The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.
The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods
Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.
SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.
The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.
Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.
Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact
The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.
The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)
Civic tech projects can aim at changing citizen’s behaviours. Zlato from South Africa is a digital platform which rewards positive behaviour inside communities thanks to a digital currency which can be used to purchase local products, from clothes to haircuts.
Crowdin is a localization project management platfom and translation tool for developers and website owners. We make it easy to work with content being translated using our collaboration platform.
Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”
Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.
Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.
How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions
This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.
Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.
A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.
We have created and collected guidance to support accurate and responsible reporting on coronavirus, which will be regularly updated with new information.
Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United States
A new initiative from the Tech Talent Project and AnitaB.org to bring 10,000 technologists into the public sector across state, local, and federal government by the end of 2021