Civic Tech Field Guide

Qlue My City

Jalan Pejaten Barat No.13, RT.2/RW.10, Ragunan, Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta City, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 12510, Indonesia

Kumpulan cerita tentang orang, studi kasus, penelitian kami, dan wajah kota yang selalu berubah yang Anda jalani. // Qlue is a crowd-sourcing smartphone app where the users can report various incidents such as flooding, crime, fires or waste-related issues.

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An index of nearly 200 technology ethics courses

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

Dear South Africa

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

Petitions

TED action platform

TED Conferences, Hudson Street, New York, NY, USA

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

CitizenLab

Cantersteen 12

Bringing the town hall to your citizens

Online Candidate

Montgomery, NY

Providing an affordable website platform geared for political campaigns and organizations.

Campaign tools

Liquid

United States of America (the)

Demo data visualization of an election held with liquid democracy in place

Ask Without Shame

Uganda

Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS. Medical experts and counsellors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018, scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.

WhatsApp

The Skeptic's Guide to Open Government

When you open government, what do you get in return? If you are asking this question, this guide is for you.

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Parvaznama

Tehran

By receiving, storing and analyzing flight data, the boards of the country's 17 airports and calculating flight delays help passengers make a data-driven choice

Obywatelskie Fedrowanie Danych

Ursynowska 2200-001, Warszawa, Poland

“FOIA Data Mining” is a FOIA service that enables watchdog organizations to organize volunteers in retyping and structuring responses to FOIA requests.

BiciDatos

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Monitoreo ciudadano de datos sobre ciclismo urbano en Cochabamba

Carrotmob

Carrotmob is a new way to influence businesses. We spend money as a group, and in return businesses take socially-responsible actions we care about.

Identication for Development

To enable all people to exercise their rights and access services, ID4D helps countries realize the transformational potential of inclusive, robust, and responsible digital identification systems.

ElectNext

Philadelphia

If knowledge is a door to information, data is the key. When you’re talking about politics and government, information is extremely important to those who are making decisions on who to vote for and what legislation to get behind or block.

Instituții Publice

Romania

Navighează profilele celor 14.000+ instituții publice și evaluează eficiența, profesionalismul și integritatea acestora din prisma propriei experiențe.

Development Check

London

Citizens monitor. Everyone wins.

Shine Your Eye

Nigeria

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

Behavior Change for Good Initiative

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, USA

StepUp is a free habit building, science-based workout program developed by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. The program is being launched in partnership with 24 Hour Fitness.

Orange Telecom Data for Development Challenge

Senegal

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

m-Omulimisa

Uganda

m-Omulimisa is an agriculture technology company that leverages ICT tools especially mobile phone technology to improve the livelihoods of small holder farmers in Uganda.

Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Anti-Monopoly

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board. The players are Trust-Busting lawyers going about the board slapping lawsuits on the monopolies. The winning trust buster is the one who ends with the largest number of social-credit points when one of the players runs out of money.There are 3 kinds of company combinations on the board: Oligopolies, Trusts and Monopolies, marked by one, two and three “accusation circles” respectively. “Accusing” is done by placing a small, round chip of the same color as your token on such a circle. When all accusation circles of a combination are covered, the monopolistic practices of that combination have been ended. An accusation chip can be bought from the “Budget-Commissioner”; when lending money, he provides a Social-Credit card as an IOU.Variant rules are supplied for a Low-Budget Game and a Trading Game.Anspach fought –and won– a vicious court battle against Hasbro (and others) over this game.Anti-Monopoly was briefly (1976-1982) published as “Anti” and “Anti-Monopoly II” was published as “Choice” whilst the company was forbidden to use the word “Monopoly”. In 1984 after prevailing in court the company used the names “Anti-Monopoly” and “Anti-Monopoly II” for its two games. In 1987, Anti-Monopoly was withdrawn and Anti-Monopoly II was renamed “Anti-Monopoly”. The game described here was produced as Anti-Monopoly before 1976 and from 1984 thru 1987. The game produced as Anti-Monopoly after 1987 is a different game, with the same name. Plenty of potential for confusion there, eh?

Future Cities Expo

London

Cityx is a two-day expo organised by Connected Places Catapult taking place at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 13th – 14th November 2019.

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Progressive Coders Network

35019 Quaker Way, Farmington Hills, Michigan

Progressive Coders Network is a 501(c)(4) non-partisan progressive community of tech and non-tech activists building open-source tools to empower the grassroots and reduce the influence of big money in politics.

Storyweaver Freedom to Read

StoryWeaver offers open source libraries for children's books in their native languages.

Decidim

Barcelona, Spain

Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

Decidim

New Urban Visions

Warsaw, Poland

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

Tech & Check Conference

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

Ulule

Ulule: The 1st European crowdfunding site. Already 24208 projects funded with success. Make good things happen!

Mobile Coverage Maps

The Michigan Moonshot is Merit’s commitment to ending the digital divide. The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography. The Moonshot Team needs citizen scientists, like YOU to help us gather data about the internet in your community.

Harta corupției judeţene

Romania

Code Alliance

Dear Social Good Coders! It’s with huge excitement today that I announce the relaunch of our SocialCoding4Good (SC4G) initiative as Code Alliance!

Win the White House

Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

Grassroot

Johannesburg, South Africa

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

Sumbon

Sumbon is an online platform helping donors and non-profits manage their relationship and track the human impact of donations. Global giving just got easier!