Civic Tech Field Guide
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Data Collaboratives for Local Impact
Washington, DCLEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
Transit Supply San Francisco Transit Merch
San FranciscoA collection of transit merchandise, designed in San Francisco by me, Chris Arvin.
Progressive gifts made by designers who give a shit
PITcases.org
Washington, DCPITcases.org is a university platform to help students and faculty find the best ways to make a positive difference in their communities. The website gives detailed information about projects that have come out of PIT classes, as well as reading lists for those interested in teaching such courses.
BVG Berlin Merchandise
BerlinGet the pattern from the U-Bahn fabric on some leggings
Govbase is an open, crowdsourced database of projects and tools in online governance.
Seminar of digital democracy
Leuven, BelgiumThis seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.
Toolkit Navigator
EuropeThe Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation, curated by OPSI and our partners around the world
With thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, TICTeC has expanded from an annual conference into a year-round programme of activities and events: TICTeC Labs. The aim of TICTeC Labs is to discuss and tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the global civic tech/digital democracy sector. We want to grow the civic tech evidence base, address issues, and enhance the effectiveness and potential impact of civic tech projects.
DATA Uruguay
Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.
Code for Japan Slack Community
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.
A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.
International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.
The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ] is a non-governmental organisation, that was founded in 2014. PTCIJ] works to promote a truly independent media landscape that advances fundamental human rights, good governance and accountability in West Africa through investigative journalism, open data and civic technology.
Code for Japan Summit
Japan (Nihon or Nippon)It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.
Solutions exist. Let's make them a reality.
Concise civic engagement research summaries
The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers
TICTeC Local
City Hall, London, UKTICTeC Local is the annual conference from mySociety that focuses directly on the use of Civic Tech in communities and local government.
A podcast highlighting the new normal of urbanism in our globalized cities, as told by Kristen Jeffers and Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman - two female urbanists. . 38 Tracks. 277 Followers. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Third Wave Urbanism on your desktop or mobile device.
A report on innovations attempted by Mobile Network Operators following the major earthquake in Nepal
Civicist
118 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USACivic Hall's former blog and newsletter. Previously known as TechPresident, Civicist is no longer online.
Speculative Tourism
JerusalemSpeculative Tourism is an international project that operates at the crossroads of science fiction, historical tourism, Augmented Reality and local action.
Deliberative Media Initiative Lab
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginiaassessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation
Citizen Interaction Design University of Michigan
University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USACitizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.
Konveio
1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202, USAKonveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.
City Of Tomorrow
AmsterdamIt explores how different stakeholders in the Smart City ecosystem can come together to build safer, more efficient and sustainable cities of the future.
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects
Center for an Informed Public
The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USATo resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
Police Rewired
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.
The CUTgroup book
Chicago, ILCivic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…
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