Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

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Code For Boulder lies within the intersection of tech, data, and community engagement. Boulder is a vibrant city; we join up with local government, non-profits, and community organizers to help bring out the best in the place we call home.

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Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database. It is a collaborative digital platform that aims to record the incidence of shootings and the prevalence of armed violence in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and Recife.

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International community of policymakers, service designers, digital people & others working to reform government and make public services better

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PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

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The list contains relevant articles for anyone interested in understanding the space of technological solutions to societal, governmental, and society-government interface problems.

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Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

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ControlShift is a set of web tools that helps your organization build community, leadership, and real power among your members.

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Measure air quality yourself

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This is a blog about how the civic tech and accountability field measures its work and its impact.

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Civic Seed is on online multi-player RGP to prepare college students for community service work that is now an integral ...

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The encyclopedia of American politics

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A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

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The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

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The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) requires all government-produced digital products, including websites and applications, to be consistent, modern, and mobile-friendly.

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The aim of the festival is to strengthen understanding of the role of citizen engagement across the policy cycle.

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Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

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The App was designed on the basis of good governance. Municipalities are the closest form of government to the people – Let’s Talk bridges the gap between elected officials local government sphere with their respective constituencies. The effective and efficient rolewithin the to believe in the idea of a social contract, its institutions and rules. – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens,and transparency – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens, through the ballot, are the ones the authorise politicians to assume public offices, as such, they must be accountable to them; transparency meaning the knowledge of what government officials are doing and how money is being spent amongst others. This is the type of accountability and transparency the Let’s Talk App envisages.

Technology at work for the public

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Established in 1966, the Fellows Program is a cornerstone of Institute life and the only program of its kind at Harvard University or anywhere else. An IOP Fellowship offers the rare opportunity for professionals in politics and public service to spend a semester at Harvard sharing their experiences with students and exploring important public issues with a distinguished

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An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

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Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments

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Medsaf is a curated medication marketplace for African hospitals and pharmacies.

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Tired of paper & pen checklists, shift notes, and log books? Join 1000s of restaurants nationwide and streamline your food safety & quality with our mobile app!

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We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

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How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes

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All The Data, For We The People

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We, the undersigned cities, formally come together to form the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, to protect and uphold human rights on the internet at the local and global level.

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MeMeZa Shout Crime Prevention was started in 2012 and it specializes in providing affordable innovative Connected Community Safety Technology, with a special focus on the most vulnerable people in society.

The Veza online tool is an open data platform developed by Corruption Watch with the goal of improving transparency and accountability in the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Internet insights for social good

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Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winners ... Read More

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the official public purchasing information portal on open procurement in Ukraine

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In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

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The UK’s street fault reporting website (rebranded as FixMyCommunity)

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Knight Foundation is inviting nominations for its inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellowship.

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Code for Poland

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Each hackathon will challenge young tech developers to identify prototype solutions to challenges in Ethiopia.

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Open Data meets Liquid Democracy

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A new political party for for the UK

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This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

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Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.

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Is the City Support Programme (CSP) of National Treasury initiative to help cities improve their governance performance, with a particular focus on land development and infrastructure development. The project will provide cities with perspectives for understanding their governance challenges related to land and infrastructure development, a framework for assessment and a range of tools that help improve integrity, social accountability and transparency performance and unlock solutions to often complex problems. the project focuses on three key work areas/themes:Integrity, Social Accountability and Smart Governance

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An Evaluation of Digital Gaming Platforms on Civic Capacity and Collective Action in the Boston Public School District

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Its a free emergency app that connects South Africans to safety just by a press of a button which tells operators who you areand where you are. GPS technology means Namola can pinpoint your location to help emergency services reach you faster. It assists Neighbourhood Watches and Community Policing Forums keep their communities safe allowing them to receive alerts of incidents

GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

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the first and only Multi-Stakeholder Question & Answer Community for refugee topics

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OpenBlock is a web application and RESTful service that allows users to browse and search their local area for "hyper-local news

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Validated Real Time Information

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