a novel about democracy in the age of algorithms

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Illinois Legal Aid Online presents legal resources and information about legal aid in a simple and accessible manner.

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My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

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Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

• COVID-19

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It provides an easy to use, do-it-yourself like, Participatory Budgeting platform capable of adapting to the best practices as well as local specificities.

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• Participatory budgeting tools

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

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• Smart Cities and sensors

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

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Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

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The Ability Programme exists to advocate for the rights of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as well as SDGs 10 and 11

This dataset is part of an ongoing effort to inventory each dataset in the City of KCMO.

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An online forum for community discussion

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People’s Press is a fictional community magazine exploring the use of digital social innovation in the year 2030

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Municipal Finance Data is a website tool which Municipal Money is built from.Current and historical Municipal budget and financial performance data from the National Treasury.

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.

• apps
• WhatsApp

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The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary events in the world.

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• Emerging Tech Report Conferences

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

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Measures for Justice is on a mission to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform.

• racial equity
• criminal justice

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• Open data publishing portals
• Civic literacy

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

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Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

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• Mapping
• Mapping platforms
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Online political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.

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A collaboration of government, nonprofits, and you to map all the trees of San Francisco's urban forest and understand the ecosystem services they provide.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

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Many communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board

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Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

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ID2020 is a global alliance committed to improving lives through digital identity.

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Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

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Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

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The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

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I'm Resistbot. Text RESIST to 50409 and I'll help you contact your officials.

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Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

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• Smart Cities and sensors

Looking to transform public services and influence government? Grab a desk and join the startups and civic servants driving the govtech revolution.

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Let’s work together on your broadband project.

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Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational

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• Media
• Games and gamification

CitySDK is a “service development kit” for cities and developers that aims at harmonizing application programming interfaces (APIs) across cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Data schemas and standards

Answering the Call, a leadership development experience designed to help service alumni explore their interest in potentially seeking political office.

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• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Harness the power of your social data.

• Media and social media analysis
• Organize campaigns

We’re launching nationwide, volunteer-led canvasses to organize our communities against Trump.

• Canvassing & Doorknocking

To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness

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PredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.

• crime

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Collaborating with progressive organizations and Democratic campaigns around the US to measure & increase the impact of their programs.

• partisan

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The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

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• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Budget explorers

A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• reports

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• Blockchain

Call to donate unused protective equipment

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• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

LawRato is an online platform which allows individuals and businesses to find lawyers and receive free legalinformation online.

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• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management

• Climate action

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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Mzalendo is a non-partisan entity that keeps an eye on Kenyan Parliament with a mission to facilitate public participation in Parliamentary processes through Information Sharing, Research and Networking.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Kevin Desouza and Kiran Somvanshi examine a recent blockchain pilot project in West Virginia as a model to make voting easier and more transparent.

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Vision, mission, and leadership of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles.

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