A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Meet the others

We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

This year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

Building World-Positive Companies

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Conferences

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative reporters.

• Journalism
• Conferences

A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is an annual gathering expressly designed to equip creators of popular culture - including writers, artists, producers, and executives - for the year ahead.

The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology.

• Conferences
• Find a job or hire someone

An international effort to empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust.

• Digital security and privacy
• Holidays
• Data rights

18 - 20 November 2019 in Rotterdam

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation & technology

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Civic data
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

To learning about current projects and initiatives and brainstorm practical applications or recommendations related to topics.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Mapbox's first event celebrating and exploring the connectedness of the world around us. #explorelocate

• Conferences
• Mapping

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Cities, Government & Politics track focuses on innovative city planning and development, privacy and policy issues, and how politics plays a role in shaping policy in government.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

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.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

On May 8th, fifty urban planners, data scientists, and civic hackers came together for the Department of City Planning’s first data jam!

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Past event at the Aspen Institute in DC

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

• The Tech
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

we are what we create together

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Join us in celebrating the launch of City Science Summit, where urban planners, industry leaders, and researchers come together to create a vibrant network o...

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Asia's First Ever Civic Technology Festival with a week-long Collection of Events.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

December 11-13 2020

• racial equity

• Conferences
• Data science for social good

The 5th Edition of the Collective Intelligence Conference CI is the fifth annual interdisciplinary conference dedicated to advancing our understanding of collective intelligence and the workings of groups.

• Conferences
• Collective intelligence

The conference will connect leaders and practitioners to explore how non-profits are adapting and excelling in an increasingly data-driven world.

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Designing for change, delivering for the future

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

November 14th: A holiday invented to encourage more people to run for local elected office

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Holidays

Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gesellschaft.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Services week is a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Conferences
• Peer networks
• Building inside government

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• partisan

• Conferences

We are really looking forward to welcoming cities from across Europe to share insights and ideas for tackling the challenges facing our cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

ProPublica is proud to announce the 2017 Data Institute, a 11-day intensive workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism. The workshop will be from June 7 to June 21 in our NYC offices.

• workshops

• Workshops

Code for All Global Summit

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Newsgeist is a gathering of practitioners and thinkers from the worlds of journalism, technology, and public policy who are re-imagining the future of the news.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Each hackathon will challenge young tech developers to identify prototype solutions to challenges in Ethiopia.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

NYC’s best public interest tech + open data event of the year — NYC School of Data!

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others