The skill-sharing network for government & civic innovators worldwide

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
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Beacon makes it easy for you to take action on the issues that you care about.

• apps

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• Advocacy tech
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Tech volunteers and activists.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Pro bono and volunteer

As a Code for America Brigade, we're part of a national network of civic-minded volunteers who contribute their skills toward using the web as a platform for local government and community service.

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• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.

• indigenous

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

We're a bunch of civic-minded technologists, designers, and topic experts using our skills to improve Atlanta and the world.

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• Civic hacking meetups

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

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• Media
• Games and gamification

Volunteer with us and use your research, mapping and digital skills to support humanitarian agencies in crisis response.

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• Civic data
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Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Digital Woman Uganda is a Civic-tech and Digital Rights Advocacy organization – operating an ICT powered model to extend the literacy and skills of an eco-system economy that the world currently operates in to a woman/ girl child. Preparing the African woman/ girls to be able to be competitive and self-sustaining in the Digital World

The Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), as a non-governmental organization has been formed in June 2018 as a progression of the three successful projects named; Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), Data Zetu and Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge (DLIIC). Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives. The program works with communities across Tanzania to discover issues that matter most to them. Then we work with stakeholders to arm them with skills and tools to make sense of data related to those challenges. As a result, we’re helping to foster the use of open data that is relevant, hyperlocal, and actionable

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

Unlock Collective Action

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• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Ask a favour, give a favour, earn a Fava Connecting to others in your neighbourhood by sharing time, skills, and everyday items...

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• Engagement tech
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Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work

• Climate action

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• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

We help impact ventures from CEE grow their business, providing them with knowledge, skills, access to investors and a pool of committed capital.

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• Build something
• Accelerators

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

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• In-person meetings

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Be an SF Hero by being prepared for an emergency, getting involved in your community, learning new skills, and more...Your friends will be impressed!

• apps
• disasters

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• Media
• Graveyard

The page uses search terms, surfaced through the research, to find job postings using that language via Indeed.

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• Graveyard
• Job boards

Technology at work for the public

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• Learn about civic tech
• Get funding

the easiest way to find local freelancers

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• Graveyard
• Find a job or hire someone

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

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• Books

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Foundational layers

Astraea’s CommsLabs is a radical global movement-building initiative that equips LGBTQI activists with the tools, skills and knowledge they need to securely organize and advocate in online spaces.

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• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

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• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

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• The People
• Govtech

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

• trainings

Public Innovation

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Open innovation

DebateArt is a unique and growing community committed to the idea of exchanging views and perspectives through debating.

• Civic forums
• Debate

Join us at CampaignCon 2017, a Global technology and activism skillshare near Johannesburg on 7-9 November 2017

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

It is a collective of people using their skills to create things for the public good. Sometimes this involves tech, sometimes community organising, sometimes it's just talking about and understanding a problem from different points of view.

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• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

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• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

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.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

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• Build something
• Building inside government

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

OurGoods is a resource sharing network for the creative community. Our members trade skills, spaces and objects to get their work done without money. We run live events, a facebook group, and a newsletter.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Voter assistance tech

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

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• Data science for social good
• Fellowships