AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

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Digital twin - Virtual Singapore is a 3D digital replica of Singapore built on topographical as well as real-time, dynamic data.

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

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a next-generation urban planning tool

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• Smart Cities and sensors

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

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• Data science for social good
• Challenges

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

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• Civic data
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MetroQuest is public involvement software with a track record of award-winning planning projects. Engage thousands, gain insight, build community support.

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• Govtech
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Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

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Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

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• Civic apps outfits

Reach Planetizen's massive audience of planners, designers, architects, developers, academics, and other professionals who are working with the built environment.

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• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

We developed the Community Maturity Model™ (CMM) to help organizations understand, plan for and assess the performance of community and social business initiatives.

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Towards better use of development resources. Find out, follow, press forward.

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• Open data publishing portals

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

Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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• Courses

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

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• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The ride-hailing company is working with DC to share data—and the much coveted curb.

• Uber

• Data science for social good
• Urban planning

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

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• Participatory democracy

Hundreds of public agencies around the world use Strava Metro to evaluate and improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Strava

• health
• Good health and well-being

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• Urban planning

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• cities
• urban planning

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The Vanguard conference is an experiential urban leadership gathering of rising urban leaders working to improve cities across sectors, including urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media. By selection only.

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• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone

Community PlanIt is an online game platform that fosters deliberation and civic participation in planning processes to e...

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• Media
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Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

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• urban planning

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

Envisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.

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• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports. Ma3Route aims to make traveling easier in developing countries by democratizing timely transport information. We hope to bring greater sanity to the roads and inform city planning and transport regulation in emerging economies through the provision of transport data and trend analysis.

A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

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Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

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• Urban planning

The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.

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• News and blogs

When the path to social impact is unclear…we help you measure it

• Civic and social impact companies
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Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

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• Organize campaigns

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

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• urban planning

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• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

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• Get funding
• Challenges

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

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• Build something
• Govtech vendors

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

• cities
• streetscape

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• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

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• Media
• Civic data

The Kenya Open Data is a portal that makes public Government datasets accessible for free to the public in easy reusable formats.

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Open government data

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

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• Participatory democracy