Georgia Berry, Communications Officer for GVEP International, reports back on the Partner workshops. Launching a new programme of activities in East Africa, GVEP International Team members were in Uganda and Kampala in March to meet with some GVEP

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• Accelerators

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census
• United States (federal government)

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• Media

What are the trends most impacting how campaigns create change in 2018? Bots. Decentralised campaigns. Facebook's ever-changing mood (and algorithm). MobLab and its network look at campaign trends in 2018.

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• Meet the others
• Graveyard

10 tips to help hiring managers recruit employees

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• Find a job or hire someone

At TargetSmart, we make data better every day. And making better data helps our clients make the right decisions, define their audiences more intelligently, and communicate in a more impactful and cost-effective way.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

We’re tracking the progress of 60 pledges Trump made in his “Contract with the American Voter” – and whether he achieved his goals.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Using software, policy and data to empower activists and end oppression

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Govtech vendors

How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions

WHAT WORKS CITIES CERTIFICATION IS THE NATIONAL STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR WELL-MANAGED, DATA-DRIVEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

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• Evaluate impact
• Certifications

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• city
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Find great local banks and invest in growing your community. Our interactive map and bank report cards arm you with knowledge you need to make the right choice.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Build With is a training, facilitation, and consulting practice led by Laurenellen McCann.

• trainings
• workshops

• Civic and social impact companies
• Co-design

a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

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• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Data map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Maldita.es presenta la primera aplicación móvil capaz de avisarte cuando entras en una web con desinformación // a mobile application to fight against misinformation and promote transparency through the confirmation of facts and journalistic techniques

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Civic literacy

On August 11th, 2018, join the Code for America Brigades as we host a nationwide day of action.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We hope the project will arm activists, advocates, journalists, policy makers, and elected officials with relevant, timely information about how government functions—so we can fix it when it doesn’t.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic tech catalogs
• Find a job or hire someone

DataViva is opening up data for the entire formal sector of the Brazilian economy through more than 1 billion interactive visualizations.

• The Tech
• Data visualization

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware

Empoweringdisplaced personswith technologyOUR ACTIONS INNOVATIONWe support and help the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world since 2015.

• refugees

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

Platform for Lithuanian citizens to seek advise on reporting corruption or dealing with corruption, enhanced with an interactive map.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

Enigma is an operational data management and intelligence company. We place data into the context of the real world and make it connected, open, and actionable.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic and social impact companies

by Hollie Russon Gilman. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation.

• books

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• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory budgeting

The Ministry of Health (MISAU), in fulfilling its mandate to provide health services to all Mozambicans, has drawn up the Strategic Health Sector Plan (PESS) 2014-2019 with a view to “helping all Mozambicans, especially target groups vulnerable, to enjoy the best possible health, at an affordable cost

• Access social benefits

CrowdJustice is a crowdfunding platform that enables individuals, groups and communities to come together to fund legal action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

We have created and collected guidance to support accurate and responsible reporting on coronavirus, which will be regularly updated with new information.

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Nyaaya’s platform provides comprehensive information on various legal topics in an accessible and simple language,covering aspects of the law that the public interact with in their daily lives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Create better, more engaging, community atmospheres for your team. Interact with charities, launch events and engage with your employees like never before.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Over the course of a year and several public information act requests, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and January Advisors assembled over a million criminal court dispositions throughout Harris County.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Learn about civic tech

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Fellowships

Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

• racial equity

• The People
• Campaign organizations

Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy