Civic Tech Field Guide
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Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.
Town+Gown
New York CityCreated in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment. Town+Gown is also an open platform research program that uses service (experiential) learning and faculty-directed research to facilitate partnerships between academics and practitioners on applied built environment research projects through the collaborative inquiry model of systemic action research.
Down for the Cause works to unpack various social issues and highlight the work that is being done by incredible people and organizations. DFTC aims to create a community committed to sustainable social change.
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.
Confirmado
GuatemalaGuatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.
Don’t let your opposition take you by surprise. View broadcast data from all 210 media markets and monitor creative messaging and trends in real time. by Advertising Analytics
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.
The City Fellowship at Company Ventures
New York CityThe public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, Florida, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
A collection of 232 resources for political progressives
Audit Law Database
United States of America (the)The Audit Law Database describes state laws, regulations and procedures for post-election audits in states across the country.
Data Collaboratives for Local Impact
Washington, DCLEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES
chengdupb.net (e管家)
ChengduChinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices
Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.
Foundation for Public Code's livestream show and podcast
The Anti-Corruption Data Collective brings together leading journalists, data analysts, academics and policy advocates to expose transnational corruption flows and push for policy change using the advocacy reach of ACDC partners. The Collective draws from experts and participating organizations with on-the-ground networks of local non-profit partners and journalists in more than 100 countries around the world. We leverage both data and expertise to target specific vehicles for hiding and laundering ill-gotten gains. Our specific aim in 2021 is to expose wrongdoing and risk areas in the real estate and private investment industries within target jurisdictions. Our investigations can then be used as a platform for advocating for relevant changes in law and practice by our advocacy partners.
The United Nations Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities.
The Government We Need is a podcast exploring the government of the future and how it can best serve everyone.
Monocole 24: The Urbanist
Marylebone, London, UKWith an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.
Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!
Fake News Cleaner
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)News is everywhere, Check whether it is true or false; There is a responsibility to protect children and grandchildren, Aichuan will fax! // 新聞消息四處是， 是真是假查詳細； 保護子孫有責任， 愛傳就要傳真ㄟ！
Credibility Coalition Partners with Jigsaw
New York CityThe Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.
It is to analyze what is wrong with democracy and spark conversations about how to fix it.
Red Blue Voice
Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaRed Blue Voice was a social network providing users with tools to broadcast their social and political messages.
Memria
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USAMEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.
Nokaneng App (Gender Links)
LesothoGL is well known for championing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, and coordinating an Alliance of over 40 women’s NGOs that campaigned for the adoption and implementation of the Protocol, following its 2016 revision that was adopted by the SADC 36th Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mbabane, Swaziland. The revised SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the Beijing Declaration and its Platform of Action, The Maputo Protocol and the Agenda 2063 among other gender norms and standards.
RideShare2vote provides full training for drivers regarding voter laws as well as implementing CDC guidelines regarding masks, sanitizing before and after completing rides and social distancing with only one rider in the back seat.
A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.
Tech for Good
14-22 Elder Street, London E1 6BT, United KingdomWe shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.
How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.
Project Open Data (Obama Administration)
United States of America (the)Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset
Cities of the Future
10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, USAEach episode explores one idea or innovation that will transform cities.
CallHub
CaliforniaReach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.
Cities benefit from open dockless data
Washington, DCA dockless bike and scooter pilot in Washington DC that provides ridership information and more data to help plan a more integrated transportation system.
Carrotmob is a new way to influence businesses. We spend money as a group, and in return businesses take socially-responsible actions we care about.
Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview
Portland, ORA platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints
The GDELT Project
Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United StatesMonitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world
Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.
Tech for Good Live
Manchester, United KingdomChampioning the ethical use of technology
A podcast on breakthroughs in public service 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.
Uber data-sharing with governments
Uber HQ, Market Street, San Francisco, CA, USAThe ride-hailing company is working with DC to share data—and the much coveted curb.
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.
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.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
80,000 PEOPLE. U STREET. SATURDAY, MAY 12 Funk Parade is a one-of-a-kind day fair, parade and music festival, celebrating Washington DC's vibrant music and arts, the U Street neighborhood, and the Spirit of Funk that brings us all together.
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