Demonstrate using DuckDuckGo’s “!ducky” bang shortcut to redirect immediately to the first search result for “YouTown”

Highlights from legislative theatre events in 2020 with GM Homelessness Action Network, the GM Combined Authority, and GM Housing First.

• housing
• homelessness

• Legislative theater

• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Over the summer and autumn of 2021, we tackled the climate crisis through an intensive legislative theatre project led by young people.

• Legislative theater

We provide data, insights, and tools for social impact organizations

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign messaging

The Complete Patriot’s Guide series unpacks American myths, icons, and traditions to reveal their civic DNA.

• culture

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

The Sworn-Again America Oath helps us recommit to being useful to our community and our country.

• Citizen Engagement

Recruit more volunteers & build lasting relationships with VOMO’s responsive volunteer management software.

• Manage volunteers

Civic Nebraska's Tool to Reflect Overall Voter Engagement represents the total number of ballots cast out of the total number of registered Nebraska voters in the general election.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

• Citizen Engagement

Civic Saturdays are an antidote to this feeling of apathy and despair. Friends and strangers connect around the values and practices of being an active citizen, reckoning with our nation’s creed, building relationships, and creating new civic traditions that are joyful and communal.

• local

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Every year, Civic Nebraska honors individuals and organizations across the state who go above and beyond to build a more modern and robust democracy. These aren’t celebrities or elected officials (although we tip our hats to the good ones). They’re the everyday heroes, the tireless advocates, passionate educators, committed organizers, and behind-the-scenes changemakers who make our communities more connected, inclusive, and civically healthy.

• Awards and prizes
• Democracy organizations

Shifting the current paradigm of individual achievement towards collaboration and shared success.

• Democratic Innovations

2025 edition

• Advocacy tech
• Legislation trackers

We support individuals and communities to engage authentically and relationally with others who are different.

• Citizen Engagement
• Polarization

The Connecticut Democracy Center's award-winning civic education program.

• youth

• Civic literacy

The Nebraska Journalism Trust is Nebraska’s first and only statewide, independent, nonprofit news organization.

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Wear the fight for Justice and Opportunity for All Nebraskans

• Civic tech gifts

Over the course of a few years, Citizen University supported nearly 60 projects in eight cities around the country that served as examples of what interactive, inclusive, and joyful elections can look like.

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

Virtuous is fueling a new generation of courageous nonprofit teams to connect with donors, save time, and grow giving like never before.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Civic Nebraska creates a more modern and robust democracy for all Nebraskans.

• youth
• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Citizen Engagement
• Democracy organizations

Civic Nebraska is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that focuses on creating a modern and robust democracy for all Nebraskans.

• Civic tech gifts

Helping you practice relational, relevant, and sustainable citizenship.

• Participatory democracy
• In-person meetings
• Artistic interventions

WE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL NEBRASKANS

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Welcome to SparkBlue, a platform for development practitioners to exchange knowledge, share expertise, engage with peers, and help shape a knowledge base to drive solutions for sustainable development.

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Online forums
• Economic development
• Knowledgebase platforms

The DPIA process aims at providing assurance that controllers adequately address privacy and data protection risks of ‘risky’ processing operations.

• Digital security and privacy
• Regulation
• Data rights

responsible experimentation, real-world impact

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This study examines 51 Freedom of Information requests to reveal how the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions uses opaque data-driven fraud detection systems in welfare, highlighting the limited transparency, the role of journalists and charities in uncovering details, and inconsistencies in the department’s disclosures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Access social benefits

This paper argues that automated decision-making in UK public administration lacks adequate scrutiny, and proposes regulatory safeguards through mandatory pre-deployment impact assessments and algorithmic auditing to strengthen accountability in Parliament and the courts.

• Govtech
• Academia
• Evaluate impact

Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence, in collaboration with the UK government’s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, has trialled an approach to involve the public in assessing AI tools for public services.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS) establishes a standardised way for public sector organisations to publish information about how and why they are using algorithmic tools.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Regulation

City council meeting scraping and agenda packet summarization, for the whole country

• Watchdogging government

Patio is a network comprising tech cooperatives, from all corners of the globe, working together in solidarity to democratize the tech sector.

• coop

• Build something
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civic apps outfits