Civic Tech Field Guide
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The Polarization Lab
Duke University, Durham, NCThe Polarization Lab at Duke brings together scholars from the social sciences, statistics, and computer science to study how to bridge America’s partisan divide.
18F's Public Benefits Portfolio
1800 F St NW, Washington, DC 20006We partner with agencies to enable human-centered, digitally-assisted public benefits programs.
Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g
a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined
Snap Lenses teach users American Sign Language
Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CASnap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language
The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories
This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative
The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more
Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less
A free relational organizing technique informed by behavioral science; a lightweight relational organizing approach that reaches non-activists; a commit-to-vote replacement that doesn’t insult your supporters.
#defensiveTO
TorontoDocumenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
Africa No Filter
AfricaAfrica No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa.
New_ Public
Austin, TXNew_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.
Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.
White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.
Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information
Tifa Foundation is a grant-making organization that works to promote an open society by actively strengthening civil society in Indonesia.
Infrastructure Accessibility Index
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure
UNLOCK Accelerator
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪UNLOCK Accelerator by Wikimedia Deutschland We accelerate your ideas. Together we build the future of Free Knowledge.
This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
NYC City Scanner Pilot
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data
The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services
By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.
A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services
US GAO Innovation Lab
Washington, DCAt the Innovation Lab, an arm of the Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team at the Government Accountability Office, we’re using emerging technology to rethink analytics, auditing, and cybersecurity.
The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.
Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.
Team America
Afghanistan (Afġānistān / افغانستان) 🇦🇫An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.
Town+Gown
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.
Fair Maps beer
United States of America 🇺🇸The front of each can of Fair Maps IPA shows Wisconsin's state legislative and congressional districts prior to 2011, then the back reveals the drastic change in election maps after the last round of redistricting.
Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator.
Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.
WasteWorks
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.
The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising
A guide on how to manage technical debt in government software development projects.
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
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.
Civic Tech Forum
Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー
Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
Alloy
United States of America 🇺🇸Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.
In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector.
How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems
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