Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE

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Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

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• Funders & donors

Sketch City is an open community of 2,700+ technology and data advocates. We work on projects, share knowledge, influence tech policy, and produce events.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Predictwise is a powerful data, analytics, research, and survey platform that can generate customized, granularized insights on any voter in any district in the country.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

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dBunk(r) unlocks a user’s potential to share in the world’s deepest knowledge, clearest observations, and brightest thoughts.

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Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

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• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

Making Public Information, Public Knowledge

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investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

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I’ve been working on organizing some departmental knowledge at CMS, and our human-centered design team – the crew that promotes design thinking and helps other teams build better, more user-focused products and processes1 – recommended that my first step be to get teams to make directories.

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The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• Bots
• COVID Engagement Projects

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

• apps

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• Civic data
• Media

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

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• Digital security and privacy

The 9 elected Brigade members "represent the needs, ideas, and goals of all the Brigades and strengthen the network and community."

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A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.

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• Govtech

Subscribe to curated findings and actionable knowledge from The Living Library, delivered to your inbox every Friday

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The knowledge hub for start-ups and SME’s

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By receiving, storing and analyzing flight data, the boards of the country's 17 airports and calculating flight delays help passengers make a data-driven choice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

• Adjacent Fields
• Mapping
• Civic maps

iCivics 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

• youth

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Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work

• Climate action

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If knowledge is a door to information, data is the key. When you’re talking about politics and government, information is extremely important to those who are making decisions on who to vote for and what legislation to get behind or block.

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• Engagement tech

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Uses a mix of cutting edge technologies including 3D modeling, data mining, machine learning, pattern analysis, and virtual reality, to conduct independent investigations into human rights abuses and police killings

• human rights

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media
• Mapping platforms

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

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a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

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• Media

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

It looks like the end of the road for a site that offered what was once cutting-edge access to Web-based data visualization.

• IBM

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• Data visualization

We help impact ventures from CEE grow their business, providing them with knowledge, skills, access to investors and a pool of committed capital.

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The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge.

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

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• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech
• Budget explorers

At Echo&Co, we don’t just sprinkle digital technology on top of social missions. As a digital practice, we pay attention to users and learn how they want to engage. Armed with that knowledge, we help our clients create user experiences that strengthen organizations, spur citizen engagement, improve communities, and make governments more effective.

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Code for All Global Summit

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Neighborhood Knowledge Platform

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The App was designed on the basis of good governance. Municipalities are the closest form of government to the people – Let’s Talk bridges the gap between elected officials local government sphere with their respective constituencies. The effective and efficient rolewithin the to believe in the idea of a social contract, its institutions and rules. – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens,and transparency – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens, through the ballot, are the ones the authorise politicians to assume public offices, as such, they must be accountable to them; transparency meaning the knowledge of what government officials are doing and how money is being spent amongst others. This is the type of accountability and transparency the Let’s Talk App envisages.

Empowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence

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• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

Haki Law App intends to make knowledge about laws easily accessible. The mobile application provides legalinformation and connects citizens to lawyers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

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• Emerging tech
• Bots

We’re tracking the progress of 60 pledges Trump made in his “Contract with the American Voter” – and whether he achieved his goals.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

A biotech makerspace located in a rural community.

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• Citizen science
• Open science

Find great local banks and invest in growing your community. Our interactive map and bank report cards arm you with knowledge you need to make the right choice.

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• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

DataViva is opening up data for the entire formal sector of the Brazilian economy through more than 1 billion interactive visualizations.

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• Data visualization

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

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• Civic data

GSA launched the U.S. Federal Blockchain program for federal agencies and U.S. businesses who are interested in exploring distributed ledger tech.

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• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

the easiest way to find local freelancers

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• Find a job or hire someone

It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.

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• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Cutting edge software & mobile apps to help you manage any type of campaign. Turn Voters into Votes.

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• Advocacy tech
• SMS tools