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Earth Observation for Disaster Risk Management
What happens when you mix technology with the strategic board game of Risk? For those unfamiliar with the game, the basis is world domination. Players roll dice and place tiny plastic soldiers and […]
Ciudatos
Calle 70 # 7-30 Bogotá, ColombiaNavega y explora el mundo de los datos abiertos de las ciudades colombianas
Forum Jurisprudence – Forum Bundesgericht (Switzerland) and Forum Bundesgerichtshof (Germany)
Regensbergstrasse 182, Zürich, Schweiz„Forum Bundesgerichtshof“ ist eine private, politisch und konfessionell unabhängige Webseite, die es interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ermöglicht, alle Urteile des deutschen Bundesgerichtshofs öffentlich zu analysieren, zu kommentieren und darüber zu debattieren.
Local STEM Database
Hayward, CAA crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
Go Code Colorado
ColoradoGo Code Colorado is a statewide apps challenge to bring developers and entrepreneurs together to build better business apps with public data.
The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.
The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
Vulcan is developing solutions to address some of the world’s toughest challenges – from protecting Africa’s elephants to bringing reliable power and connectivity to underserved areas.
When We All Vote
United States of America 🇺🇸It's time to make your plan to vote together with your squad!
Vision Zero Portland map
Portland, ORThis story map was created with the Story Map Series application in ArcGIS Online.
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.
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.
Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.
Open source monitoring for understanding energy
The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.
Pluragraph
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪Plattform für Social-Media-Benchmarking und Social-Media-Analyse von gemeinnützigen Organisationen (NPOs), Politik, Kultur und Verwaltung.
Civic Tech Innovation Forum in South Africa
41 Juta St, Johannesburg, 2000, South AfricaBuilding relationships between government and citizens, and interested in how new technologies could enable better services, communication and accountability
I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi
Australia's Digital Service Standard
50 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra ACT, AustraliaThe 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.
Million Dollar Blocks
ChicagoIllinois 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.
GovTech Singapore Digital Government Blueprint
Singapore 🇸🇬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.
A man awakens from a coma and speaks a fully-developed but unknowable language that baffles linguists from all over the world.
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.
OpenPaths
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NYOpenPaths, a secure datastore for personal location info.
DecidimFest
BarcelonaDecidimFest 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.
The Free Speech Project
3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057The 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.
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.
Horizon 2020
EuropeHorizon 2020 was the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020)
The 2016 ONA Conference & Awards Banquet, Sept. 15-17
Javna Rasprava
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦Web platform for direct public participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina lawmaking, hosting public consultations and Q&A with parliamentarians, run by NGO U.G. "Zašto ne"
The Hackable City (Netherlands)
AmsterdamThe Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.
Découvrez We Sign It, la plateforme de création de pétitions en ligne. Wesign.it vous permet en quelques clics seulement de lancer votre pétition, de faire campagne et de mobiliser autour de vous.
DoSomething.org
DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NYLargest organization for social change volunteers and community service, with 6,000,000 members and counting.
Engineers without Borders Canada
Canada 🇨🇦EWB Canada is a vibrant community of professionals and students working to eliminate poverty by fostering innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Canada and around the world.
TerriData
Colombia 🇨🇴Open Data for indicators and information regarding Colombian land and territory.
I’ve been working on organizing some departmental knowledge at CMS, and our human-centered design team – the crew that promotes design thinking and helps other teams build better, more user-focused products and processes1 – recommended that my first step be to get teams to make directories.
Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.
CoBudget
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Cobudget makes it easy for organizations and groups to allocate funds collaboratively and transparently.
Outline VPN offered in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.
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