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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 Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere
New Haven, CTTo support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere
Strong Towns is a non-profit organization working to support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become financially strong and resilient.
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, CanadaThe Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.
Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeirostudies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world
This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…
Open Toledo
Toledo, OhioOpen Toledo focuses on civic technology and government technology, technologies that enhance civic engagement and help government run efficiently.
Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI)
Valencia, Carabobo, VenezuelaCentro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales
Prototype Fund Projects Catalog
Singerstraße 109, 10179 Berlin, GermanyA collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.
Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.
Technology and Social Change Research Project
124 Mount Auburn Street, 2nd Floor, South Elevators Cambridge, MA 02138Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action
Inter-American Development Bank's repository for open-source software
CivLab
Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, USACivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.
A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises
We are civic tech collaboration that partners with the community to design technology-driven programs and services.
Digital Refugee Projects
betterplace Solutions GmbH, Schlesische Straße, Berlin, Germany118 projects to help refugees, curated by betterplace lab
The Data Coalition advocates on behalf of the private sector and the public interest for the publication of government information as standardized, machine-readable data.
PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.
Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.
Justice Innovation Startup Lab
University of Southern California LALearn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.
A database of projects and organizations dedicated to fighting COVID-19
LIANE
Latin AmericaThe Liane project is a box of technologies and methodologies open to promote political renewal campaigns in Latin America, which organizes the intelligence that has been produced in the field and provides digital technologies with the objective of increasing the competitiveness of low-cost and high-level electoral campaigns intensity.
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Innovate Government course at Harvard Kenney School
79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United StatesTo collaborate with government clients to understand the problem space and develop real solutions.
The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.
Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.
More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.
Code for America API
San FranciscoThe Code for America API. Tracks and motivates activity and participation across the civic technology movement.
The Centers for Civic Impact @ Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins UniversityNow GovEx
This group is for events hosted by Open Austin (http://www.open-austin.org/), for people interested in open government, open data, & civic technology.At our Open Gov & Civic Tech Meetups we typically
Wise Entertainment
Los Angeles, CAWise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.
Follow The Money Nigeria
NigeriaWe advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.
Copenhagen Internet Infrastructure Walk
CopenhagenThis walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.
The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.
CharityBase
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKAt the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.
Citizen Data Lab Amsterdam
Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), Weesperzijde, Amsterdam, NetherlandsA research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.
Count the Nation
Los Angeles, CAThe USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.
A no-longer-updated catalog of European digital social innovation funded by EU Horizon 2020
Humanitarian Data Exchange
The Hague, NetherlandsFind, share and use humanitarian data all in one place
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