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Migravoice
India (Bhārat)Amplifying voices of migrants and refugees in European Media
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.
Movement Voter Project (MVP)
United States of America (the)Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.
Crowdvocate
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.
Automating (In)Justice: An Adversarial Audit of RisCanvi
Catalonia (Spain)Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."
"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
United States of America (the)An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.
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.
Stump
Boulder, COStump is a non-partisan tool for empowering voters to participate in democracy in a real-time, social, and impactful way.
Rapid integrates advanced mapping tools, authoritative geospatial open data, and cutting-edge technology to empower OpenStreetMap mappers at all levels to get started quickly, making accurate and fresh edits to maps.
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
All Tech Is Human Responsible Tech University Network
New York City, NY, USAAll Tech Is Human’s mission is to grow and diversify the entire Responsible Tech community. The University Network serves that mission by extending opportunities for learning and career growth (and a good time!) to affiliated student clubs at colleges and universities across the globe.
Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.
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.
Launched by a collaborative effort between DataKind, Save the Children, and Microsoft, the Humanitarian Data Insights Project (HDIP) harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline data from multiple sources, making it accessible and interpretable for humanitarian workers at all levels of data maturity.
Open Government for Stronger Democracies
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceAn OECD global assessment of countries' implementation of its 2017 Recommendation on Open Government
Juris Law & Rights App
Mozambique (Mocambique)We seek to empower the poor to know their rights so they can receive justice and avoid exploitation and corruption in many areas of life.
Budget Justice Coalition South Africa
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) aims to collaboratively build people's participation in and understanding of South Africa's budget and planning processes.
Imali Yethu
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Imali Yethu is a coalition of civil society organisations working with the South African National Treasury to make budget information more accessible, user-friendly and empowering.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
United States of America (the)Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.
This book considers the ways in which the concept of the Rule of Law will need to evolve in order to ensure that the exercise of power by Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not become arbitrary and does not proceed unchecked.
Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, and social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory and empowerment practice
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
This book traces an array of important political and social movements from their inception to their apex, with plentiful side discussions of notable proponents.
This volume sets out to analyse the relation between social media and politics by investigating the power of the internet and more specifically social media, in the political and social discourse
The Activists' Handbook is a powerful guide to social change activism and an essential resource for anyone ready to make a difference.
It begins with a startlingly basic question: "e;Why don't we the people govern?"e; In this provocative book, the authors mount a powerful case that the time has come for more direct democracy in the United States, showing that the
Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments
This report is based on the findings of the three-year project which examined the media's influence on the lives of young people throughout Europe
Two specific challenges are at the core of this book's argument that media literacy is the path toward more active and robust civic engagement in the 21st century: How can media literacy enable core competencies for value-driven, diverse ...
If not you, who? If not now, when? This is a unique and practical guide to activism which combines the latest thinking, experiences and advice from the world's greatest activists
How do we ensure that implementations of Open Data Now products are done in a way that ensures safety?
This book examines the role of policy expertise in a democratic society
Its key proposition is that, in politics, it is not only power that counts, but good discussions and arguments too
Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour
What are your key Citizen science organizational performance measures, including key short and longer-term financial measures?
This book critically examines ‘smart city’ discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the ‘citizen’ as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to ...
For those looking to organize for the first time or for seasoned activists looking to update their repertoire, the time is ripe for a playbook like Becoming a Citizen Activist.
In Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization, Michael J. Rich and Robert P. Stoker confront the puzzle of why the outcomes achieved by the original Empowerment Zones varied so widely given that each city had the same set of federal ...
This book opens with an examination of the technological reality on which Smart Cities are built, from the chips and sensors that enable us to monitor what happens within the infrastructure to the smartphones that connect individuals.
The digital space is a powerful enabler for more inclusive democratic discourse, participation and policy-making
In this thesis, I will perform a rhetorical analysis of two primary actors involved in the smart city movement: corporate actors and academic observers. Rhetoric is discourse, and discourse wields power.
The first book devoted to a critically important aspect of disaster planning, management, and mitigation Technology and Emergency Management, Second Edition describes best practices for technology use in emergency planning, response,
In this timely book, Paul Mihailidis explores the texture of daily engagement in civic life, and the resources—human, technological, and practical—that citizens employ when engaging in civic actions for positive social impact.
User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets
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