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You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.
Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.
BVV-Planspiel
BerlinIm BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
Valencia (Spain)The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.
To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.
The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.
Digital Humanitarian Network
EuropeOutfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.
Civic Nation
Washington, DCCivic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.
The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.
Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).
Beirut Urban Lab
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut LebanonRefugees as City-Makers
Center for Democracy and Citizenship
ADC Business Center, 1929 5th Street South, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55454The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.
Associazione Openpolis
Associazione Openpolis, Via degli Equi 42, 00185 Roma T. Italy"Openpolis è una fondazione indipendente e senza scopo di lucro che promuove progetti per l'accesso alle informazioni pubbliche, la trasparenza e la partecipazione democratica. Svolge attività di giornalismo basato sui dati (data journalism), porta avanti campagne di attivismo civico, fa divulgazione critica sul tema dei dati e sviluppa applicazioni web basate su dati aperti." - Wikipedia Italia
All Out is a global movement for love and equality. We're mobilizing thousands of people to build a world where no person will have to sacrifice their family or freedom, safety or dignity, because of who they are or who they love.
More in Common's mission is to understand the forces driving us apart, to find common ground and help to bring people together to tackle our shared challenges.
Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.
Black Stripe Foundation is a media production company that produces educational television programmes and other media, one of which is the 'Big Debate', a renowned town-hall debate style TV show in South Africa.
A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges
DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.
Trolling, or social media behavior that is uncivil and provocative is one of the most potent sources of political polarization today. You may have heard the expression, "don't feed the trolls," but how do you know if you are interacting with one? Answer as many of the questions you can about another social media user below, and our models will create a prediction about the likelihood that they are a political troll (an extremist who engages in uncivil behavior designed to antagonize the other side).
We're a supportive community in British Columbia, Canada enabling the government to deliver better digital services.
Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html
The Digital Marketplace is a new platform that will help build an ecosystem of innovation and collaboration between tech entrepreneurs and B.C.'s public sector.
A clever campaign riffing on Spotify's Unwrapped year-in-review product, by Fight for the Future and Union of Musicians and Allied Workers. https://github.com/fightforthefuture/spotifyunwrapped.org
research4impact
United States of America (the)We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.
L.A. REPAIR
Los Angeles, CAThe Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.
We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.
Wicked Problems Might Inspire Greater Data Sharing
The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAA report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University
In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar.
Advocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.
The Newsroom
LisbonWe cut out noise and bring perspective to the news through AI
factchecking-sites-scraper
India (Bhārat)One of Tattle's goals is to make stories fact-checking content circulated on chat apps and social media more accessible to mobile first users. To make the content accessible, Tattle wants the content to be discoverable through image search and video search. To implement search, Tattle needs the multi-media content inside the stories from fact-checking sites, linked with the sites that it is coming from.
NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation
The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.
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CV Project
TrentoAn open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project
مبادرة تغريدات (Taghreedat)
Middle East and North AfricaTaghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.
Clean Energy for All
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe Biden Administration's explainer site for the Inflation Reduction Act's renewable energy provisions
Wikirumours
CanadaWikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.
Disinfo Database
EuropeEU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation
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