The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information. The map is part of the Media Deserts Project, a joint research project of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Department of Geography and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

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Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

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At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

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Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en

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More than a doc, Dropbox Paper is a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.

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A comprehensive look at the growing world of new mobility.

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The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

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Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

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Welkom op Apps For Ghent, de site voor de Gentse Open Data community. Dit is een samenwerking tussen de Stad Gent, Open Knowledge België en het Ghent Living Lab. Apps for Ghent wil via projecten, events en co-creatie het potentieel van open data in Gent maximaal benutten en de mogelijkheden ervan bij zoveel mogelijk mensen bekend maken.

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The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

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Learn more about the @casefoundation, where they invest in people & ideas that will change the world.

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New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

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We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

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NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

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An online forum for community discussion

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The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

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Citizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.

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The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.

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The Liane project is a box of technologies and methodologies open to promote political renewal campaigns in Latin America, which organizes the intelligence that has been produced in the field and provides digital technologies with the objective of increasing the competitiveness of low-cost and high-level electoral campaigns intensity.

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Taproot Foundation connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers through pro bono service.

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Infomocracy by Malka Older | Tor.com Publishing

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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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We’re excited to share our second annual list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.

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The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

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It reflects the discussions and proposals of dozens of people and collectives involved in the Digital Democracy and Data Commons participatory process.

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Welcome to the Ford Foundation. We envision a just, fair, and peaceful world with opportunity for all

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To collaborate with government clients to understand the problem space and develop real solutions.

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To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

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FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.

• mass transit
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The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

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Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

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Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

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A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

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• Artificial Intelligence

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What effect does bureaucratic responsiveness have on citizen participation?

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CityCamp Oakland. 211 likes. CityCamp Oakland is brought to you by OpenOakland

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Training and empowering young people to help them run for office in 2020

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We gather citizen voices to improve public services

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More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.

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Jsme komunita špičkových vývojářů, designérů a produkťáků, kteří chtějí ve svém volném čase pomáhat státu i nestátním organizacím a dělat tak Česko lepším místem k životu.

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NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

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Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

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Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

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A database of projects and organizations dedicated to fighting COVID-19

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Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

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