Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.
In the context of increasingly complex challenges and unprecedented opportunities offered by technology, the MENA – OECD Working Group II on Open and Innovative Government supports MENA countries through regional exchange and dialogue to build public sectors that innovate, engage citizens, open up their data and information and follow the principles of digital and user-centred policy and service design.
The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.
PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.
The Energia Foundation's work centers around organizing large-scale demonstrations, experiences, and proof-of-concept installations that can easily translate into organized institutions to create long-lasting, sustainable change.
Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.
The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.
Our limited attention has become the most valuable resource on the internet and it is captured and manipulated via the rampant and unregulated collection of our personal data. This is surveillance capitalism at work - a relentless assault on our private data that provide intimate insights which are sold to the highest bidder, with next-to-no awareness or control.
We are told that having our data taken is the price we pay for the “free” use of digital services. But this system places the priorities of corporates ahead of the social good while it manipulates our social perspective, drives division and isolates us from each other.
There are few practical ways to opt out of the attention economy that depends on pervasive surveillance. And even if you manage to on an individual level, the real world impact of this data-driven social manipulation is impossible to avoid. Big Tech controls a global audience of billions with a market power that is unprecedented in the history of media. Yet they have almost no oversight and reject liability for the harms their products cause.
The Global Parliament of Mayors is an unprecedented new democratic global governance body by, for, and of cities: a global megaphone for a common urban voice and a global platform for common urban action.
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
GotToVote started off as a simple experiment to make data otherwise locked in government, useful to the general public.
When the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission released voter registration centres locations information in the 2013 Kenyan Elections, they made it available as a PDF on their otherwise always unavailable website.
This unprecedented ease of finding your registration centre spurred adoption of GotToVote's simple code in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Malawi. Code4Africa continues to this day in ensuring citizens get to the ballot box prepared by adding more arsenal of what GotToVote can offer and has grown to include Peace Messaging, Polling Results and Voter Registration Confirmation (VRC). In Kenya GotToVote deployment that focussed on making it easy to find your nearest registration center; In Malawi - the Malawi Government as their official platform, GotToVote was used for voter registration confirmation
"A tool to help Democratic campaigns sift through data on hundreds of millions of people across the U.S....It will help campaigns decide who to call, text, email and target with digital advertisements during this contentious and unprecedented election year and beyond."
Common Cause, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Protect the Vote is a national coalition of nonpartisan organizations focused on making sure everyone can vote. They have great volunteer opportunities across the country.
Civic Tech Field Guide