Civic Tech Field Guide
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Democracy Labs
San FranciscoDemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.
The Catalog of Digital Solutions is an interactive online tool providing data and resources for donors, governments, procurers, and implementers to support their digital initiatives.
In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.
Accessibility ABCs
Tunisia (Tunis)A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community
The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.
Civic Access
Canadaurging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens
Advocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.
Discover toolkits, tutorials, and templates for building winning campaigns.
Digital Worker Inquiry Project Gallery
Edinburgh, ScotlandA collection of tools designed to support gig economy workers
Sinar Project
23, Jalan Pantai 9/7 46000 Petaling Jaya Selangor, MalaysiaSinar Project is a civic tech initiative using open technology, open data and policy analysis to systematically make important information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people. It aims to improve governance and encourage greater citizen involvement in the public affairs of the nation by making Parliament and Malaysian Government more open, transparent and accountable.
NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation
Socks Talk Politics
Vienna“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.
Democracy Technologies
ViennaA magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.
Hack Your Bureaucracy
United States of America (the)A book by Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai
Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo
InfoActivismo
South AmericaA collection of tactics, cases, and guides to using information for activism
The Propagandists' Playbook
United States of America (the)How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi
This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network. Here you can access courses, guides, and additional resources as part of your digital transformation learning journey. Whether you are just embarking on this path or are a seasoned hand, there are courses tailored to your level and interest!
The Demography Project
KenyaThe Demography Project is an independent youth-led civic technology and data journalism non profit registered in Kenya.
Google Sheet with over 200 impact investors listed
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
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WeVis
Bangkok, ThailandWeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.
El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología
Spain (España)El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.
An Airtable of over 172 impact investors
Bethnal Green's Directory of over 80 impact organisations in tech for good
Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies
Code for Africa Slack
AfricaDo you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?
ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens. The Medium publication covers disinfo trends, provides micro-grant funding to research fellows, and publishes investigations, as well as tools and resources for fighting disinformation.
Onlinezugangsgesetz (OZG)
Germany (Deutschland)Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.
CIPESA
Kampala, UgandaICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa
Eduplana
NigeriaEduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.
NYC Open Data Project Gallery
New York City, NY, USAOn the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.
Demtech Navigator
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKThis is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.
Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation. This guide seeks to create an inclusive, collaborative approach to addressing misinformation around the world. While not every law contained here relates to misinformation specifically, they’ve all often been wrapped into that broader discussion. Article will be updated on an ongoing basis.
The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.
We are a global network of like-minded innovation programmes across GovTech, Civic Tech and Academia. With teams across 17 countries, we help our members deliver better outcomes for their citizens and innovation ecosystems.
SALTO Resource pool
EuropeA collection of 700+ resources targeted at EU youth
A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.
Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.
Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.
Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.
A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio
Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.
An Airtable of over 200 social change design firms led by BIPoC. Curated by George Aye.
The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.
Chad Innovation Hub
Chad (Tchad)Tech hub empowering youth through innovation, entrepreneurship, Civic tech, SDG and Tech4good in Africa
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