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Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Somerville, MAThe Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) supports the development and production of independent news reporting in Massachusetts. BINJ provides organizational support to community publications, runs reporting collaborations and civic engagement initiatives, trains new and early-career journalists, and produces bold, independent journalism.
El Comercio de Colorado
Denver, COEl Comercio de Colorado is a bilingual multi-media organization targeting the growing Hispanic/Latinx community in Colorado since 2006. El Comercio’s goal is to empower the Hispanic/Latinx community through information, engagement, and advocacy.
South Dakota News Watch
Sioux Falls, SDSouth Dakota News Watch is an independent nonprofit organization reporting untold stories that help South Dakotans be informed and engaged citizens. South Dakota News Watch produces investigative and public service journalism that sheds light on the issues, concerns, and welfare of South Dakotans.
KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio
Paonia, COKVNF engages its communities by providing access to diverse music, news, and voices, envisioning listeners who are participating, inspired, active, and well-informed with a local and global perspective that emphasizes journalistic integrity.
Athens County Independent
Athens, OHThe Athens County Independent empowers community engagement through accessible public service journalism.
West Texas Tribune
Abilene, TXThe West Texas Tribune informs and engages the citizens of Abilene and surrounding communities by providing fair, factual, and reliable in-depth news stories about local government, institutions, nonprofit institutions, issues, and people. Its nonprofit journalism amplifies voices in divested neighborhoods and explores solutions for those seeking social, economic, and criminal justice and racial equity.
News Letter Journal
Newcastle, WYNews Letter Journal covers the news, sports, and entertainment important to the people of Weston County, Wyo., and provides them with the information they need to be active and engaged citizens.
BirminghamWatch
Birmingham, ALBirminghamWatch serves the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a positive impact and encourages citizen engagement with fair, factual, unflinching, and focused news.
Project Optimist
Saint Michael, MNProject Optimist engages residents of greater Minnesota to help them collaborate across common divides, tackle seemingly intractable problems, and grow more optimistic about the future of their communities, region, and world by tapping Minnesota’s creative and independent talent to produce solution-focused stories and local art to inform and inspire.
The River Reporter
Narrowsburg, NYThe River Reporter provides accurate and important community news and sponsors local forums and creative conversations, events, and initiatives (in collaboration with local organizations) to enhance the quality of life and increase civic engagement in the communities of the Upper Delaware River Valley
Pine Knot News
Cloquet, MNPine Knot News provides verified coverage of the news, issues, sports, events, and faces of Carlton County, Minnesota, to help create an engaged and educated citizenry while also fulfilling a watchdog role for the area.
El Informador Newspaper
Mount Pleasant, SCEl Informador Newspaper informs, engages, and empowers the Latino community in South Carolina through journalism that is trustworthy, accurate, culturally resonant, and impactful.
Black Voice News
Riverside, CAPublishing in the spirit of the Black Press, the Black Voice News mantra, since its founding over 50 years ago, is “justice seeking reporting.” Its mission is to inform, engage, and empower its community with information while amplifying the voices of the Black community in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
"Importantly, people experiencing distress are more likely to engage in collective action on climate change or express a willingness to do so, even when controlling for several correlates of environmental behavior"
The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)
MOXY
Washington, DCA Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations
ForHumanity
New York, USATo examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI & Automation, to engage in risk mitigation and ensure the optimal outcome… ForHumanity.
Operation Black Vote
LondonWe are on a mission to amplify Black* voices and ensure our complete engagement in the national debate about how to build a better Britain founded on accessible citizenship, judicial rights, climate and racial justice, equality, and fairness.
America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map
Washington, DCOur goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive resource that educates and empowers users to engage in democracy.
Public Hubs (PubHubs)
Nijmegen, NetherlandsA public-owned social network for public institutions (municipalities, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, etc) to engage communities without using Big Tech, and instead using infrastructure based on public values
Localwatch
AthensCivic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του
Plaza Cívica
PeruWe empower communities to actively engage with their governments in decision-making through technology, design, communication, and research, driving better public services and enhancing citizen participation in governance.
The World Bank's program to "support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice."
GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI)
Washington, DCThe GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of GovTech maturity in four focus areas — supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers— and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.
US Open Government Federal Advisory Committee
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThey will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives.
YoMobi
Johannesburg, South AfricaYoMobi is a digital platform cooperative that empowers youth organisations by providing tools for skill development, learning, and community engagement to tackle youth unemployment and enhance socio-economic inclusion.
Civic Echo
Geneva, SwitzerlandCivic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.
Stump
Boulder, COStump is a non-partisan tool for empowering voters to participate in democracy in a real-time, social, and impactful way.
Instituto Cidade Democrática
São PauloCivil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.
Empurrando Juntas
São PauloFree tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.
Talent Toolkit
United States of America (the)To...help governments hire more effectively, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) has actively engaged government organizations at the state, county, and city levels to optimize their talent practices and build digital capacity — and we’ve learned some things.
The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!
DEMOCRACY X
Denmark (Danmark)In 2023, the Danish Board of Technology and ParticipationDenmark merged. We are now called DEMOCRACY X, with a focus on technology, society and sustainability.
Tella
GlobalTella is a mobile tool designed for activists, human rights defenders, and journalists facing high levels of repression and surveillance. With Tella, users can seamlessly hide and encrypt sensitive material in a secure container on their mobile device and securely send this material to the servers of the organization or partner they're working with.
Poliquicks
DelawareNonpartisan political education app.
African Union Civic Tech Fund (AUCTF)
Johannesburg, South AfricaThe African Union Civic Tech Fund supports initiatives, particularly those led by or relevant to youth, that strengthen citizen engagement through the innovative use of data and digital technologies, or, in other words, that can support targeted civic technology solutions.
This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale disengagement from the system by the public.
Our best-performing model can potentially help TSU find 59% more buildings where tenants face landlord harassment than the current outreach method using the same resources.
Political equality as the foundation of democracy -- Opening political doors -- For richer or poorer, politically speaking -- Civil society mobilizing action -- Age, generations, and participation -- What's a good citizen to do? -- The special case of online activism -- Contextual and inequality / Russell J
MyPolis
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Creating space to build a democracy for all
deliberAIde
BerlinWe are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all its varied forms, investigates a wide range of topics in the field from both a theoretical and methodological perspective, and covers the most recent developments in the area
This is an essential guide for government employees, scholars, and regular citizens who want to make government work more effectively and democratically in the digital age.
PRAISE FOR SMART CITIES, SMART FUTURE "Mike and Cornelia have managed to distill hundreds of ideas, sources, milestones, technologies and dreams into a thoughtful 'showcase of tomorrow'. . . their analysis, synthesis and narrative make this ...
This book argues that ethical evaluation of AI should be an integral part of public service ethics and that an effective normative framework is needed to provide ethical principles and evaluation for decision-making in the public sphere, at both local and international levels
The book revolves around recent developments in specific scientific disciplines, including biology, ecology, computer science, astronomy, and cognitive science.
The powerful potential of digital media to engage citizens in political actions has now crossed our news screens many times
Democracy Fitness
EuropeWith Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!
This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes.
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