Civic Tech Field Guide
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97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.
Our Advance Change Funds -donor advised funds- enable agile and efficient giving for individual donors and institutions.
We are on a mission to end abject poverty around the world by powering a global "skillanthropy" movement.
Identifying discrepancies in prison sentencing based on race
Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator.
Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy
A toolkit for communities to listen, tell stories, and imagine better futures together.
We’re power sector experts who gather, curate and analyse data to empower climate campaign organisations. Our data & analysis helps to shape the global narrative on coal.
The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.
Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond
100 FAQs on Civic Tech, Citizen Participatory Technology, and everything in between
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)An extensive explainer of the civic tech field
In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.
Visualizing climate change
Signal Boost
United States of America (the)It answers the question “what can we do” by boosting the hell out of the great work being done in the resistance.
Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
New York Cityshowcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.
Fiquem Sabendo
Brazil (Brasil)Fiquem Sabendo é uma organização sem fins lucrativos especializada noacesso a informações públicas
A weekly informed and concise guide to immigration news culled from hundreds of sources across the country.
@LeadershipFlack
Washington, DCThis bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.
FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.
San Francisco Public Voice Civic User Testing Program
San FranciscoBy CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.
A project tracking the many attempts to modify the Chilean constitution
AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.
ᴜᴄʟᴀʙ is a visualization research group situated between design, computing, and the humanities.
Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAThe Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.
Non-profit startup accelerator elevating #ClimateTech innovators & founders to move the needle on the climate crisis. Administered by SecondMuse
People using Polarizer can rate the mutual polarization level of one-on-one chats. Their opinions and ratings are visualized as a network graph. The graph is clustered by the peoples mutual polarization ratings.
CitizensLab
BerlinA participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe
City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide
New York CityThis guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.
Resources for building open organizations The Open Organization is a community-driven project leading a global conversation about the ways open principles change how people work, manage, and lead. Our community members generate knowledge and share strategies for building organizational cultures on principles like transparency, adaptability, collaboration, inclusivity, and community.
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom
Civic Tech Montreal
Montreal, QC, CanadaBi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.
Alloy Protect
United States of America (the)Safeguard voters’ rights with data-driven insights. Alloy Protect is an email report that helps election protection groups defend voter rights through transparent, timely access to voter file insights and data.
Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand
18F's State and Local Government practice
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAWe work with state and local governments to help with prototyping and procurement for federally-funded digital public services, using agile acquisition consulting services.
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection
Capitol HillThe Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.
openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project is a groundbreaking, global, feminist investigative journalism initiative dedicated to exposing and challenging organised threats to women’s and LGBTIQ rights.
What if we could use rules, tests, and parameters to isolate hate speech? Can we identify and analyze elements like speaker intent, context, identity, tone, audience, or any number of indicators that transform words into meanings and change an innocuous statement into a verbal assault? Combating the proliferation of online hate speech and understanding its mechanics is a complex undertaking
Urban Scratchoff
New York CityThis site gives you a clever way to explore historical aerial imagery of New York City. You can click and drag on the map to "scratch off" the historical imagery and reveal the same location's present-day imagery. By Chris Whong
Reset how you publish with Hypergraph (Beta) Document your research journey step by step, before hindsight happens. Easier for you, better for science. Hypergraph (Beta) is free-to-play, free-to-access, and will have some rough edges. By using it, you can help improve it.
Not 911
New York City, NY, USACommunity Based Alternatives to the Police Not911 is designed to direct you to New York City-based organizations that offer counseling, mediation and intervention services.
Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates
The AR Developer Challenge is a series of community-driven competition events focused on solving problems in areas such as healthcare, education, workforce development, and more
An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use
A global forum to discuss and debate digital transformation within the humanitarian sector, with a focus on data protection laws and humanitarian protection, policy, ethics and action.
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