How do you make the Mexican government become a platform for innovation? Running through Reboot’s theory of change and outcomes. A slide deck.
In 2013, the Red Cross’s Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) developed two smartphone app templates, one for First Aid preparedness and one for Multi-Hazard preparedness.
Looking beneath the surface at the state of civic tech by tracing the dependency graph — the links between software and its constituent parts.
One of mySociety’s designers takes us through the main civic tech product design lessons he’s learnt while working at the organisation.
This paper assesses the impact of a design process to understand root causes of anti-government populism, and the means of reversing its spread.
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.
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.
Shift discover that by removing judgement, online platforms become more accessible. Slide deck.
Technology has brought many opportunities to change the way that governments and citizens can interact – but it has also brought challenges.
A workshop exploring how to develop better metrics that can serve organisational missions, using two technology platforms for civic engagement.
Sharing components across different areas has helped GOV.UK make efficiencies in processes such as online payments. A slide deck.
A slide deck, in which Hackney and Croydon Councils present experimental approaches to user research.
Looking at two projects which used civic tech to better engage with public: design services to be used by local people; and collecting opinions about autonomous vehicles. A notes document.
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.
Across South Africa, municipalities recognise that community engagement in local policy-making is crucial for effective governance, but they nonetheless struggle with low and unrepresentative participation.
Lessons learned from four years spent building Grassroot, a civic technology platform in South Africa.
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.