A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

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The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

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We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

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Based at the General Services Administration (GSA), OES is a team of interdisciplinary experts that works across government to help agencies build and use evidence.

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In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

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Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

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The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

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Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation is devoted to developing a brighter future for millions of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes.

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Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.

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Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages

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Expanding Training on Data and Technology to Improve Communities

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As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

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Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.

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The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.

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The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

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Responsible Innovation COMPASS is an EU-funded project that supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from emerging technology industries to manage their research, development and innovation activities in a responsible and inclusive manner.

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Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.

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A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

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Format for exchanging static public transit information.

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Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.

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For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

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The Humanitarian Information Dashboard (HID) tracks and analyzes community views and humanitarian related data during emergencies.

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The Cleveland Foundation’s mission is to enhance the lives of all residents of Greater Cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

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Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies

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CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation is a new organisation whose mission is to manage and continuously develop the largest open source digital democracy platform – CONSUL.

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Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

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Organizations in Western New York and Southeast Michigan within our four core funding areas are now welcome to apply through our online process.

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Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

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This tool will help you to compare official statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping across the UK, with information provided on each of the four countries.

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სახელმწიფო სერვისების განვითარების სააგენტოში, გაეროს განვითარების პროგრამის მხარდაჭერით, შეიქმნა „ინოვაციური სერვისების ლაბორატორია“, რომელიც სახელმწიფო და კერძო სექტორში წარმოდგენილ ორგანიზაციებს ეხმარება ახალი, თანამედროვე და ინოვაციური სერვისების შემუშავებასა და დანერგვაში.

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The Foundation for Inclusion is the world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges

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Individuals, students, entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia, private companies, nonprofits and public sector agencies from member countries of the World Bank Group shared innovative solutions and ideas for tackling real-world, actionable climate challenges.

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The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

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HSDS is designed to support the publication of open, interoperable community resource directory data.

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The Greater Washington Community Foundation works to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our community

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Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.

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Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots

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an action research laboratory

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The European Social Innovation Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all European countries

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File, track, and share public records requests.

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