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.
The Gov We Need
The Government We Need is a podcast exploring the government of the future and how it can best serve everyone.
Monocole 24: The Urbanist
With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.
GovLab Crowdlaw Catalog
The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.
Center for an Urban Future
Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.
Citizens' Initiative Review
Citizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.
Interoperable Europe
Share and reuse Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
Humanity In Action
It is to analyze what is wrong with democracy and spark conversations about how to fix it.
Participedia
Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.
Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation
W3 OpenGov group
Facilitating development of open government data and API specifications via a W3C Community Group (now closed).
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
a crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak
Tech for Social Justice's list of educational programs
Google Sheet of Educational programs for technology and social justice/social good/public interest/civics/etc.
Climate Modeling in Colombia
In a cross-sector partnership led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, The Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano (Colombian Climate a...
Civic Engagement interdisciplinary program at UChicago
University of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.
Association of Internet Researchers
The Association of Internet Researchers is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and exis...
Technology and Social Change 2018
Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.
Games for Cities City-Game Database
This is a growing collection of games that improve city making
Clear The Lobby
The laws MPs are voting on this week, explained in plain English. Landing in your inbox every Sunday.
Newspeak House
Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.
Smart Cities Dive
Smart Cities Dive provides the latest news and trends on sustainable, connected and livable cities.
Poligonal
customisation of our city walks, workshops, and seminars to your thematic requirements and individual interests.
Data & Society Research Institute
Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.
Ingrid Burrington's Networks and Surveillance walking tours of New York
A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
Data Collaboratives
creating public value by exchanging data
Disco Sour novel
“Disco Sour is a hallucinatory trip through a future which feels just a phone-swipe away. There are notes of Pynchon, Stross, Heller and Stephenson here, but this is very much Porcaro’s book. It’s wil...
Instituto Update
Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.
Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation
Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.
Network Connectivity across American Communities
Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US
Collection of eIdentity and eSignature solutions
A resource from Joinup
Johnson & Johnson-Yale Open Data Access Project
As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.
publiccode.yml
A metadata description standard for public software
Megaphone podcast
MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement
SAFELAB
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Big Data for Gender Challenge UN
Announcement & Call for Submissions
Electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA)
Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally a...
The Urbanist
The Urbanist serves to examine and influence urban policies by promoting and disseminating ideas, creating community, and improving the places we live.
Instituto Update Bubble Map
Explore 366 South American civic tech entities in a data viz
Open Data Day
Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world.
Technopolis
How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.
Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.
Tech for Good
We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.
STREETSBLOG
Better walking, biking, and transit
Blue Labs
We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
Civic Studios
The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with publi...
Museum Stat
Connecting Museums and Communities
Open Definition
Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE