80,000 PEOPLE. U STREET. SATURDAY, MAY 12 Funk Parade is a one-of-a-kind day fair, parade and music festival, celebrating Washington DC's vibrant music and arts, the U Street neighborhood, and the Spirit of Funk that brings us all together.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

We’re excited to share our second annual list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.

• lists

• Awards and prizes

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

• The People
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• Defining the field

It reflects the discussions and proposals of dozens of people and collectives involved in the Digital Democracy and Data Commons participatory process.

• manifestos

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Welcome to the Ford Foundation. We envision a just, fair, and peaceful world with opportunity for all

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• Funders & donors

To collaborate with government clients to understand the problem space and develop real solutions.

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• Courses

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.

• mass transit
• mobility

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Engagement platform by the City of Athens

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

It has played an essential role in achieving the United Nations global goals for social, economic and environmental sustainability.

• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.

• The People
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• News and blogs

MEST Africa is an entrepreneurial training program, seed fund and incubator for African tech startups, headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Loomio helps groups of people make decisions together, online

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Jsme komunita špičkových vývojářů, designérů a produkťáků, kteří chtějí ve svém volném čase pomáhat státu i nestátním organizacím a dělat tak Česko lepším místem k životu.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something

A database of projects and organizations dedicated to fighting COVID-19

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

• trainings

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

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• Funders & donors

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

An online forum for community discussion

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The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Citizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.

• youth

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.

• opioids

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

• The People
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• Research and policy centers

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation provides education, scholarships, exhibits, events, and media related to the lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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• Funders & donors

What effect does bureaucratic responsiveness have on citizen participation?

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

CityCamp Oakland. 211 likes. CityCamp Oakland is brought to you by OpenOakland

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• In-person meetings

Training and empowering young people to help them run for office

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.

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• News and blogs

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.

• The People
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• Research and policy centers

Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home

• social isolation

• The People
• Help out
• COVID

Code for Boston addresses local social and civic challenges through creative uses of technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world

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• Funders & donors

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Expanding opportunities in America’s cities

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• Funders & donors

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency