Civic Tech Field Guide
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Urban Technology at University of Michigan
Michigan, USATracking the development and thinking of the newest undergraduate program at UM's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
PDX City Sync
Portland, ORPDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.
Wings
United States of America (the)A website platform for progressive campaigns.
Poznan's Smart City app
Poznań, PolandAfter the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive
Fact Checks for Internet Archive Wayback Machine Pages
San FranciscoThe Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
Whose Streets report
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAHarvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project
Civic Innovation Corps
1201 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAMobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.
Open Justice Oklahoma
OklahomaOpen Justice Oklahoma (OJO) seeks to improve understanding of our justice system through analysis of public data.
Digital Transformation in Government (Online) @ Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USATaught by David Eaves
Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world
Local Digital UK Training Library
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)While COVID-19 has put a temporary stop to our classroom-based training, we have created a library of online training courses to support local authority staff to learn and develop their digital skills.
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
New York City, NY, USAA Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
SMARTFISH H2020
EuropeSMARTFISH H2020 is an international research project which aims to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector.
uslaw.link
Washington, DCThe full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.
US Federal Chief Data Officer Council
Washington, DCThe Council’s vision is to improve government mission achievement and increase the benefits to the Nation through improvement in the management, use, protection, dissemination, and generation of data in government decision-making and operations.
The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world
Hansard (Millbank Systems version)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Now available at https://hansard.parliament.uk/
Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:
Connecting NGOs with Tech. A voluntary movement of tech companies to help non-governmental organizations around the world implement digital solutions to scale up their activities.
You want to tell great stories? You’re not alone. Hostwriter powers the collaborative future of journalism.
PLACE is a non-profit data trust that creates and stewards hyperlocal mapping data for a membership community that is open to all and serves the public interest.
The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can
Apolitical Microcourses
LondonInteractive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.
Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.
Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechWe explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017
Resident Fellows seek to advance society's understanding of surveillance capitalism and change the way Reset works by embedding within Reset to produce creative research and technology outputs.
DSFSG aims to enable collaboration within the data software for social good ecosystem and welcome a diverse and independent set of member projects.
Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.
In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott: 100 Days of Action Tracker
Baltimore, MDBaltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.
An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software.
The Boston Globe's Biden endorsement
The Boston Globe, Exchange Place, Boston, MA, USAIn this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
New York University, New York, NY, USAS.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.
BoardTrack
New York CityBoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC
The United States Statutes at Large from 1973-1994
United States of America (the)Congress.gov is now OCRing the official Statutes at Large compilation, covering Congress's Generation X era of 1973-1994.
We're looking for tech workers, researchers, journalists and content creators who want to tell the stories of collective action in tech in the Global South.
iDPI looks to move beyond "fixing" existing internet infrastructures like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and asks what we might build if we constructed digital spaces for the public good instead.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York CityIn 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.
City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.
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