60 questions about solutions journalism in pandemic times

• Solutions journalism

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

• Decentralization

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Meeting tech
• Surveys & polling

Communication gateway for municipalities

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts
• Issue reporting

Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

CommonVC is an impact innovation and startup studio that is run and funded by people passionate about a sustainable future.

• Social impact design firms

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All. In order to meet that goal, we must examine our Data Dictionaries— the metadata we provide to all Open Data users. Well-written, user-friendly data dictionaries help users to become self-reliant, able to answer their own questions about a dataset without needing to contact an Open Data Coordinator for clarification. NYC Open Data partnered with the Metropolitan Library Council (METRO), Pratt Institute, Sloan Foundation, The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, Tiny Panther Consulting, New York Public Library, Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library to implement an initiative called Metadata for All in the Summer of 2018.

Design and deliver a digital government with and for the American public.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities. Its goal is to place the Urban Agenda at the highest level in development policies. It is coordinated by UN-Habitat and driven by a large number of committed partners - currently 136 partners and networks - from around the world.

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners. Share your work during Open Data Week 2021 or sign up for the NYC Open Data mailing list to learn about training opportunities and upcoming events.

Now-defunct citizen reporting platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Shows and films
• Civic fiction

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

PITcases.org is a university platform to help students and faculty find the best ways to make a positive difference in their communities. The website gives detailed information about projects that have come out of PIT classes, as well as reading lists for those interested in teaching such courses.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Public Interest Tech

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Benchmarks

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting

• Civic and social impact companies
• Participatory budgeting

A weekly newsletter about social change initiatives from Slowalk in Seoul

• Newsletters

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

Now defunct Finnish legislation crowdsourcing site

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

aula is a completely new way of thinking about what participation means, offering young people the chance to play an active part in shaping the world around them. Our online platform and learning resources (click here) promote a better understanding of democracy and develop the skills needed to participate in it.

• students

• Graveyard
• Civic literacy

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Incubators

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Newsletters

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Civic features

"A collaboration among several street artists and Carol Ott, proprietor of the Baltimore Slumlord Watch blog, the group has painted murals on about a dozen vacant buildings in the city so far this summer."

• housing

• Artistic interventions

Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping

• Climate action
• Google

• Civic features

The Tech Worker Handbook is a collection of resources for tech workers who are looking to make more informed decisions about whether to speak out on issues that are in the public interest. Aiming to improve working conditions, direct attention to consumer harms, or otherwise address wrongdoing and abuse should not be a solo or poorly resourced endeavor.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

The Pop Culture Collaborative is a hub for high impact partnerships and grants designed to help organisations and individuals leverage the reach and power of pop culture for social justice goals. By driving authentic, just narratives about people of color, immigrants, refugees, and Muslims in the media, they seek to help shift how mass audiences understand the past, grasp the present, and engage in building an inclusive future.

The California Immigrant Policy Center is managing a research project to gain a much deeper and broader understanding of how Americans think about immigrants.

Argentine Chapter Of Transparency International. Poder Ciudadano is a non-partisan and non-profit foundation that was born in 1989 as an initiative of a group of citizens concerned about the defense of civic rights in our country. From its origins the founders took into account for their integration the criterion of gender equality, diversity in political-party inclinations and social classes. But they shared a base of common values, considering that in this plurality a civic thought could be built that would engage the participants beyond the vote, setting aside differences to strengthen the true value of democracy.

• Watchdogging and transparency

A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.

• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

Instituto Cidade Democrática was born in June 2008 and has already worked in 15 cities, involving about 20 thousand people. Today it is consolidated as a Brazilian think and do tank of social participation. Instituto Cidade Democrática collect and analyze data and produce and share knowledge to leverage the power of civil society.

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fundraising tools
• Data schemas and standards

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Narrative tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

Concise civic engagement research summaries

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Peer-reviewed research

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

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• videos

• Learn about civic tech

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Race to the White House was a program that used GPS technology and Geocaching to create a game to engage the public in a conversation about the presidential election and to discuss issues that were important to participating youth and their community.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Promptable helps students in further education (FE) to succeed in their courses by helping colleges to deliver a proven support programme to their students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs