Civic Tech Field Guide

MinnPost

Minneapolis

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

ShakeAlert®

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

People Smart Cities

Europe

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

cities

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank - A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the

Nafundi

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).

Areto Analyzer (formerly ParityBOT)

Canada

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent

Datos Peru

Peru

Open Data Project Web Peru

Ma Dada

France

Ma Dada est un site associatif qui vous aide à faire des demandes d’accès aux documents administratifs communicables.

Nuffield Foundation

The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 and aims to improve social well-being by funding research and innovation in education, justice and welfare.

ThaiPublica

62 Ram 5 seperate 3 Rd. Bangkhen, Bangkok 10220 Thailand

สำนักข่าวออนไลน์ไทยพับลิก้า ThaiPublica.org ก่อตั้งในเดือนกันยายน 2554 นำเสนอข่าวสืบสวนสอบสวน เน้นประเด็นตรวจสอบความโปร่งใสภาครัฐ ความโปร่งใสภาคเอกชน และการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน ดำเนินงานโดยทีมงานนักข่าวอาชีพที่มีประสบการณ์ในวงการรวมกันกว่า 60 ปี

Dalberg Consulting

We are a global group of change makers working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential.

The Bristol Cable

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Detect Political Fakes

deepfakes How good are you at spotting political deepfakes? Test yourself with the latest version of Detect Fakes, featuring a series of both real videos and deepfakes of the two most recent US presidents. The goal of this work, developed by researchers in the Affective Computing and Viral Communications research groups, is to "prebunk" deepfakes—videos manipulated by neural networks—by

Frontiers of Digital Development Forum

Washington, DC

Event: A critical look at the future of emerging tech

The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

WFP Innovation Challenge

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

Challenges

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) – A Refugee Led Initiative

Uganda

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda. CTENs mission is to give community knowledge in digital technology for purposes of understanding and eventually building digital skills for employability, resulting in livelihoods resilience.

refugees

Response Innovation Lab Iraq

Iraq (al-ʿIrāq)

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

WhatsApp archiver

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.

USAID Digital Government Model

Washington, DC

This document provides a descriptive model as the basis for a shared understanding and vocabulary of the key components of digital government for the development community.

GovTrack Legislator Misconduct Database

United States Capitol

This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

Watchdogging and transparency

Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund

The Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund is a new US$4.5 million fund created by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2020, to provide grants to external organizations that support knowledge equity by addressing the racial inequities preventing access and participation in free knowledge.

Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

cities

Countering QAnon: Understanding the Role of Human Trafficking in the Disinformation-Extremist Nexus

A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik

anti-trafficking

Data Playbook V1

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología

Spain (España)

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

Bethnal Green Ventures Tech For Good Programme

London

We invest into 20-24 new teams a year through our two programmes in the spring and autumn.

Code for Africa Slack

Africa

Do you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?

CIPESA

Kampala, Uganda

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

Onlinezugangsgesetz (OZG)

Germany (Deutschland)

Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.

Public Interest Technology Convening

CUNY Graduate Center

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

Urbanpinion

Eastern Europe

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

PIT-UN Network Challenge

United States of America (the)

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

Open Development Thailand DataHub

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

A repository with over 1400 open datasets

Open Development Thailand

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Sharing information about Thailand and its development with the world.

River Sentiment Dashboard

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

International Partnership on Information and Democracy

The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space. It was formally signed during the 74th UN General Assembly in September 2019.

Detektor Media

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

Making Sense of the News course

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

El Sabueso

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

Dogruluk Payi

Turkey (Turkiye)

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

Snopes

United States of America (the)

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.