Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

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• Engagement tech
• Govtech

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

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• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

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• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

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• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

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• Graveyard
• Participatory budgeting

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

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• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Discover the web's most comprehensive professional resource on Congress. 2014 WebbyAward Winner. Vote on bills and send your message to Congress.

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

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• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

City Innovate Foundation

• Hubs

ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to popular internet services

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• Graveyard
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

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• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

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• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support

• Govtech

New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.

• Organize campaigns
• Bots
• SMS tools

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

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• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Hardware

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Working groups

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

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• The People
• Civic data

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Tech for public challenges

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

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• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Tech for public challenges
• Government transparency
• Civic tech catalogs

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

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• Media
• Fight disinformation

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Texting large volumes of potential voters is possible while remaining compliant with TCPA rules thanks to new technology.

• Campaign tools
• SMS tools
• Peer to peer SMS

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006 under the auspices of the Finnish European Presidency, the network has grown in ‘waves’ up to this day.

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• Meet the others
• Socialize online

CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• CRM

The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.

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• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

• indigenous

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• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Cap Colectif instance. Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

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• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Leading nonprofits, political campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy organizations rely on Amicus's digital organizing tools

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Fast Forward — Accelerating technology nonprofits. Fast Forward provides funding, training, mentorship, and community for tech-based nonprofits.

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• Build something
• Accelerators

Our program offers real-time tracking of school buses through a mobile web app. We hope that — in a small way — this creates a better experience for parents and students.

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• Engagement tech
• Govtech

I am Vigilant" is a Tunisian, non-profit, and independent monitoring organization that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency

A fast way to get digitally safe & secure.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

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• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Apptorney is a platform agnostic mobile application that uses natural language processing and content indexing and categorization to provide user friendly search functionality to its users

18 - 20 November 2019 in Rotterdam

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• The People
• Govtech

Crisis Response is a place on Facebook where you can find information about recent crises, use Safety Check to connect with friends and loved ones during a crisis, give or find help to people in the affected area, and create or donate to fundraisers to support recovery efforts.

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

Welcome to the ORIGINAL channel of Resistencia, Venezuela Hasta los Tuétanos. It is an information room about the political, social, and economic situation that Venezuela is going through.

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• Media
• Engagement tech

The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers