We are a community group of journalists and others who work in the media, or are planning to in the future.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

• racial equity

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.

• guides

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• Meet the others

Illinois allocates an incredible amount of money to incarcerate people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods — sometimes millions for residents on individual city blocks. There are more effective ways to invest public dollars.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Digital Government Blueprint (DGB) is a statement of the Government’s ambition to better leverage data and harness new technologies, and to drive broader efforts to build a digital economy and digital society, in support of Smart Nation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

A man awakens from a coma and speaks a fully-developed but unknowable language that baffles linguists from all over the world.

• films

• The People
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• Adjacent Fields

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

OpenPaths, a secure datastore for personal location info.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

• democracy
• free speech

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Horizon 2020 was the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020)

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Pagina de start - Portal Legislativ

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The 2016 ONA Conference & Awards Banquet, Sept. 15-17

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Plznito

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Civic Commons Wiki was a collaborative encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, agile development processes, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses in the civic sector.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.

• Wikipedia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Plattform für Social-Media-Benchmarking und Social-Media-Analyse von gemeinnützigen Organisationen (NPOs), Politik, Kultur und Verwaltung.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Building relationships between government and citizens, and interested in how new technologies could enable better services, communication and accountability

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

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• Courses

The Digital Service Standard is a set of best-practice principles for designing and delivering government services. It helps digital teams to build services that are simple, clear and fast.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

International open government data specifications.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

Data Governance is an important component of enabling our mission because we believe that while the world needs better quality and more granular data to achieve its development goals, people’s rights must also be protected zealously. In partnership with Amnesty International, the Open Institute aims to bring together expertise in data for human rights and data for development towards strengthening data governance in Kenya and Africa as a whole

• Civic data
• Data governance

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Get funding

Supporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications

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• Build something

Organization working on strenghtening citizen participation by using technology for offering quality information on public administration. Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

ParleyVox was a way for governments, businesses and community builders everywhere to keep their finger on the pulse of what large groups of people are thinking

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

The New Media Index is an effort by PEJ to monitor the content appearing in new media platforms.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

• museums
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Future Cities Catapult has developed a City Data Sharing Toolkit. The toolkit includes tools, approaches and resources for local authorities sharing non-personal data.

• city
• toolkits
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

It tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.

• films
• free speech

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• Adjacent Fields

The Training Commission is a speculative fiction email newsletter about the compromises and consequences of using technology to reckon with collective trauma.

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• Newsletters

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Open Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A venture capital fund that identifies early-stage innovators solving our toughest urban challenges and provides them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued companies.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors