Civic Tech Field Guide
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Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams
[A] "team consisting of researchers and engineers that will...Implement a system for collecting and encoding public input on model behavior into our systems"
Orbis Project
MilanAugmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales
Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAMeta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method
Democracy Capital
OregonAdvising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)
Can I Vote?
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This is a joint initiative run by Citizens UK, Migrant Democracy Project and Just Register. Together we are helping migrants in the UK to get registered to vote.
Just Register
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Our assisted [UK] voter registration programme Just Register supports people to get onto the electoral roll. It addresses the practical barriers that we know hinder people from getting registered in a timely way. After signing up on Just Register, everyone is signposted to the gov.uk form. From this point, they receive personalised support via peer-to-peer texting and calls to make sure they follow-through completing their registration with their council.
Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign
Brown UniversityCNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector about root causes, incidents and threats, as well as sharing experience, knowledge and analysis. In many EU Member States, ISAC or similar initiatives exist.
Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation
e-Governance Academy
TallinnThe e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.
Alliance4Europe
EuropeWe support groups of actors to come together to cooperate. Then we develop the effective digital tools for impact. Then, we roll out campaigns for impact with those communities.
The Open Gov Challenge
Washington, DCThe Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.
Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.
Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend democracy.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.
Panoramic
FranceOur platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.
SoJo Europe
EuropeThis grant programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.
Sidekick
Kansas City, MOIn plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library.
Election Hackspace 2024
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKA coworking space for all people working on tech related to the upcoming [UK] general election. Both partisan & non-partisan projects welcome!
ConvertKit helps 600k+ creators like you work smarter – not harder – with email, automation, and monetization tools that work together to drive continuous growth.
A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF
The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.
There have been over 40 recent bans of the rainbow flag. The Gilbert Baker Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Are Fighting Back.
Webby-award winning social video by the US Holocaust Museum
We leverage remote sensing technology to detect, pinpoint, and quantify methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the scale of individual facilities.
Helpful Places
TorontoHelpful Places is a mission-driven company that helps organizations, and the communities they serve, harness the power of technology in ways that are transparent, inclusive, participatory, and in alignment with the community's goals.
Rally (Relentless)
United States of America (the)Rally was built by organizers, for organizers, specifically to measure and scale relational programs.
KIKI, Virtual Human Interpreter
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)The world's first text-to-sign interpreter for emergency alerts
Missing Matoaka
CanadaThe true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.
The First Digital Nation
TuvaluAn award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels
National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Columbus, OH, USANational Digital Inclusion Alliance advances digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.
A podcast bringing you one degree closer to nonprofits making an impact in the world.
History-making profits. World-ending emissions.
Inside The Newsroom is home to the largest curated journalism jobs board and calendar in the world.
Webby-award winning social video promoting women's ability to choose
"Governor Barbie" social campaign
Michigan, USAThe "Governor Barbie" campaign, launched by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was more than just an innovative approach to brand building, but a significant step toward redefining and challenging stereotypes associated with female politicians.
ChildFund International campaign to remove online child abuse material
Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.
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