Civic Tech Field Guide

Big Data for Gender Challenge UN

women

Big Data from the South

The Big Data from the South Initiative is a space for theoretical and empirical exchange on the challenges of datafication and massive data collection as they unfold in the plurality of South(s) inhabiting our increasingly complex world.

NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)

Washington, DC

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA, USA

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

Telecom Italia's Big Data Challenge

Telecom Italia Lab, Via Arrigo Olivetti, Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy

A 'big data for innovation' competition using telecom data

The Society Library

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

Location Aware Sensing System (LASS) Environmental Sensor Network

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」

Accelerating Makers

Global

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

The Center for New Data

United States of America (the)

The Center for New Data is a non-profit using big data to build a stronger democracy.

“Seeing” Neighborhoods through “Big” Data

Boston, MA

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

Media Mapping

United States of America (the)

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

YouTube

Lead Stories

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

DATACTIVE

a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined. We take a critical look at massive data collection, privacy and surveillance | social movements, activism and internet activism | internet infrastructure, cybersecurity and their governance | open data and civic tech networks.

Research and policy centers

Stockholm University Master's Programme in Open eGovernment

Stockholm

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

One Concern

Menlo Park, California, United States

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

Data Scores as Governance

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

Data Science for Social Good, UChicago

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

The Civic Data Design Lab

MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

The Responsive City

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance [Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew citiesand citizenship in America The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement andgovernance in the digital age that will help leaders link importantbreakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessonsof small-group community input to create more agile

cmapit analytics

Ogbomosho, Nigeria

BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR

Data Harm Record

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

Orange Telecom Data for Development Challenge

Senegal

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

WindyGrid

Chicago, IL

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

SONYC Sounds of New York City

Brooklyn, NY

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

cities
noise

NxtGenPolitics

Policymaking backed by BIG DATA

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

racial equity

Data for Policy

University College London

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

Data Justice Lab

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data