Infrequent podcast covering various tech for good ventures

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To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

• labor
• migration

• Watchdogging and transparency

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Investing in transformative ideas in their earliest stages to promote breakthrough solutions to significant problems

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Safecity provides you with a collection of curated resources ranging from safety products, mobile applications, self defence classes and important legal information to help you stay safe and take necessary action in case you have been harassed

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

There is a universe of government records hidden away in file cabinets and offline databases. With FOIA Mapper, much of that information is now searchable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Tumenye is a civic technology and open data company in Rwanda building tools to help citizens.

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

• The Tech
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Our mission is to make disciples and alleviate poverty through the power of entrepreneurship.

• No poverty
• Decent work and economic growth

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Reported.ly wrapped up in August 2016 but during its brief yet impactful run, its international team of journalists surfaced breaking news and reported on human rights and social justice issues through the expansive lens of social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Apolitical’s Future Skills Tracker is a quick, easy tool you can use to work out which are your strongest abilities — and which you should focus on for development to future-proof your career.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

we are what we create together

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• Socialize online

HEAVY LIFT AND MICRO UAV / UAS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE, INDUSTRIAL, CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION

• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Civic Info is consistent with publishing articles that pertain to various industries. Click on the link to keep track of the top stories.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Search, explore and download UK grant data from funders publishing open data to the 360Giving Standard.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

HousingMaps was the very first Google Maps mashup, created before there was a Google Maps API. It overlaid Craigslist apartment and housing listings on a map, for some 30 US cities plus London.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Progressive election action. Postcarding, phone and text banking, voter registration, canvassing. Every Sunday.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

An Alaveteli instance for Romania

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

CommonPlace, the Civic Tech Lab’s flagship project, is a civic-minded, not-for-profit, and open source web platform for local community engagement.

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies

Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

The Only Nationally Representative Survey of American Mayors

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Robota is a chatbot that guides workers to file a lawsuit against their current or former employers.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

identifying, nurturing & supporting mobile startups in East Africa

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

HXL is a different kind of data standard, designed to improve information sharing during a humanitarian crisis without adding extra reporting burdens.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Power the Polls makes it really easy to sign up to become a poll worker and ensure that there are enough people to staff voting locations across the country.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Fostered solidarity networks against the COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• COVID

the digital engagement catalogue

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Purpose-built specifically for government

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Case study by OECD

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Citizens' Watch is a promise tracker that is designed to empower citizens with the digital tools and information that enables them to track, rate and publish the most significant promises of politicians, in a bid to promote public accountability and participatory governance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Streetbank puts you in touch with your community, bringing neighbourboods closer and making the world a bit nicer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The ODI startup incubator ran from 2012 to 2017 as a 9-12 months programme supporting early stage startups that used open data as part of their business model.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

• No poverty

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A blog about crime in the US.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Create right from your phone with Google

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard