Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.

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O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding.  Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• United States (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion.

• Ukraine

• Cybersecurity
• Public Private Partnerships

an open-source tool that allows individuals and organizations to centralize and manage reports sent by Tella users, including photos, videos and audios

• Digital security and privacy

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers

• United States (federal government)

• Hardware
• Regulation
• Trustmarks

A powerful & impactful software that helps manage volunteers and their impact. Signup for a Demo

• Manage volunteers

La solución gratuita e intuitiva para que des tus primeros pasos en la gestión de contactos y donantes

• Nonprofit tech
• CRM

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Command Line Phone Number Buyer for Twilio

• Advocacy tech
• Peer to peer SMS

A state-of-the-art, white-labeled, job marketplace solution for governments and nonprofits. Visit Commons.Jobs

• Job board software

Peer 2 Peer fundraiser for individuals, teams & supporters

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Fundraising tools

Built by experts from the Bernie 2020 campaign, Spoke Rewired is the lowest cost peer-to-peer texting tool on the market.

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Long-running progressive digital organizing group based in the US

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer networks

Comprometidos con los asuntos públicos, trabajamos en el Desarrollo y Aplicación de herramientas para sociedades más democráticas, participativas e inclusivas.

• rural

• Citizen Engagement

We are Bingwa Civic Tech Lab, a youth-led initiative based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting technically the community and civil society organisations through co-creative and collaborative processes to implement digital solutions informing decision makers and different stakeholders to improve social services

• trainings
• Gender Equality

• Hubs

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• city
• United Nations

• Playbooks and design principles
• Policy

Online community tracking earthquakes with Raspberry Shakes: Professional grade seismograph and infrasound monitors that anyone can use to record and visualize both natural and human activity.

• earthquakes
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

De projectpartners zijn de gemeente Amsterdam, gemeente Groningen, Stichting Netwerk Democratie en DiA. In 2020-2021 gaan zij Polis testen en samen met andere gemeenten onderzoeken wat nodig is om op te schalen naar de rest van het land.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

FathomNet is an open-source image database for understanding our ocean and its inhabitants

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Environmental data

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• city
• Gender Equality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Interoperable Europe is the initiative of the European Commission for a reinforced public sector interoperability policy. The Interoperable Europe Act proposes a strategic interoperability cooperation mechanism across the European Union.

• Govtech
• Government Interoperability

Digital Europe for All (DE4A) effectively puts forward a new Member State-driven large-scale pilot aimed at compliance with Single Digital Gateway and aligned with EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, Tallinn Declaration and EIF Implementation Strategy.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Data visualization

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design

eGovlab is the Stockholm University Centre for Excellence in e-Governance Studies focused on driving European and International research collaboration for research and development in the area of IT in the Public Sector.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Accelerators

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Vetted methods, key principles, inspiring stories and experts from around the world

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles
• Collective intelligence

The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

Wir sind ein zivilgesellschaftlicher, überparteilicher Think & Do Tank für losbasierte Bürgerbeteiligung. Wir initiieren geloste Bürgerräte kommunal, im Wahlkreis, national und sogar in öffentlichen Institutionen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Gewählt. Gelost. Gemeinsam. Wahlkreisräte für die Demokratie

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

150+ members pooling email audience information to drive list growth, donor growth, reactivation, and advocacy

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Email campaign tools

US-based campaign vendor that does SMS, email fundraising, paid media, direct mail, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Dabei haben sich Katharina Liesenberg und Linus Strothmann vom Team Es geht LOS einer jahrtausendealten, urdemokratischen Methode bedient: des Losens

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Books

La iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Digital participation platform for the Icelandic Pirate party

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making
• Political parties

How political parties have changed in the age of social media

• books

• Books
• Political parties

Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform

• Advocacy tech
• Group decision making
• Political parties