The state of civic tech: beneath the surface
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Looking beneath the surface at the state of civic tech by tracing the dependency graph — the links between software and its constituent parts.

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Populism, post-truth and fake news: the role of civic tech in the post-fact world
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2017, when we were just getting to grips with the terms ‘fake news’, ‘populism’ and ‘post-truth’.

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Improving civic discourse on Facebook
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From Facebook’s Civic Engagement team, a presentation considering why and how they promote civic discourse among their vast userbase. A slide deck.

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Responsible technology as the new normal
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Martha Lane Fox on what it means to make technology responsible, at every step of the process: the way it’s developed, the way it works for users and its impact on society.

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Making responsible tech the new normal
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Following Martha Lane Fox’s keynote speech, Doteveryone asks how we can foster collaborations between policy makers, civil society and the tech industry to ensure responsible tech becomes the normal.

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Fixing the plumbing
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MHCLG share how they are helping Local Government to ‘fix the plumbing’, by putting the basics in place now — and quickly. Slide deck.

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The quest for an internet that serves us
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The Internet Health Report tells a collaborative story of how the internet is — and isn’t — a resource for good. Issues range from privacy to connectivity, to online harassment and the economics of online platforms.

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When civic tech matures: the issues that arise in long-running projects
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Running Civic Tech websites over a long period of time brings some unique challenges, not all of which are foreseeable when setting out.

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Preventing abuse on Facebook during the 2018 US midterm elections
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A behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook attempted to identify and combat coordinated attempts at manipulation and voter suppression on their platform.

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Ensuring civic tech is accessible – how can we lead and popularise best practice?
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Civic tech tools must be accessible and inclusive if they are to truly help everyone. Practitioners from across the world share the challenges and their solutions and ideas to tackle these.

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How can civic tech reach more people? How can civic tech be more inclusive?
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Examples of technology projects that tackle digital exclusion. As a community, coders and activists must ensure that tools genuinely benefit the communities who need them most.

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Impacts of open data standards on transparency tools
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Most open data initiatives assume the provision of data by governments which will be used by a variety of sectors for the good of all. But for some, the promises of Open Data fall far short of the reality.

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