This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

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Civic tech projects can aim at changing citizen’s behaviours. Zlato from South Africa is a digital platform which rewards positive behaviour inside communities thanks to a digital currency which can be used to purchase local products, from clothes to haircuts.

We are a technology nonprofit committed to inspire and bring positive social change to the world. We harness the medium of innovative, digital technology to promote education, learning, and empowerment - the building blocks to lasting change.

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An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data

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Ahora los ciudadanos de Medellín tenemos un espacio para compartir ideas y asumir retos frente a temas de ciudad: #MiMedellín

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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.

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SmartParticipation is an open source e-participation platform based on Drupal and designed to offer an effective and adaptable environment for informed online discussion.

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Partecipa is the Bologna participation and collaboration platform where it is possible to access the processes of collaboration and care of common goods. Sign up, report, propose and vote for proposals.

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A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices

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TIPS, TOOLS AND HOW-TOS FOR SAFER ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS

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Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

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In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

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Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

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invites citizens to help set Parliament's agenda with a sophisticated form of ranked voting that allows them to express more nuanced preferences than traditional first-past-the-post systems

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Benvingut/da a la plataforma de participació de Barcelona.Construïm una ciutat més oberta, transparent i col·laborativa.Entra, participa i decideix!

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Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.

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a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement

Find low-cost internet and affordable computers in your area.

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Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

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Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

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The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

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RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age.

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It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

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Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

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De overheidsbrede kenniscommunity Gebruiker Centraal wil een servicegerichte en gebruiksvriendelijke (digitale) overheid. Via evenementen leren we van elkaars ervaringen en doen we ideeën op. Met instrumenten delen we die kennis.

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Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

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We provide software that ensures free speech online

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Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

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Le site qui vous donne la parole

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The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

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innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

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Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

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See contact information and details about Social Coin.

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At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.

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Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.

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Tech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley

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• Quality education

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Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

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SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

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To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

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Chatbots for the next generation of digital organizing

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The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.

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Medialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.

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Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

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Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

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• Fight disinformation

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

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una plataforma para activar y canalizar la participación de tu comunidad

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Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

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Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database. It is a collaborative digital platform that aims to record the incidence of shootings and the prevalence of armed violence in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and Recife.

• apps
• gun safety

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• Data visualization

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

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Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

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