Learn about civic tech
This category collects different learning resources about civic tech. You can find from blogs that explain how to enhance the relationship between people and governments to podcasts and films on how humanitarian organizations are responding to crises. The collection also includes books, newsletters, research, catalogs, reports, and information about courses, trainings, and workshops.
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The state of Civic Tech Research in Africa: An Evidence Map
The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civi...
Critical Infrastructure Lab
the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.
Master on Artificial Intelligence for Public Services (AI4Gov)
A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Smart Cities Certificate
The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of em...
Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
The Role of Community Engagement in Urban Innovation Towards the Co-Creation of Smart Sustainable Cities
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city de...
Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database
"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."
Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation
"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes...
Democracy Labs
DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.
The Voices of Public Interest Technology podcast
In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, t...
Civic Tech Field Guide (CTFG)
The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Hub for Civic Tech Impact
The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and...
The Cato Institute
Libertarian think tank conducting research and advocacy on public policy issues.
Advocacy Assembly
Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.
Power Play: An HistorioGraphic about Womxn and Urban Renewal by Okki Berendschot
by Okki Berendschot
Socks Talk Politics
“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.
Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizati...
The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy
How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi
ONTRaC Learning Management System
This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network
CIPESA
ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa
Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and e...
SALTO Resource pool
A collection of 700+ resources targeted at EU youth
Civic Tech Impact Tracker
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
100 FAQs on Civic Tech, Citizen Participatory Technology, and everything in between
An extensive explainer of the civic tech field
Civic Tech, Qualitative Research Career, & Service and Trauma Informed Design Resources
This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.
New_ Public
New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.
PubinTech Project Map
Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.
Academia de Innovación Política
La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y he...
The @CivicWhitaker Anthology: Three Years of Organizing, Writing, and Documenting in Chicago Civic Tech
By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill
2019 Digital Tools for Trade Unions Report
This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
AI Resources
An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
A Lever and a Place to Stand: How Civic Tech Can Move the World
This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.
A+ Alliance
A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system...
Abierto al publico
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
Aftershot
An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.
ActionBound
Take people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
(Mis)informed
The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
The Reporters’ Lab
The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about tru...
AI Now Institute
The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative and Distributed Governance
A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)
City Resilience Index
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
AI for Good Foundation
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
Guide to Digital Participation Platforms
When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results
The Urban Institute
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
Shareable
Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up...
The 100 Questions Initiative
A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.
Code for Japan's Civitan Civic Tech Explainer
のびしろ、おもしろっ。シビックテック - シビックテックの3つのアプローチ
Public Interest Technology Workforce Survey Findings
The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers
Future Cities Community Solutions Portal
Browse resources, connect with other leaders and see practical examples of smart cities approaches that can help your community thrive.