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.
Local STEM Database
A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.
Vox Populi Stanford
An index of nearly 200 technology ethics courses
I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi
The Cleaners
It tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.
Nightseeing tours of nighttime urban planning
Home Page
How to talk to civic hackers
This book is meant for public servants and people working inside government who want to connect with innovators and technologists outside of the bureaucracy.
Civic Innovation and Building a People-Centered Government
A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.
Décider ensemble
Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
MIT GOV/LAB
The MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
Solutions Journalism Story Tracker
The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.
Humanitarian Knowledge Base
Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work
GovLab digest email
Subscribe to curated findings and actionable knowledge from The Living Library, delivered to your inbox every Friday
Brexit Tools
A collection of tools and resources to learn and act on Brexit.
El Soberano
El Soberano aparece entonces como una plataforma informativa que surge desde las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y de los movimientos sociales a efectos de informar directamente a los ciudadanos,...
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
mySociety Research
Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.
Beyond Uptake
Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.
The Public Impact Observatory
The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of p...
Radio for good
Infrequent podcast covering various tech for good ventures
The 2019 Brigade Network Census
Ideas and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else.
First Branch Forecast
How Congress learns about Congress
iCivics
iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
London Plus
Championing London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections
Apolitical's Government Innovation Lab Directory
Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch
Sideways Dictionary
it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions.
GovEx Center for Government Excellence
GovEx at Johns Hopkins successfully helps governments effectively use data in order to make informed decisions on services that improve people’s lives.
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democrati...
Police Case
Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.
Bomb blast
Experience the power of a nuclear blast in your area
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity
Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
Common Cents Lab
Solutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States
Programa de Derechos Humanos
El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la inc...
Govtech 360
A show that takes the two dullest subjects in the world, government and technology, and makes them irresistibly relevant and undeniably fascinating. (Trust us!)
Open Governance Research Exchange
OGRX is a platform for browsing and sharing research findings about new, innovative ways to solve public problems.
The Interface
The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy.
How do you like it so far?
How Do You Like It So Far uses pop culture to take soundings of a society in transition, exploring intersections with civic imagination and engagement, and social and political change. Henry Jenkins a...
Chatham House Commission on Democracy and Technology
Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.
Ryerson University Digital Government and Civic Tech
Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.
The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)
The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance
The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-...
Explora Latam
Map of Open Data, Civic Technology and social innovation in Latin America
Center for Human Rights Sciences
CHRS
Digital Impact
Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resourc...
People's Press
People’s Press is a fictional community magazine exploring the use of digital social innovation in the year 2030
Dangerous Speech Project
The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting fre...
Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline
“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”
Netzpolitik podcast
NPP Off The Record ist ein Podcast zu unseren Reportagen und Recherchen, der einen Einblick in die redaktionelle Arbeit gibt. Er erscheint regelmäßig am 1.
ICTWorks
ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and...
HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)
User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.