1989 by the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party).

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

This book is the story of Delmer and his modern investigator, as they each embark on their own quest to manipulate the passions of supporters and enemies, and to turn the tide of an information war, an extraordinary history that is ...

• books

• Fight disinformation

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016: “Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world

• books

• Citizen science

Packed with practical classroom resources, examples from popular culture, and engaging insights into the CIA analyst role, this book is designed to support middle and high school teachers with news and media literacy in social studies, ...

• books
• teachers & educators

• Media and social media analysis
• Media literacy

We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.

• Open knowledge

Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate's analysis of 31 digital participation platforms

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Le site Mon député permet de connaître le vote de tous les députés français à l’Assemblée nationale sur les projets de loi les plus importants, depuis juin 1997

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Undervaka har tagit tempen på offentlighetsprincipen 2017

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

ППЛ – зареєстрована у 2016 році неприбуткова організація, яка об’єднала експертів з великим досвідом роботи та високим рівнем експертиз у неурядовому секторі.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

iLab Liberia is a non-profit local tech hub that provides access to information, open and geospatial data, research, web technologies and expert ICT assistance through a community of volunteers leveraging technology for the good of Liberia.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The Atlas contains measurements of nine indicators for cities all around the world.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• city
• mass transit

• Civic maps
• Mapping

From 17th to 19th October in Valongo, Portugal ​

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others

In the period between the beginning of 2021 and the middle of 2022, we investigated open-source digital infrastructures used by communities that are under the constant threat of violation of civil and environmental rights.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Environmental data

#GotaGoHome: The hashtag that defined Sri Lanka’s revolution

• human rights
• humanitarian

• Advocacy tech
• Protest movements

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding is a Search for Common Ground Sri Lanka project to establish a digital learning, networking, mentorship, and professional development platform for youth (ages 18-29) interested in addressing online dangerous hate speech.

• hate speech
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital participation platforms
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy

Caught in the Web (CitW) is a 26 month initiative supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office United Kingdom where Search for Common Ground, Hashtag Generation, and Centre for Equality and Justice work as a consortium to advance effective responses to gendered online hate speech and cyber sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lanka.

• hate speech
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Citizen Engagement
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

• Issue
• hate speech
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Campaign tools

The Digital Wellbeing Initiative in Sri Lanka is a project that collaborates with youth, technology professionals, artists, and policymakers to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the digital landscape with skill and intellect and find a balance between the promise of technology and their personal well-being.

• mental health
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy

Since 1982, Search for Common Ground has been building peace, transforming societies, and using innovative tools to end violent conflict around the world.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Community

• Digital peacebuilding

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to public data

• refugees
• COVID-19

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Academia

Humans of the House has received national media coverage and has been the #1 show in the Government category for several weeks on Apple Podcasts where it has also been featured as a New & Noteworthy Special Series.

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Podcasts

CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Building inside government

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.

• free speech
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Journalism
• Civic maps
• Story-based campaigns

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

• culture

• Narrative tech
• Artistic interventions

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity

• Crowdsourcing

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Social networks
• Find your representatives

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• city
• OpenStreetMap
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Online education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses
• Diplomacy

RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.

• Democratic Innovations
• Quadratic voting

Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Predecessors

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Open knowledge

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools