Adaptive re-use of data for the adaptive re-use of high streets: building and scaling a local data service for London’s local authorities
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Despite narratives on the decline of UK high streets, there are many examples of local community partnerships applying strategies to repurpose traditional retail space and meet modern community needs. In London, this is supported by the High Streets Data Service and its adaptive re-use of big, private-sector data to deliver local, public-sector research and analysis. Hear Lauren Wool (Greater London Authority High Streets Data Service) talk about the project at TICTeC 2024.
Civic tech for smartphone beginners: is the future binary?
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As real-time data becomes increasingly important for decision-making, Integrity Action‘s DevelopmentCheck tool pushes those in positions of authority to deliver better public services and infrastructure projects.
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The Making All Voices Count programme: new lessons about donor-funded civic tech
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The potential and limits of technologies in building democratic and accountable governance; and the extent to which a donor-funded programme like MAVC incentivises a careful, critical, evaluative approach.
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Making waves: tech for water in Sierra Leone
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Water in Sierra Leone is a complicated issue. On the one hand, availability is high; on the other, access is unequally distributed. Civic tech can help, but it’s not the whole solution.
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The politics of civic tech platforms
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Civic tech started as an idea that became a community that became a buzzword. Now, it is a market.
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Civic engagement: the paradox of crowdsourcing lies
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Slide deck on which you can read the entire paper.
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