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International Journalists' Network
Washington, DCIJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and emerging journalists worldwide.
Civic AI Handbook
LondonThe Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.
Deceptive Patterns
LondonA taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
Civicspace.tech
Washington, DCA collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks
The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.
UN HABITAT Digital Cities Toolkit
58 Victoria EmbankmentAn open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.
Por un Entorno Digital Accesible (PUEDA)
Argentina 🇦🇷La iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.
Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?
Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.
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Disclosure logs: a best practice guide for local authorities [in the UK]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."
An open guide promoting participatory urban planning
HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping
1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005We have a four step validation process to ensure that the data created for emergencies like the current Turkey and Syria earthquake response is fit for use.
Climate section of the Participation Playbook
Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.
How to organize a phone bank
San FranciscoImprove the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training
Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.
Projection bombing guide
San Francisco“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.
Accessibility ABCs
Tunisia (Tunis) 🇹🇳A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community
A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice
Publi Ou Fake
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.
A guide
Geotarget campaigns by zip code
San FranciscoA short case study using ESRI to focus your campaign on the areas with the most potential supporters.
Video creation case studies
San FranciscoShort case studies and guides to using free tools to create campaign videos
The Turing Way: Community-led guides for data science and open research
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKAlan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.
Curated list of links to help you publish open data
Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JEHow to publish open data: a list of advice and tools
Standards Lab
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧This handbook provides an overview of the creation, maintenance and adoption of a policy-related open data standard.
A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.
Do-it-Yourself Open Data Toolkit
Canada 🇨🇦The Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Open Data Toolkit is an instructional manual that provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop your open data initiative. It brings together training materials, best practices, tools and resources to help you prepare for and implement an open data project.
Este documento fue realizado por el equipo de la Dirección de Datos Abiertos junto con la Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA).
A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
This overview highlights resources that are available for TU Delft researchers in their Open Science journey.
Demtech Navigator
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKThis is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Countering Information Influence Activities: A handbook for communicators
Sweden (Sverige) 🇸🇪The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.
Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation
A Voter's Guide: 7 tips to detox your data
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyPart of the Data Detox Kit
Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.
A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.
City of NY Virtual Meeting Accessibility Guide
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.
A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible
This list of resources is curated and maintained by MERL Tech and The Engine Room.
A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe