Civic Tech Field Guide
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The Governance Global Practice supports client countries to help them build capable, efficient, open, inclusive, and accountable institutions.
The Impacts of Civic Tech Conference (TICTeC)
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceTICTeC 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.
TED action platform
TED Conferences, Hudson Street, New York, NY, USAthe 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
Centre of United Actions
UkraineTo promote European reforms, advocate transparency and accountability of the government, contribute to enhancing the quality of politics, and fight for the freedom of speech.
The Public Impact Observatory
10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva SwitzerlandThe Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work
A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals
Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2018
United States of America (the)This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.
"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."
Impact Engine is an investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.
Over the past ten years, we’ve helped more than a hundred local and national authorities across four continents think differently about public services
In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened
Impact.jor
Brazil (Brasil)O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.
Tactical Tech
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyTactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.
MapAction
Oxfordshire, UKAn emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field
Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data
2300 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20037, USAPROGRAM ON PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION
Impact Management Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact
Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements. Instead, major procurements should be regarded as opportunities to advance the government leaders’ strategic goals. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities Initiative, the Government Performance Lab provides technical assistance to cities that seek to improve the results they achieve with their contracted dollars by employing results-driven contracting strategies, including:
USA Facts
Vance Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United StatesOur nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.
Wordpress plugin that would connect the post content to related social actions the reader could take
First Act Fund
1201 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAThe First Act Fund is a new source of catalytic funding and support encouraging young people with technical backgrounds to pursue impactful and innovative ideas.
Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies
Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such poss
Practical Participation
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Participation, organisational change, community development, and social technology
#VitaActiva is a guide in three steps to encourage, empower and accompany you to face harassment and violence in your networks.
CivicActions | We help agencies and organizations successfully execute large-scale software projects using open standards technologies and Agile development methodologies.
Share the Facts
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAShare the Facts offers a new way for professional fact checkers—like Politifact, The Washington Post, and FactCheck.org—to spread their work across the Internet.
Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons
487 Central Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.
Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations. By providing high-quality professional graphic design and web development services, we aim to help build and strengthen progressive movements fighting for economic and social justice.
Balancing Act
DenverBalancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.
Measuring the Impact of Open Data
1440 G Street NW Washington, DC 20005Strong evidence on the long-term impact of open data is scarce, so we're developing a body of research to better evaluate the impact of digital transparency initiatives.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.
A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel
The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.
MoCho: Mobility Choices and Societal Impacts
MIT Media LabThis tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.
The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch. In this dynamic environment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been a field leader, investing over $25 million since 2010 in projects […]
The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.
Poverty Action Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.
Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.
Our mission is to empower changemakers and innovators to solve large-scale social problems — strategically and conclusively. We are world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges.
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