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Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime
"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.
Hâck The Hague
The Hague, NetherlandsThe municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.
Курсы
MoscowТеплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений
Практика
MoscowТеплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач
A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech
Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online
A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type
Apolitical's Community Questions & Answers forum
The Conduit, 40 Conduit Street, London W1S 2YQ, England, UKAsk and answer the questions that matter to you as a public servant. Learn, share and connect.
Rightly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
Agami
BangaloreAgami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India
Eye In The Sky
PortugalUsing High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
Justice Hub
BangaloreAn open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.
CivicDataLab
India (Bhārat)We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
A space for policymakers, tech companies and web users to shape a safer, more empowering web.
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.
Niji eco-design site concept
FranceUsers choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
CommunityX
Chicago, ILCreate and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.
Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy
San FranciscoOur new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.
Beyond Binary Code Builder
New ZealandCode and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Common Voice
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAMozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
Decriminalize Poverty
TennesseeThis narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.
Democracy Decoded
Washington, DCPodcast of the Campaign Legal Center
DataMéxico
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoDataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.
HetzJaeger
Germany (Deutschland)A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
Seekr
Vienna, VANews site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly
Name Reclaim
CanadaReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health.
A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison
Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.
A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.
"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
The Chinese Internet’s Hidden Victims: Uncovering and Healing the Scars of Online Abuse
Washington, DCA special feature on cyberbullying by 歪脑 WHYNOT, nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Walking Tour
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USATomiko Brown-Nagin, chair of the Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, introduces you to the Initiative's work and this tour.
Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.
Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award
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