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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Designing for monitorial citizenship
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A qualitative meta-analysis of the existing literature and additional original case studies, organising monitorial citizenship tools into thematic groups.

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The impacts of civic tech… on the people who make it
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When we talk about the impact of civic technology, we tend to look only at the impact on the end users. But what about the impact it has on the makers — the individuals who become creators and change agents?

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The impacts of OpenSCHUFA on credit scoring transparency in Germany
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OpenSCHUFA, took data donated by the public, and reverse engineered the algorithms of Schufa, Germany’s credit rating system.

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Is that grant working? Citizen monitoring in Nepal
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Sindhupalcheck was an intervention that engaged citizens to monitor a house reconstruction programme in Nepal. How impactful was it?

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The impacts of civic tech for elections in the UK
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An overview of the work of Democracy Club, which leads a huge effort in crowdsourcing data every time there’s a UK election. A slide deck.

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Changing a constitution
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Constitutional revision has been a long running theme for Iceland in recent years. Now they’ve been through a wide-ranging public consultation on changes to the nation’s constitution.

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What are the effects of OpenStreetMapping on the mappers themselves?
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Generally, contributing to OSM’s mapping is regarded as a form of volunteer service. However, recent analyses suggest that experience of mapping could be as important as the data contributed.

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Digital champions: community led development monitoring in Tanzania
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Crowd2Map trained first time smartphone users in the Serengeti District to map their communities and help protect girls from female genital mutilation.

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Disfactory: mapping and reporting illegal factories in Taiwan
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Disfactory is a crowdsourcing platform that enables citizens to report illegal factories on farmland in Taiwan, aiming to decrease pollution and accidents.

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Impacts of civic tech projects in Pakistan
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Code for Pakistan’s applications have improved government efficiency and the experiences of hundreds of citizens who interact with government every day.

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Serenata de Amor: tracking Congresspeople’s expense claims in Brazil
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Using data on Lower House representatives’ expense reimbursements, the Serenata de Amor Operation team built an artificial intelligence capable of analysing each expense and rating it for the probability of having broken the law.

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Impacts and challenges of civic tech experiments in India
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Venkatesh Kannaiah speaks about Civic Tech experiments in India, including I Change My City and I Paid A Bribe.

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