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Including key indicators of online violence escalation and how to systematically record digital threats
Guides.vote
United States of America (the)Guides.vote produces nonpartisan voters guides that show where candidates stand. They’re produced by veteran journalists with links to credible sources. Whether you vote by mail or head to the polls, our guides let you do it with confidence
Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab's Guidebook
When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results
Guide to organizational security
The Engine Room, Albany Street, London, UK
by @authoritycollective. Do No Harm
Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.
Digital Peacebuilder's Guide
Washington, DCWhether it’s hate speech in our social media or bringing together diverse groups for online training, digital tools can harm and help our peacebuilding initiatives.
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.
This guide aims to provide helpful tools and techniques for identifying LinkedIn profiles and for extracting information that will then allow you to pivot to other social media profiles belonging to the target.
A Practical Guide for Operationalising Access to Information Laws
A free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on user motivations, activities, and problems, by Jan Dittrich
Digital Policy Guide
United States of America (the)A Digital Servant's Guide to U.S. Federal Information Technology Law and Policy
The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.
Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?
Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.
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Disclosure logs: a best practice guide for local authorities [in the UK]
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandGuide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."
The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.
An open guide promoting participatory urban planning
E-Consultation Guide
Dublin, IrelandAn inactive wiki guide to e-consultation
What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance
OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
Paris, FranceThe OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.
Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.
“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.
Civic Tech Field Guide
LisbonThe Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.
Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation. This guide seeks to create an inclusive, collaborative approach to addressing misinformation around the world. While not every law contained here relates to misinformation specifically, they’ve all often been wrapped into that broader discussion. Article will be updated on an ongoing basis.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.
Part of the Data Detox Kit
Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.
A guide on how to manage technical debt in government software development projects.
The Pudding's clever visual essays present data in artistic and meaningfully interactive ways. Here they share "How to make dope shit", and other lessons.
City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide
New York CityThis guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.
Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
New York City, NY, USAA Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can. The approach can be used for any type of election: school board, local government, state government, national or otherwise. In order for newsrooms to adopt a new kind of thinking, process and behavior, it takes more than one passionate person to make lasting change happen. This readiness assessment is designed to give you a sense of how easy or difficult it might be to get a citizens agenda model deployed in your newsroom, so you can go in with eyes wide open around any challenges.
18F Modular Contracting guide
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAModular Contracting and Agile Development in government.
We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.
A People’s Guide to AI
4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201This 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.
A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically
The purpose of this guide is to standardise accessibility features and ensure accessibility compliance across Code for Africa’s projects. Please feel free to copy and adapt it for your organisation.
Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
US Digital Service Accessibility for Teams guide
United States of America (the)A guide to digital accessibility created by US Digital Services
Beat the supply-chain blues with our staff picks for affordable alternative presents — plus toys, treats and tools for the holiday season.
NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All. In order to meet that goal, we must examine our Data Dictionaries— the metadata we provide to all Open Data users. Well-written, user-friendly data dictionaries help users to become self-reliant, able to answer their own questions about a dataset without needing to contact an Open Data Coordinator for clarification. NYC Open Data partnered with the Metropolitan Library Council (METRO), Pratt Institute, Sloan Foundation, The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, Tiny Panther Consulting, New York Public Library, Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library to implement an initiative called Metadata for All in the Summer of 2018.
Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia
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