Civic Tech Field Guide

Facebook Digital Literacy Library

United States of America (the)

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

cities
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Academy of the Near Future

Dublin, Ireland

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

youth
local

Shared Digital Guides

48 organisations share 65 Guides to how they use digital tools to run their services and operations. You are free to copy and learn from what they've done.

Portugal Digital

Lisbon

Acelerar Portugal através da capacitação digital das pessoas, da transformação digital das empresas e da digitalização do Estado.

Examples of Civic Tech Communities-Governments Collaboration Around The World

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

reports

JAAKLAC iniciativa podcast

JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.

podcasts

Skills Wiki for New Government Hires

Aspen Institute, North 3rd Street, Aspen, CO, USA

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy

Georgia (US state)

Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.

Future of Privacy Forum Training Program

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.

trainings

Практика

Moscow

Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач

IFRC's Digital Transformation Playground

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

IPleak.net

Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them

Own Your Data Foundation

Wyoming

We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.

Data Activism program for Cambridge Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program

Cambridge, MA

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

Congressional App Challenge

740 15th St. NW Washington D.C.

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

Tech Lake City’ initiative

Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html

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City of Boston Digital Equity Assessment

1 City Hall Square, Boston, MA, United States

This study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities. This report also provides a high-level estimate of the cost of building a third competitive fiber network in the City, in addition to the residential services of Comcast and Verizon.

SocialTIC

South America

SocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital

The Turing Way

The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UK

Community-led guides for data science and open research

guides

TechImpact Technology Learning Center (formerly NPower)

United States of America (the)

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

trainings

No Minor Futures

No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.

youth

Data Playbook V1

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

MediaWise

The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.

Siberkreasi

Jakarta

SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.

FactBar

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

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Mozilla Web Literacy Framework

Mountain View, CA, USA

In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)

Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano Nigeria

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.

Observatorio Venezolano de Fake News

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The Venezuelan Fake News Observatory aims to educate and empower citizens in the face of a reality that is submerged daily in the misinformation produced, among other reasons, by the almost immediate viralization of falsified information that circulates, mainly, on social networks.

A Voter's Guide: 7 tips to detox your data

Part of the Data Detox Kit

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The Influence Industry Project

Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.

Center on Rural Innovation

Vermont

As strategists, advocates, connectors, and champions, we collaborate with members of our Rural Innovation Network to launch initiatives and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and tech job creation in the places they call home.

Digital literacy

All In: Data for Community Health

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

Apolitical Microcourses

London

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

The Deepfake Lab

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

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The Future Society

Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

Tech Goes Home

TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers. Last year: 3,640+ graduates report that they learned skills that can help improve their lives 1,150+ children are better able to do schoolwork online because of TGH 2,530+ graduates have used their TGH device and digital skills for their health and wellness Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives.

Digital literacy

Code for Nepal

Nepal

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

A guide to the news company's data usage

Ada Developers Academy

Seattle, WA, United States of America

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

A People’s Guide to AI

4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

AI Myths

With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.