Parole and probation violations have an outsized effect on state prison populations. The Course Corrections Cost Calculator uses data, soon to be released in our annual Confined and Costly report, to show how simple changes in probation and parole outcomes can impact a state’s prison population and costs.

Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

This course provides users with a practical introduction to the topic and importance of data quality. It discusses key concepts and offers clear exercises on accessing good data and evaluating the quality of data. Available in English and French.

• Civic data
• Online courses

Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Online courses

Individual modules Citizen-Centred Service Design Becoming Citizen-Centric Public Service Delivery Fundamentals Listening to and Understanding Citizens Continuous Service Improvement Becoming an Inclusive Leader Building Service Culture Effective Service Delivery Management

• trainings

• Govtech
• Online courses

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

Two courses - Understanding Citizen Journalism and Digital Disinformation and Journalistic Responsibilities

• Fight disinformation
• Courses
• Media literacy

In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Faced with the choice between privacy and safety on the Internet, between freely expressing themselves and the ethical use of information, the media and technology – women, men and young boys and girls need new types of competencies.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Online courses

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

• Fight disinformation
• Courses

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

• Courses
• Online courses

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

• trainings

• Engagement tech

Each of our lectures will explore one specific facet of bullshit. For each week, a set of required readings are assigned. For some weeks, supplementary readings are also provided for those who wish to delve deeper.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation

A free course sponsored by the Finnish government to demystify AI

• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

Civic Discourse is a platform that encourages conversation and discourse around policy issues that affect our communities and our nation.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

To collaborate with government clients to understand the problem space and develop real solutions.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

An online meeting place to discuss how to use civic technology to improve peoples' lives.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections

Platformable's Data Governance training products, resources and tools can help your organisation to build a comprehensive, automated, high quality data governance system.

• Data governance
• Online courses

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Social media
• Citizen Engagement

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs
• Innovation teams and labs

In a new series of blogs, Richard Pope looks at concrete examples of digital transparency, accountability and recourse from around the world.

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Identity

A curriculum for the Service Design 101 course with readings and case studies

• Courses
• Service delivery
• Reading lists

Digital certificates and badges are electronic credentials that validate the achievement of skills or completion of courses, often used in education, professional development, and online learning.

• commercial

Public Sector Network is a social learning platform that exists to help government around the globe break down silos, collaborate, and work together for better outcomes for citizens.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Courses
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• cities

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• cities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

We create engaging courses and events on topics that matter

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech

JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

2023 MOOC organized by Knight

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Online courses

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

Теплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses