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RHoK Australia runs weekend hackathons in summer and winter every year. These happen simultaneously in five different locations across Australia. Over the course of 48 hours, teams assemble around our changemakers to work fast and furious, have fun, and create real social impact. It's an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment to help create innovative technology solutions to social problems.
Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.
Tempo – Time Credits
15 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ, UKWe co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.
International School for Transparency
Vilnius, LithuaniaINTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International
School For Change was an online school for changemakers
A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.
A professional development course for election officials
iCivics
1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USAiCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
Facebook Civic Engagement team
Palo AltoA team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting
The Ability Programme exists to advocate for the rights of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as well as SDGs 10 and 11. The aim of the programme is to show the challenges in bite-size chunks surrounding accessibility, or lack thereof, in the Nairobi CBD in order to prompt the start of a much wider discourse about sustainable solutions. Ability seeks to use data to eradicate the discrimination and inequities faced by PWDs in three main focus areas: Accessibility, behaviour and Citizen awareness
Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.
Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community
Wikilegis
Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, BrazilLets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses
Professional development courses for election officials
Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.
Select your state, make sure you're registered to vote, then choose how you're going to vote this year. Built by the Democrats.
Reboot
49 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USAReboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
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.
Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.
Open Hub
78 Susan Drive, Newburgh, NY, USATech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley
City of Buffalo Data 101
Buffalo, NYData 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURS
"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"
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.
PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.
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.
The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).
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.
The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.
Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.
Citizen interaction design
Michigan, USAin which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.
Senseable Cities
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science
Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.
Promptable helps students in further education (FE) to succeed in their courses by helping colleges to deliver a proven support programme to their students.
Obama for America's organizing trainings
Chicago, ILMost of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.
Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.
MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.
Expressão
Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazila modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives
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