Civic Tech Field Guide
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Genomic Data Commons
United States of America (the)
The California Report Card was developed by the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Office of Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom. The California Report Card explores how smartphones and networks can enhance communication between the public and government leaders.
Researchers used satellite and cell phone data to map how malaria spreads throughout Namibia and show where elimination efforts have the greatest impact.
UNDP Accelerator Labs
Level 21, One United Nations Plaza, New York NY 10017We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.
Solutions Through rigorous research and strategic partnerships, the Institute empowers media makers, studios, and industry leaders
This repository is designed to be a public, forkable, pull-requestable repository for standardized data schemas for use in Socrata’s open government applications as well as your own.
A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.
Are you a Democratic woman who wants to run for office? Our candidate training programs prepare women to run and win. Let us help you!
Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.
Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.
Citizens Watch
NigeriaThe Citizens' Watch is a promise tracker that is designed to empower citizens with the digital tools and information that enables them to track, rate and publish the most significant promises of politicians, in a bid to promote public accountability and participatory governance
Health Forward Foundation
2300 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, USAHealth Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (HCF) is a non-profit established in 2002 to eliminate barriers and promote quality health care for uninsured.
En el mundo, todo evoluciona, incluso, en el área de la seguridad.
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.
The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.
Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...
Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies
Code for Ibaraki
Ibaraki Prefecture, JapanIt is a non-profit voluntary organization whose base is Ibaraki Prefecture (we call it a community). Code for Ibaraki's
NNIP Catalog of data trainings
The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USAThis catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.
Code for Sacramento
Sacramento, California, USAWe connect civic technologists with project leaders who have ideas for community solutions.
Chicago Cityscape shows where development is happening by combining data from dozens of sources.
Public Interest Technology Summit
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Public Interest Technology Summit is the evolution of the Alumni Digital Summit hosted last October in collaboration with Alumni Relations.
StoryCorps
80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, New York 11217, USATo preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world
Movilizatorio
BogotáSomos un laboratorio de participación ciudadana e innovación social en Colombia incubado por Purpose. Citizen participation and social innovation lab for Colombia and Latin America.
The Federal Spending Transparency GitHub page is a space for stakeholders inside and outside government to stay informed on Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) Implementation
Rethink Aadhaar listserv
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaA group for people critically following the Aadhaar/UID project in India.
An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor
New Media Ventures
San FranciscoNew Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.
Data Zetu Intiaitive
United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
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Crowd Counting Consortium
United States of America (the)A public interest project to document crowds and contention in the United States.
A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
MassachusettsIn this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.
Ki Mit Tud
Hungary (Magyarország)Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.
Apolitical’s Future Skills Tracker is a quick, easy tool you can use to work out which are your strongest abilities — and which you should focus on for development to future-proof your career.
Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, 10179 Berlin, Germanywe are what we create together
Grantnav
360Giving, York Way, London, UKSearch, explore and download UK grant data from funders publishing open data to the 360Giving Standard.
Civic Sundays
United States of America (the)Progressive election action. Postcarding, phone and text banking, voter registration, canvassing. Every Sunday.
Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.
Cobi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.
Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.
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