Empowering designers within government

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• Govtech

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

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

The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has been […]

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• In-person meetings

Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The Code for America Brigade Network is a national alliance of community organizers, developers, and designers that are putting technology to work in service of our local communities.

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• Graveyard
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CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

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• Civic hacking meetups

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

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• Socialize online

Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.

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• Courses

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

• air quality

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• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

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• The People
• Civic data

A group of coders, designers, government reps, and citizens building a better #Fresno

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• Civic hacking meetups

Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help local government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

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• Civic hacking meetups

IIT Institute of Design (ID) is a graduate design school with a history of innovation. ID pioneered the development and dissemination of modern design from its founding in 1937 as the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Today, our graduate design school focuses on global challenges. We prepare designers to take on the worlds complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable problems such as competitiveness, digital media and learning, health and wellbeing, and social innovation.

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

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• Civic hacking meetups

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

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• Media

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

Reach Planetizen's massive audience of planners, designers, architects, developers, academics, and other professionals who are working with the built environment.

• urban planning

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• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

International community of policymakers, service designers, digital people & others working to reform government and make public services better

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Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

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• Civic hacking meetups

We are Code for Newark, the local Newark brigade of Code for America. We are a diverse group of newbies, pros, developers, coders, data geeks, and designers who are interested in making ourselves and our world a better place.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

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• Civic hacking meetups

We're a bunch of civic-minded technologists, designers, and topic experts using our skills to improve Atlanta and the world.

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Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census

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• Media

As part of the Code for America Brigade Network, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

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• Civic hacking meetups

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

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• The People
• Engagement tech

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Building inside government

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

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• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Code With Aloha is a volunteer group of developers, designers, project managers, and community members who gather to work on civic projects that help the community.

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• Civic hacking meetups