Discover how your MP votes on the issues that matter to you.

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

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• Walking tours

• books

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• Books

NextRequest provides easy-to-use FOIA and public records software. Local and state governments across the U.S. rely on our FOIA software to track their agency's records requests. Try NextRequest for free!

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• Freedom of Information

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

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• Get funding

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• Media
• Games and gamification

Building Free Technology Tools for We, The People

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

An easy-install kit to help commercial buildings cut energy costs.

• buildings
• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).

• guides

• Participatory budgeting
• SMS tools

A living-learning community at the University of Maryland based on instilling civic engagement

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• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

Søk blant 1245 datasett, 19 API-er, 179 begreper og 534 informasjonsmodeller

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• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Kumpulan cerita tentang orang, studi kasus, penelitian kami, dan wajah kota yang selalu berubah yang Anda jalani. // Qlue is a crowd-sourcing smartphone app where the users can report various incidents such as flooding, crime, fires or waste-related issues.

• apps
• cities

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• Govtech

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• Online forums

Plznito

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.

• Wikipedia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

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• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Building relationships between government and citizens, and interested in how new technologies could enable better services, communication and accountability

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

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• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

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• Courses

The Digital Service Standard is a set of best-practice principles for designing and delivering government services. It helps digital teams to build services that are simple, clear and fast.

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• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

• Google

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

TGL is committed to giving voice to underrepresented public interests and bringing more citizens into the public policy process.

• Advocacy tech
• Help out
• Civic literacy

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

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• COVID

La www.piatadespaga.ro afli unde se rezolvă lucrurile fără șpagă, unde e mai ieftin sau, cel puțin, cât costă, să nu cumva să plătești mai mult decât face :-)

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation focusing on EBT Food Stamps.

• apps

• Access social benefits

This website collects and verifies fake news reports.

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• Media
• Fight disinformation

A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate.

• Reddit

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

What we stand for: a just democracy, a fair economy and an environmentally sustainable future.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A mentoring app connecting new and former members of Congress

• trainings

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• The People
• Govtech

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

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• Govtech
• Building inside government

U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

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• Participatory democracy

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

With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.

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• Media

Connecting brands and consumers

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• Foundational layers
• Advertising

Emoji as public awareness

• Externalities of tech
• Media and social media analysis

GoGetta has New York’s most up-to-date service information on food, personal care, shelter, and clothing.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Developed by the non-profit Cortico, the Local Voices Network (LVN) is a unique physical-digital network designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue.

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• Media
• Engagement tech

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

• curricula
• women
• Gender Equality

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Empowers users to discover issues and trends within their district’s boundaries.

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking

• LINE

• Fight disinformation
• Emerging tech
• Factchecking

Clear Ballot is re-imagining elections with the world's most innovative and transparent voting system.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• cities

Crash Data Explorer is an open source analysis and engagement tool for urban pedestrian and bike safety.

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools