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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Congreso Interactivo, Elegilegi and DEMOS
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Three cases of citizen participation through technology and three different research methods used to understand impact. A slide deck.
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The digital divide: why civic tech leaves 3 billion people behind
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The chasm between the digital haves and the have-nots has never been more evident. Are we all missing the point?
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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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The personal and the public: protecting sensitive data in huge datasets
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Release of a public dataset means treading the balance between utility and protection of individuals. This session explains tools that help with PII detection, and concepts like k-anonymity and l-diversity.
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Words from Google: supporting the civic tech ecosystem
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Google’s commitment to the civic tech field, outlining why the search engine giant believes it to be of such critical importance in the current age.
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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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Empowerment of women through civic tech in Kosovo
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This research looks at grassroots programmes in Kosovo, which teach young women advanced ICT skills and the use of Open Data.
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Impacts of discussion platforms for young people
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Two million young people from Yemen, Libya, Egypt, DRC, Burundi, Mali and China engage in Citizens’ Voice online communities where they share diverse viewpoints in a safe, alternative civic space.
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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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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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Digital skills training for better citizen participation in France
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Video footage of TICTeC@Taipei conference session by French Digital Agency, a governmental agency overseen by the Ministry for the Economy.
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