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MosaicLab
Melbourne VIC, Australiawe’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement
This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions: is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional forms of the media? has the Internet demonstrated real
This insightful book explores the citizen-government relation, as mediated through artificial intelligence (AI).
This timely book brings together key thinkers and projects from a wide range of fields and perspectives into one volume to provide a valuable resource that would enable the reader to take their own critical position within the topic.
However, this book also shows that citizens can become disappointed by the little decision-making power they are granted, as they leave the process often more cynical than before.
Governments have an opportunity to harness big data solutions to improve productivity, performance and innovation in service delivery and policymaking processes.
In community citizen science, laypeople control research, working with professional scientists and performing research on their own. This report describes its potential uses, implementation needs and challenges, and ways to effect change.
This book examines the increasing popularity of online citizen science projects arising from developments in ICT and rapid improvements in data storage and generation.
Towards Empirical Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective
Packed with practical classroom resources, examples from popular culture, and engaging insights into the CIA analyst role, this book is designed to support middle and high school teachers with news and media literacy in social studies, ...
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, ...
Institutional inertia, nevertheless, causes large delays in updating and adapting
Yet, the growing role of social media in everyday life has raised challenging questions about privacy, advertising, and the effect on young people that are addressed in this book.
Working with Data in the Public Sector: From Fear to Enthusiasm is the first book designed for practicing and future public administration professionals to help overcome any anxiety about using data effectively in their roles.
Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents.
This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement.
Data and Society: A Critical Introduction investigates the growing importance of data as a technological, social, economic and scientific resource.
This book combines theoretical and practical knowledge about key actors and driving forces that help to initiate and advance open data governance.
This book delves into the effects of technology on the delivery of services to all of us who pay the taxes.
I love this book! At a time in which activism must urgently rise to be a much more effective tool for systems change, Mueller gives us a deeply researched yet practical reference book to methodically take activism from passion to impact
Meanwhile, citizens may find themselves labelled as `ignorant' in environmental matters. In Citizen Science Alan Irwin provides a much needed route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat.
The Measurement Guide helps governments, civil society, and researchers to understand how to assess open data activities based on the Open Data Charter (the 'Charter') principles.
The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how open data is implemented worldwide.
This timely reader provides an anthology of the literature on social movements, including the key texts relating to the notions of conflict, social change and collective action.
The handbook has been used by Midwest Academy since 1973 in its organizing and activism seminars
Informed by a comparative case study approach, this book seeks to narrow that gap and offer practical policy solutions to facilitate local e-government.
In Democracy 2.0, we feature a series of evocative, international case studies that document the impact of alternative and community use of media, in general, and Web 2.0 in particular.
This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world.
This book offers conceptual frameworks, theoretical insights, and practical lessons for dealing with the problem
Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide
We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.
Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."
Official Reddit account to help you Up The Vote. Learn how to get registered, understand voting options and deadlines, and make your voice count.
CTCL is thrilled to launch a nonpartisan grant program to help rural and nonmetro election jurisdictions ensure reliable and secure elections consistent with applicable law.
This is a non-partisan guide made to help new [UK] MPs & their staff establish and run their offices after the 2024 election.
The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.
ADISI - CAMEROUN
Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.
Weibo Community Notes feature (社区“附注”功能上)
China (Zhong Guo)Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.
By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI
有据 (China Fact Check)
China (Zhong Guo)China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news
Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy.
10x
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA10x is the federal government’s very own venture studio
UGhub
UgandaNITA-U is integrating all MDA systems to the UGhub Systems Integration Platform so as to enable seamlessly sharing of data across Government systems in a rational, secure, efficient and sustainable manner.
Project Oasis is a research effort to map independent digital media organizations, news creators and publishers-in-exile across 68 countries.
AgriStack
India (Bhārat)Agri Stack is the digital foundation being set up by the government to make it easier to bring various stakeholders together to improve agriculture in India and enable better outcomes and results for the farmers by using data and digital services.
Digital Development
Washington, DCThe knowledge hub for digital development
California's DMV has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology to detect fraud and streamline the title transfer process, enabling residents to claim vehicle titles through a mobile app -- the first such initiative in the U.S.
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