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The People Act
Manchester, United KingdomA hub for legislative theatre and creative civic practice.
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)
Guimarães, PortugalIt was conceived in 2007 as an annual gathering to bring together academia, governments, international organisations, civil society, and industry to share the latest insights and experiences in the theory and practice of Electronic Governance (now more commonly referred to as Digital Governance).
Open access book by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero
Pacto pela Democracia
Brazil (Brasil)Pacto pela Democracia é uma coalizão da sociedade civil que coordena os esforços de atores sociais em todo o espectro ideológico para aumentar a capacidade da sociedade civil de defender e revigorar a democracia no Brasil.
The OIDP Distinction is your opportunity to showcase your work for a more inclusive and diverse participatory democracy on an international level! Be part of it!
The OASI Register compiles information about algorithms with the aim of increasing public awareness and providing the necessary knowledge for an informed public conversation, and of making possible for experts and the public to search and analyse the use and social impact of algorithmic systems across the world.
X-Ray Bad Redaction Detector
Oakland, CaliforniaX-Ray is a fast and robust tool to identify bad redactions in PDF files.
Eyecite Citation Extractor
Oakland, CaliforniaEyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.
Impact Seed
PerthImpact Seed is a Perth based social enterprise catalysing business and investment to support communities, environment and culture to thrive, sustainably.
"Importantly, people experiencing distress are more likely to engage in collective action on climate change or express a willingness to do so, even when controlling for several correlates of environmental behavior"
دليل الأمن الرقمي للنشطاء في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا (Digital Security Guide for Activists in the Middle East and North Africa)
Middle East and North Africaقامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)
Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.
Transversal Design for Social Impact
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.
We estimate that UK central government conducts approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions per year in the provision of around 400 services, of which approximately 143 million are complex repetitive transactions. We estimate that 84% of these complex transactions are highly automatable.
"According to a release from the lawmakers, the legislation would “create a pathway for independent evaluators, with a function similar to those in the financial industry and other sectors, to work with companies as a neutral third-party to verify their development, testing, and use of AI is in compliance with established guardrails.”"
maze impact
LisbonWe are an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.
Where great talent finds impact jobs
The introduction of new technology and technological services worldwide has ushered in a new wave of peer-to-peer and access-driven companies that are disrupting the most established business categories.
Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, and social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory and empowerment practice
Authors Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst, both with The GovLab at New York University, explain how these projects have made governments more accountable and efficient, helped policymakers find solutions to previously intractable public ...
The Activists' Handbook is a powerful guide to social change activism and an essential resource for anyone ready to make a difference.
This book shows you how analytics can be implemented in your own milieu: What is the downstream impact of new legislation? How can we make programs more efficient? Is it possible to predict policy outcomes without analytics?
As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city.
This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements, the movements who ‘see their everyday experiences and creations as the revolution they are making’, together with these movements and in taking the diversity of their ...
This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education ...
Taking Action Online for the environment, social justice and sustainable development connects the many dots in the social media universe and provides step-by-step advice on how to raise funds, build communities and inspire action for the results we need to create the world we want
It is for these reasons that this is a worthwhile topic to be examined in this paper: What impact has the digital revolution of the German Pirate Party on direct democracy in Germany and how does it affect the transparency of an ...
Social media allows people to stay connected and share news quickly. How Social Media Impacts News examines the benefits of spreading news fast, but it also highlights the dangers of incomplete or fake stories going viral on social media.
Why are some civic associations better than others at getting - and keeping - people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares organizations with strong records of engaging people in health and environmental politics to those with weaker records. To build power, civic associations need quality and quantity (or depth and breadth) of activism. They need lots of people to take action and also a cadre of leaders to develop and execute that activity. Yet, models for how to develop activists and leaders are not necessarily transparent. This book provides these models to help associations build the power they want and support a healthy democracy. In particular, the book examines organizing, mobilizing, and lone wolf models of engagement and shows how highly active associations blend mobilizing and organizing to transform their members' motivations and capacities for involvement. This is not a simple story about the power of offline versus online organizing. Instead, it is a story about how associations can blend both online and offline strategies to build their activist base. In this compelling book, Hahrie Han explains how civic associations can invest in their members and build the capacity they need to inspire action.
Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice cuts across this debate by clarifying the structure of a deliberative democratic system, and goes on to re-evaluate the main empirical challenges to deliberative democracy in light of this
Covering topics such as digital democracy, data extraction techniques, and political communications, this book is an essential resource for data analysts, politicians, journalists, public figures, executives, researchers, data specialists, ...
The book provides a practical and step-by-step guide that will help young people learn to identify their social action passions and plan, launch, and support social action initiatives.
This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available
This book contributes to this endeavour by bringing together cutting edge research on the theory and practice of deliberative systems
This book combines theoretical and practical knowledge about key actors and driving forces that help to initiate and advance open data governance.
Highlighting a wide range of topics including community inclusion, cultural innovation, and public safety, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, entrepreneurs, engineers, government officials, policymakers, academicians, ...
This second edition examines new strategies, tactics, issues, and grassroots campaigns, and revisits whether activists have learned from past mistakes.
For those looking to organize for the first time or for seasoned activists looking to update their repertoire, the time is ripe for a playbook like Becoming a Citizen Activist.
Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in solving social problems at the community, state, and national levels.
Governments have an opportunity to harness big data solutions to improve productivity, performance and innovation in service delivery and policymaking processes.
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