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Reorganise: 15 stories of workers fighting back in a digital age

Reorganise: 15 stories of workers fighting back in a digital age

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

"In only a decade, the labour market has changed beyond all recognition - from zero-hour contracts to platform monopolies - meanwhile union memberships are at historic lows."

https://www.reorganise.work/
Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust

Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

https://libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/5t34sj769
Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning

Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning

Massachusetts

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

https://edtechbooks.org/mediaandciviclearning
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics

Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

https://www.zonebooks.org/books/28-close-up-at-a-distance-mapping-technology-and-politics
Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

https://solvingpublicproblems.org/book.html
Ask What You Can Do: "Why local government needs more technologists and how you too can serve "

Ask What You Can Do: "Why local government needs more technologists and how you too can serve "

"US governments struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies and with the expectations of the public for governmental service delivery akin to what they experience in other aspects of their normal daily lives."

https://www.askwhatyoucando.com/
The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300209570/atlas-ai
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-action?fbclid=IwAR1gCS4TXfp47AqjKEDHItf2RnZIcvgVJERwv0AXPZDfERnN3J6BUWUeqeQ
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691203423/breaking-the-social-media-prism
The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: Fully Integrating Online Service into Volunteer Involvement

The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: Fully Integrating Online Service into Volunteer Involvement

Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement

http://www.coyotebroad.com/volunteer/guidebook.shtml
The @CivicWhitaker Anthology: Three Years of Organizing, Writing, and Documenting in Chicago Civic Tech

The @CivicWhitaker Anthology: Three Years of Organizing, Writing, and Documenting in Chicago Civic Tech

By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill

https://www.slideshare.net/smartchicago/the-civicwhitaker-anthology-53351581
A Lever and a Place to Stand: How Civic Tech Can Move the World

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.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26385378-a-lever-and-a-place-to-stand
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

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

https://www.amazon.com/New-City-Collaborative-Distributed-Governance/dp/0815732864/ref=sr_1_1
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer
Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Online Communities

Community Rules: Simple Templates for Great Online Communities

United States of America 🇺🇸

A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance

https://communityrule.info/assets/book/gov-booklet-MASTER.pdf
Democracy Studio: Practical guide to artificial intelligence on citizen engagement

Democracy Studio: Practical guide to artificial intelligence on citizen engagement

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Studio-artificial-intelligence-engagement-ebook/dp/B098HMHXPW/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=DJS2BD17FZWJB02YVRW2
Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World

Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change.

https://www.routledge.com/Design-for-Social-Innovation-Case-Studies-from-Around-the-World/Amatullo-Boyer-May-Shea/p/book/9780367898427
Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Open-Data-Now-Investing-Innovation/dp/0071829776
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210805165314/http://octaviasbrood.com/
Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis

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.

https://www.demos.org/press-release/rebuilding-american-democracy-era-crisis
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

https://smartenoughcity.mitpress.mit.edu/
Opening the Government of Canada

Opening the Government of Canada

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

https://www.ubcpress.ca/opening-the-government-of-canada
The Open Data Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Open Data

The Open Data Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Open Data

Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

http://opendatahandbook.org/
Ours to hack and own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Ours to hack and own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ours-to-hack-and-to-own/
Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Canada 🇨🇦

A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/310887/citizenville-by-gavin-newsom-with-lisa-dickey/9780143124474
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10671.html
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Gower Street, London, UK

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/107613
Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons

Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons

487 Central Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities
Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/black-software-9780190863845?cc=ke&lang=en&
How to talk to civic hackers

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.

https://www.civichacking.guide/
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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 democratizing force

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Platform-Taking-Culture-Digital/dp/0805093567
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

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

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317
Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316811/heartificial-intelligence-by-john-c-havens/
Platform point cooperation 平台點合作

Platform point cooperation 平台點合作

Hong Kong

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.

http://www.logos.com.hk/bf/acms/content.asp?site=logosbf&op=show&type=product&code=IB933
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It

Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300228502/fiber
Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

Beyond Transparency: Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

San Francisco

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

http://beyondtransparency.org/
Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

Fearless Cities: A Guide to the Global Municipalist Movement

Barcelona

In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is emerging to defend human rights, democracy and the common good. Fearless Cities is the first book written by and for the global municipalist movement.

http://fearlesscities.com/en/book
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America

Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America

by Hollie Russon Gilman. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation.

https://www.brookings.edu/book/democracy-reinvented/
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

https://ghostwork.info/
The CUTgroup book

The CUTgroup book

Chicago, IL

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

https://www.cutgroupbook.com/

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