The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy.

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• News and blogs

The Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.

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• Competitions

We help governments, organizations and companies understand and navigate the increasingly complex urban landscape, and work together to create a sustainable and executable vision for the future, fast.

• Social impact design firms

My Country Talks matches political opposites for 1:1 conversations

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• Filter bubble poppers

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.

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• Tech for public challenges
• Platform coops

Great America PAC is committed to bringing people together

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• Official campaign apps

Governments around the world spend an estimated US$13 trillion through contracts every year. Yet, contracting information is often unavailable for public scrutiny.

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• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

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• Pro bono and volunteer

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

g0v HK's Anti-extradition campaign

• Hong Kong protests

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Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

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• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

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• Media
• Fight disinformation

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

The world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.

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Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

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Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Govtech

The Ability Programme exists to advocate for the rights of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as well as SDGs 10 and 11

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.

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• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Measures for Justice is on a mission to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform.

• racial equity
• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Civic literacy

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

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• Mapping
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Online political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.

• partisan

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• Emerging tech

A collaboration of government, nonprofits, and you to map all the trees of San Francisco's urban forest and understand the ecosystem services they provide.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

ID2020 is a global alliance committed to improving lives through digital identity.

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• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Impactive is an all-in-one digital organizing platform, offering texting (P2P and broadcast), phone banking, relational organizing, and voter registration tools for campaigns, advocacy orgs, nonprofits, unions, and more.

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• Campaign tools

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

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Sumbon is an online platform helping donors and non-profits manage their relationship and track the human impact of donations. Global giving just got easier!

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Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

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• Smart Cities and sensors

LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.

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• Build something

Contains over 200,000 government financial documents

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• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

A speculative story sprint collection

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• Drones

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

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Aristotle is the leading pioneer in political technology, servicing many of the largest grassroots organizations, PACs and political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad.

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BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR

• desktop apps

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• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

The Data and Statistics division of Seoul’s metropolitan government analyzed late night call records provided by the Korean telecom KT Company to plan bus routes in a more inclusive manner.

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• Data science for social good

Campaign platform for nonprofits, brands, advocacy groups

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A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.

• LGBTQI

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• Socialize online
• Fundraising tools

Where news inspires social action

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• Graveyard

Group leaders set the most important actions of the day, while members use the Amplify app to easily accomplish them and encourage others to do the same.

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• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Langeloth Foundation supports health and racial equity outcomes in order to foster and sustain safe and healthy communities.

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OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

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• Playbooks and design principles

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Support civic projects with tech

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

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• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Other analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.

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• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

SpeakEasy democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use targeted direct mail to communicate with voters

• Organize campaigns

Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

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• Awards and prizes

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech