The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.
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JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006. Members of the website can comment on existing topics or start new topics. The website has been viewed by some as a whistle-blowing platform as citizens blow the whistle on issues that concern the public. Topics on the website range from politics, corruption and governance, and over time the site has become a source of breaking news and a secure whistleblowing platform. The founders of the website have advocated for freedom of media and social networking in Tanzania. The website is notable as the most popular social media website in Tanzania, according to AllAfrica.
This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.
The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.
The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.
Over 60 percent of people that go to court for a minor offence are planning to and plead guilty. The tool enables guilty pleas to be lodged online prior to the scheduled court date for non-complex minor offences.
We play a unique role, experimenting with injecting conservation messaging into online conversations about the ocean. We do this through “attention campaigns.”
VHacks is a hackathon taking place at the Vatican City in Rome on the weekend of March 8-11, 2018. Students from all nationalities and faith-backgrounds are invited for 36 hours of ideation and innovation to address problems in areas of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and migrants & refugees. These 120 students will work in teams…
The ODI startup incubator ran from 2012 to 2017 as a 9-12 months programme supporting early stage startups that used open data as part of their business model.
Reported.ly wrapped up in August 2016 but during its brief yet impactful run, its international team of journalists surfaced breaking news and reported on human rights and social justice issues through the expansive lens of social media.
CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.
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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.
Work4Germany is a 6 months full-time fellowship program for private / non profit sector talents who will work for a German ministry with the goal of modernising working methods and digitising the government from within.
TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.
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
Browse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers’ markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.