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Political Arena
United States of America (the)Political Arena is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power where no two playthroughs are the same. Create your own politician and seek fame or infamy in a fully simulated political world, complete with high stakes campaign strategizing, backroom deals, scandals, special interests, and the press. Be the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective
We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.
Infrastructure Space
Manchester, United KingdomInfrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.
DDP is an open-source data pipeline platform to tackle data ingestion, storage and transformation that can be used by NGOs to drive actionable insights
A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered
OpenNorth's Data Quality course
Montreal, QC, CanadaThis course provides users with a practical introduction to the topic and importance of data quality. It discusses key concepts and offers clear exercises on accessing good data and evaluating the quality of data. Available in English and French.
Living-in.EU
EstoniaJoin us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans
Merit
Bay Area, California, USAThe Merit Data Platform connects organizations and people on a flexible HIPAA and SOC2 compliant knowledge graph.
Nidaa
Khartoum, Sudan"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."
Diia Digital country
UkraineUkrainian digital government app
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
United States of America (the)by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka
Raval data commons
Barcelona, SpainDeveloping a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
Red Hook Hub
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.
Lestvica Transparentnosti
SloveniaIn cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities.
Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.
Alliance of Civic Technologists (ACT)
United States of America (the)ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.
The Centre for Civic Innovation
Sydney NSW, AustraliaWhat would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
A free climate job board with 10,000+ jobs from more than 800+ companies across industries and geographies!
by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.
Israel Tech Policy Institute
Tel Aviv, IsraelTech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.
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OpenBook
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.
In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change.
The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).
Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Mapping can help change this.
Democracy Defenders Accelerator
EstoniaDemocracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.
Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.
Smart Futures Lab
DenverPowered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.
A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub
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Israel"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Namma Mahiti Kendras
BangaloreIT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.
UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.
The People’s Database for Community-Based Police Accountability
Berkeley, CA, USAA Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative
SPRIN-D
BerlinThe Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.
Custodianship in the Urban Commons
Boston, MABARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.
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