A podcast on breakthroughs in public service technology.

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Dialectic.sg: Better debates for a better Singapore. Learn more about and discuss important policies facing us today.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Policy Development based on Advanced Geospatial Data Analytics and Visualisation

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Government Digital Service podcast looks at innovation and digital transformation across the public sector. We’ll interview interesting people both inside and outside government and cover new developments as they happen.

• podcasts

• The People
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• Build something

Canvassing & voter management software

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Welcome to your 8-day data detox! In just half an hour or less per day, you'll be well on your way to a healthier and more in-control digital self. What are you waiting for?

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

SeamlessGov empowers governments to go paperless and deliver better online services to citizens and staff through an innovative suite of tools including an intuitive online form builder.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

We’re excited to share that over the next year, we’ll be carrying out a new research initiative looking at how UK charities re-use existing digital tools for service delivery.

• reuse

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects

Designing a more equitable world

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Parks and trails are a cornerstone of public health and quality of life. The Open Trail System Specification (OpenTrails) helps citizens get outdoors to enjoy them.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

See if you qualify for support with food, cash & more. Answer a few questions and get help in under 5 minutes.

• Access social benefits

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A collectivized document of mutual aid projects and resources.

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

Technology at work for the public

• The People
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"Honour a financial services or technology organisation for its outstanding contribution to a charitable cause, for example, through funds donated, services offered pro-bono, or a creative volunteer programme"

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

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

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Real science we can do together. Join a #citizenscience project (we feature 2500+).

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Civic tech catalogs

Emilia Romagna's Regional law on participation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Tools

Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Legal Aid Checker provides a guided pathway to information about common legal issues.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

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

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Le collectif Regards Citoyens est une association constituée de citoyens de tous âges et régions, tous bénévoles, qui se sont rencontrés sur Internet dans un désir commun de proposer un accès simplifié au fonctionnement de nos institutions démocratiques à partir des informations publiques.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Nesta is an innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Get funding

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

• taxes

• The People
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• Organize campaigns

Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.

• development

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

“Salzburg macht auf!” Das Land Salzburg stellt unter Open Government Data (OGD) bestehende Verwaltungsdaten zur freien Wiederverwendung und Weiterverwertung zur Verfügung.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Here we discuss two pillars of a Citizens’ Assembly website: its design and editorial principles; and the information that should be included.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

All The Data, For We The People

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic hacking meetups

Professional development courses for election officials

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• Courses

Neighborhood Knowledge Platform

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Fired Without Cause helps users understand whether their employer treated them fairly. The app also has a severance pay calculator.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Voting Information Project helps voters find information about their elections with collaborative, open-source tools.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

• Google

• The People
• Build something
• Civic features

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.

• cities
• manifestos

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

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).

Welcome, friends.

• Civic and social impact companies

Mit dem Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen unterstützen Wikimedia Deutschland, der Stifterverband und die VolkswagenStiftung Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler dabei, ihre Forschung und Lehre offen zu gestalten

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone

Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

From Social Movement to Moral Market

• Organize campaigns
• Predecessors

Pavilion builds technology that empowers public servants to deliver better, faster public services from a wider and more diverse group of businesses.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech