Civic Tech Field Guide
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Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.
2022 Survey of Federal Chief Data Officers
Washington, DCAn annual survey and report by Data Foundation
Trapped in a Web: The Exploitation of Personal Data in Hungary’s 2022 Elections
Hungary (Magyarország)The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.
Digital Platform Commission Act of 2022
Washington, DCLegislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."
Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award
In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.
A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice
For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.
Institute for Government UIK Performance Tracker 2022
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandPerformance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.
A Code for America Network program designed to create opportunities for Brigades to strengthen partnerships and catalyze local impact.
Digital democracy: analysis of the disinformation ecosystems on Telegram during the 2022 Brazilian electoral process
Brazil (Brasil)Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022
Uchaguzi 2022
KenyaElection monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022
Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.
Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.
The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange
Washington, DCThe Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.
Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.
Tussell Tech200
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandTussell & techUK are thrilled to share the 3rd annual Tech200 awards - our list of the 200 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK public sector, from FY 2021/22 to FY 2022/23.
PROTESTORY!
Germany (Deutschland)Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft. PROTESTORY! bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit Protesten der Arbeiter:innenjugend vom 20. Jahrhundert bis heute und macht jugendkulturellen Protest digital erlebbar und historisches Wissen nutzbar. (As a web application PROTESTORY! offers a playful exploration of the protest cultures of working-class youth since the early 20th century and was created in collaboration with the archive of the working-class youth movement in 2022.)
À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.
A Voté chatbot sur WhatsApp
Paris, FranceIl assiste les utilisateurs dans leur parcours de vote : pour vérifier leur inscription sur les listes électorales, leur rappeler les dates limites pour s’inscrire, les dates des élections 2022 et la procédure pour faire une procuration.
Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars
Krama App
Prague, CzechiaKrama App is a mobile app for responsible consumer who cares whether the business still does business in Russia or not
MyCandidate
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.
Jibungoto Planet
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.
African AI Observatory
Cape Town, South AfricaBringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.
Civic AI Handbook
LondonThe Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.
USAID One Window for Citizens
Cambodia (Kampuchea)USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).
Digital Authentication and Identity Proofing in Public Benefits Applications
Georgetown University, Washington, DCCreated and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.
debeunKEd
KenyadebeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.
Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC)
Arlington, VAThe 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.
In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.
Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.
Diia Digital country
Ukraine (Ukrayina)Ukrainian digital government app
The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."
MyCandidate Nigeria
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
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PartyParty
BerlinPartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
Paper: LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States | Scientific Data
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAA paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US
LocalView
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USALocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.
Customer Experience Projects
Washington, DCThe Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
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