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

Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

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
• Adjacent Fields

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies

Citizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

Tech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley

• Decent work and economic growth
• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

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

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.

• city

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURS

• trainings

• The People
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• Courses

Learn how to run powerful campaigns this Autumn! Applications are due 9am on Tuesday 21 August.

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• Courses

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

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.

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• Courses

The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.

• The People
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• News and blogs

Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science

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• Courses

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

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• Courses

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

• rural

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Promptable helps students in further education (FE) to succeed in their courses by helping colleges to deliver a proven support programme to their students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• Innovation teams and labs
• Courses
• Playbooks and design principles

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Journalism

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

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• Courses

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Dominion makes data available to help add context and authority to public discourse and policy-making on vital issues of land ownership.

• land
• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Open civic data

a modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists announced an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies political discourse on the Web.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard