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Montclair Local Nonprofit News
Montclair, NJMontclair Local Nonprofit News is an independent local news organization founded in 2017 with the mission to spark dialogue, objectively inform, and build community in Montclair through independent, in-depth, factual reporting on local issues and events such as schools, elected officials, institutions, businesses, restaurants, and culture.
Paragraph Ranch LLC / The Texas Spur
Spur, TXThe Texas Spur (founded 1909) is the flagship weekly print and online newspaper of an award-winning regional five-newspaper group. It covers local government, education, agriculture, courts, sports, health, and lifestyle across ten contiguous rural counties of West Texas that are underserved by other media.
Lede New Orleans
New Orleans, LALede New Orleans is a community journalism nonprofit that equips creative professionals from underrepresented communities, ages 18-25, with the skills, tools, and resources to transform local media. The outlet meets information needs in Black, Latino, and other New Orleans communities that are underrepresented in local legacy media through media produced by young people from those same communities.
Windy City Times
Chicago, ILWindy City Times creates content that is by, for, and about Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community. Since 1985, the free publication has ensured that the LGBTQ+ and allied communities have the information and resources they need to make informed decisions on healthcare, policy, advocacy, and more.
Dorchester Reporter
Boston, MAThe Dorchester Reporter is a family-owned and operated community news organization committed to delivering high-quality journalism to the people of Boston’s neighborhoods with a focus on traditionally underserved communities in Dorchester and Mattapan since 1983.
Flint Beat
Flint, MIFlint Beat was launched by veteran journalist Jiquanda Johnson in 2017 to fill news gaps in an underserved community after Flint, Mich. residents said they needed more from their news coverage.
KHASOKHAS
Corona, NYKhasokhas, or “verified truth,” has been the voice of the Nepali community in New York City since 2012, breaking down language barriers and providing accessible, vital information on immigration, housing, taxes, health, and more. Its goal is to be the bridge for Nepali-speaking immigrants who struggle with English, offering resources in the Nepali language through distinctive reporting, impactful storytelling, interviews, and analysis.
"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"
MOXY
Washington, DCA Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations
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
Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…
A22 Network
EuropeWe are a growing international network racing to save everything we love by using effective civil resistance across our 12 countries.
Conservation X Labs (CXL)
Washington, DCUnlike traditional conservation efforts, Conservation X Labs focuses on leveraging the best technology, the newest innovation, interdisciplinary genius, and the power of the marketplace to boldly confront the biggest problems facing the planet.
The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.
Cooperative AI Course
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
Evidence from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shows that digital aid is a cost-effective, credible, and efficient way to reach vulnerable populations, in this case poor, tech-illiterate, female-headed households, in fragile states.
The Midwest Newsroom
IowaThe Midwest Newsroom is a partnership among Iowa Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.
東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・
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.
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."
Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world
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.
The People Say
20 Jay Street, Suite 203 Brooklyn, NY 11201 USAA qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.
Empurrando Juntas
São PauloFree tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.
OpenGovLoc
Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.
Cali Cómo Vamos
CaliCali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Editorial El Tiempo, la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá y la Fundación Corona.
#startsmall
San FranciscoBlock Head - Jack Dorsey's public fund for global COVID-19 relief. After the pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI.
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.
Open Government for Stronger Democracies
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceAn OECD global assessment of countries' implementation of its 2017 Recommendation on Open Government
Counting trucks for environmental justice
A Visual Guide to the Influencers Shaping the 2024 Election
United States of America (the)From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.
Can modern AI help solve today’s critical challenges of climate change and nature loss? The Grand Challenge will offer up to $100 million in total funding over three rounds.
UK Local Stats
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years
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.
Public Data Access Programs - A First Look
Washington, DCThe EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses
Selfie Control
WyomingAn Instagram filter that reminds you not to get too close to wild animals as you take your photo
Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)
United States of America (the)GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.
Through voicemail, apps, websites, and Twitter, Boston’s sophisticated 311 system allows citizens to report potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, and vandalism that affect everyone’s quality of life. Drawing on Boston’s rich data, Daniel T. O’Brien offers a model of what smart technology can do for cities seeking both growth and sustainability.
Book abstract: The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance examines how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with and influences governance systems
Presented at the 1st International Conference on Urban Growth and the Circular Economy that was held in Alicante, Spain the papers included in this book focus on the continuing and rapid growth of cities and their regions of influence and how that has led to the need to find new solutions which allow for promoting their sustainable development
Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers
The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011)
Modern day and technology-rich environments require a reconceptualization of how the nature of technology influences urban areas
Social innovations are products, services and models that meet social needs and generate new social connections or collaborations.
The purposes of this study are to 1) examine how well the legislative systems developed or used by the U
This book dives into the practical applications of AI, revealing its potential to enhance services, reduce costs, and boost efficiency in local government.
The handbook has been used by Midwest Academy since 1973 in its organizing and activism seminars
Starting from the 1980s, this book provides the first, complete history of the idea of deliberative democracy, analysing its relationship with the earlier idea, and practices, of participatory democracy in the 1960s and 1970s.
This book is about the principles behind the open government data movement and its development in the United States.
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