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

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

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

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
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Excel and Census Data Workshop Instructors Guide

• census

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

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.

• cities

• 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

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Academia
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Civil society research outfits
• Research and policy centers

No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Podcasts
• Digital literacy

We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.

• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital literacy
• Data activism

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A training workshop curriculum on how to set up an online support network, create textual and visual counterspeech content, and deploy a counterspeech campaign.

• hate speech
• trainings
• women

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Indicators

Visualizing climate change

• Climate action
• Clean water and sanitation

• Artistic interventions

Liberating Knowledge for Opportunities

• Open knowledge
• Civic apps outfits

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Mapping
• Data visualization

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

This year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!

• Meet the others
• Conferences

parCitypatory is a blog, but also a consultancy happy to advise you on urban planning and citizen participation issues. I organise workshops with participatory methods, help you with the project management of urban planning programmes and support the communication of your and your community’s idea. To hire me as a consultant, please get in touch with [email protected]! And if you like my writing, hire me as a writer on all things urban via Texts and the City.

Meeting of the Minds is a global thought leadership network and knowledge sharing platform focused on urban sustainability. Meeting of the Minds brings together leaders from multiple sectors and diverse geographies to share ideas and work together to shape a common agenda. Events include monthly webinars, in-person workshops, pop-up events and an annual summit held each fall.

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Fellowships
• Connectivity
• Data science for social good

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Katiba Institute works to achieve social transformation in Kenya through the Constitution. It uses research, collaborative workshops on constitutional issues, public interest litigation, and advocacy to achieve economic and social progress for all Kenyans through full implementation of the Constitution.

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

An Adhocracy-powered engagement campaign for Berlin. Kooperativer Ideenworkshop Zur Zukunft Des Wohnens

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A speculative story sprint collection

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Civic fiction

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

These events join New Yorkers of all ages to test and give feedback on technologies aimed at improving quality of life and City services.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something