Civic Tech Field Guide
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New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.
Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.
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.
Civictech Accelerator Program (Code for Japan)
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)Japan's first civic tech accelerator 日本初のシビックテック領域特化型 アクセラレータープログラム、始動。
Democracy Workers Collective
New York CityA union for Democracy Works employees. Fulfilling the promise of a more equitable, sustainable, and representative democracy, inside and outside of Democracy Works.
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.
The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.
We are campaign workers from across the United States who are committed to improving our work conditions, empowering organizers, and promoting healthy career longevity.
Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:
Just One Giant Lab
Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) - 8 bis rue Charles V, 75004, ParisJust One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.
Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.
Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world
Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.
An Airtable with thousands of climate tech products, services, capital sources, and networks
A collection of open source digital public goods sorted by Sustainable Development Goals
Ukraine Evac Support
TorontoCivic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine
Resistance School
BerkeleyTurn your online outrage into offline action
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
CfA Workers United
San FranciscoWe, the workers of Code for America, are proud to announce that we are unionizing.
At Nava, we work with government agencies to provide digital services that are simple, accessible, and effective for all. Now, a supermajority of eligible employees have come together to form our union, Nava United, which is affiliated with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Tech Workers Union Local 1010.
ActionBound
Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, GermanyTake people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, Florida, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors — now News Leaders Association — and has grown into an enduring initiative to promote open government.
Academia de Innovación Política
Paris, FranceLa Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.
Three years of organizing, writing, and documenting in Chicago civic tech at the Smart Chicago Collaborative. By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Nei…
This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
Find organizations, chapters, and groups that are leading the progressive movement.
A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
A collection of 232 resources for political progressives
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
AI Initiative
Cambridge, MA, USAThe AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.
Beat the supply-chain blues with our staff picks for affordable alternative presents — plus toys, treats and tools for the holiday season.
NYC law: Reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies.
New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USAA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies
President Biden's Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government
Washington, DCExecutive Order to streamline the process of obtaining public benefits across 17 federal agencies
A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.
The New York Times on civic tech for social benefits
The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.
g0v Taiwan
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.
Code for All’s new program brings people together who work similar civic tech roles, but at different organizations and in different parts of the world.
Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.
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