A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Academia
• Workshops

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech

Notwestminster 2025 is a free event that brings together people interested in improving local democracy in the UK

Limehouse Labs is a small collaborative workshop located in Limehouse Town Hall, London, that provides a workspace and equipment for people working on hardware, software, craft, and arts projects

This workshop aims to celebrate Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and explore approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship

Harmonica, an AI-powered tool for async multiplayer sensemaking workshops, has officially launched in early access

Summary of a Workshop on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management culminates phase 1 of the project

• books

Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research.

• workshops

• Social media

We partner with organizations that seek to empower lower income individuals through creative and interactive programming.

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Excel and Census Data Workshop Instructors Guide

• census

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Con i Laboratori potrai segnalare, creare e far votare proposte per il tuo quartiere: contattaci o vieni agli incontri, per lavorare insieme a tecnici del Comune di Bologna ed esperti di coprogettazione.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

• workshops
• Minecraft

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

The European Association for Algorithmic Fairness was founded in 2023 with the goal of fostering academic research and industrial implementation of algorithmic fairness of AI applications in the context of Europe and its legislative, societal, and cultural environment.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

• youth
• Global South Alliance
• human rights

• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy
• Digital rights

¡Atención, comunidad! 🎉 El Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI) celebra su 8º Aniversario y quiere festejarlo impulsando tus ideas. Por ello, lanza su Convocatoria Anual de Fondos para Eventos Comunitarios. Si tienes un proyecto para organizar una charla, un taller, un festival de cine o cualquier evento gratuito que beneficie a tu comunidad, ¡esta es tu oportunidad! La organización ofrece financiamiento de hasta 300$ y su asesoría para hacerlo realidad.

• Get funding

An Essay Series Part of the Democratic Legitimacy for AI Initiative

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact
• Fieldwide resources

We’re a small cryptoparty and cat-enthusiast collective. We’ve held digital security workshops all over NYC, including the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Bluestockings, and more over the years.

• workshops

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Ridiculously Hopeful Future: a bold, slightly wild, and very optimistic project to transform how government social safety net programs are designed.

• workshops
• state
• local

• Communicating with the people
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Civic imagination

Join the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop with Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, and Emillie de Keulenaar as they discuss their recent paper “Prosocial Media.”

Agency For Urban Change

• youth
• city
• place-based

• Participatory democracy
• User experience

by Rahul Bhargava

• books

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The IfG Academy provides practical training and support to those working in government, as well as those outside government who want to understand and engage with it

Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Curve is a series of free, 90-minute workshops for third sector organisations.

• trainings

• Learn about civic tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Digital transformation

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open source AI

The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

• workshops
• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Public Interest Tech

The Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit is an in-person mentoring event and workshop to inspire the next-generation of solvers in rural communities.

• rural

• In-person meetings
• Challenges

A grassroots interdisciplinary responsible AI lab for Africa and the Global South. Researching technical alignment and governance of AI.

• workshops

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.

• trees

• Mapping
• Mapping tools

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers

• books
• city

• Smart Cities and sensors

We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop from December 11-12, 2019, to discuss the suite of data products the Census Bureau will generate from the ...

• books
• census

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Open government data

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have opened up new markets and new opportunities for progress in critical areas such as health, education, energy, and the environment

• books

This report is based on the findings of the three-year project which examined the media's influence on the lives of young people throughout Europe

• books

This book investigates the ethical challenges the internet presents to contemporary parliamentary democracy in Europe and how these challenges are being addressed

• books

Using Technology to Empower Rural and urban last mile communities across Nigeria

• workshops
• rural

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Connectivity
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."

• workshops

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• In-person meetings

The question we seek to address is: can we use AI itself to help us design and build better institutions, which enhance human capabilities for collaborating, governing, and living together?

• workshops

• Artificial Intelligence

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Du möchtest selbst gifs entwerfen? Mehr zu rechten netzwerken und anti-feminismus im netz erfahren? Dann bist du bei uns richtig! In unseren workshops erfährst uns alles was du wissen musst, um hass, falschinformationen und demokratiefeindlichen aussagen im netz zu begegnen!

• youth
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Reports

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships