DemocracyLab

Hackathon

Global Collaboration at Hacky New Year

At Hacky New Year 2023 we explored new partnerships and models of collaboration to convene what we believe was the world’s first public, hybrid, multi-location, tech-for-good hackathon.

Community Engagement

Making Citizen’s Issues Accessible

The Council Data Project in Missoula, Montana, is a new and innovative way to change how citizens find out about what is happening in their communities allowing for more citizen engagement.

Civic Tech

A Better Tech-a-thon: ground-breaking collaboration on Public Interest Technology

Students and faculty from leading universities collaborated with tech professionals to contribute to 17 tech-for-good projects at A Better Tech-a-thon.

Career

Navigating Career Changes with Chocolate Milk Diplomacy

Searching for a job or navigating a career change can feel ambiguous and overwhelming. Chocolate Milk Diplomacy and DemocracyLab have teamed up to create a four-part 50-minute video course to help you get started.

Civic Engagement

Building a Database to End School Violence

Gun violence in schools is a public health issue that plagues our country. The Athena project is using social science and big data to create an app to power violence prevention programs in our schools.

Civic Engagement

Volunteers make the 2021 Summer Create-a-thon a Success

At this year's Create-a-thon ten projects came together with over 60 volunteers to make progress building tech-for-good. Both volunteers and project leaders enjoyed the event, found it rewarding, and made progress towards the goals they set.

DemocracyLab

Optimizing Municipal Infrastructure with Smart City Planning

Smart City Planning is creating a transparent, open source platform that puts the power to make data-driven decisions back into the hands of the community.

Education

Supporting Diversity in the Health Sciences

There’s a lack of diversity in the American healthcare field. Northwest Health Career Path (NWHCP) believes a healthcare workforce should reflect its community and works to support diversity in healthcare.

Volunteer

DemocracyLab: Globally Inclusive

In such unpredictable, virtual-first times, it is not a bad idea for civic organizations to expand their circle with international volunteerism. The team at DemocracyLab takes diversity and inclusion to heart, and it shows in the incredible work we all accomplish together.

data

How Are Social & Environmental Organizations Growing with Data?

by Rhia June As data analysis has become a more mainstream practice over the years, it has spawned an industry unto itself. University programs and online learning institutions alike have

Community

WGU Helps Community College Students Hack for the Future

WGU is reshaping education with its online performance-based approach. Their education model prepares students for the evolving demands of tech industries.

Virtual Hackathon

2nd Virtual St. Hack-trick’s Day Accelerates Civic Innovation

Now a full year into virtual hackathons, we can see that the pandemic accelerated us in the direction we wanted to go, but weren’t quite brave enough to leap toward - events with no geographic bounds.

Civic Tech

Undebates: Making Democracy More Accessible

Undebates is a way for voters to quickly get to know candidates and for candidates to gain exposure to voters – for free! It can be deployed for elections all across the country.

Tech For Good

iSeaTree Nurtures Community Scientists

iSeaTree used skilled volunteers from DemocracyLab to build an app that engages a community of data-informed youth in protecting trees.

Tech For Good

How Amazon Hacked for Good

Amazon's Self Service Performance Ads team strengthened their culture and boosted employee enthusiasm through a virtual tech-for-good hackathon.

Tech For Good

The Mayo App - Creating Purposeful, Supportive, In-Person relationships beyond Screens

Learn now about the app helping people fight isolation. Want someone to sing to you from their balcony? You want Mayo.

Tech For Good

Every Voice Engaged: Transforming Lives, Communities, Government with Games, Software, and Collaboration

Every Voice Engaged helps governments to meet citizens’ needs and help citizens engage with their Government.

Record Sponge

Record Sponge Cleans Records, Changes Lives

Record Sponge provides Oregon citizens with arrest records fast and free eligibility analysis that can lead to record expungements.

Tech For Good

Grow your Tech for Good Project Teams with the "Groups" Feature on DemocracyLab!

The “Groups” feature lists the specific projects associated with a Tech for Good organization on a branded landing page that is easy to update and maintain. DemocracyLab makes it easy for volunteers to dig deep into a project before reaching out to project leaders to start a conversation.

National Day of Civic Hacking

2020 National Day of Civic Hacking – NW Project Workday

The National Day of Civic Hacking brought together civic leaders, public servants, designers, coders and engaged citizens to partner with local governments and community groups to tackle some of our toughest challenges.

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What does volunteering as a Software Engineer look like?

Volunteer Software Engineers build, design, and deploy projects through DemocracyLab’s platform

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What is a Hackathon?

A hackathon is a short period where skilled individuals of all walks of life and industries come together to work on a specific goal. At DemocracyLab, our Hackathons focus on developing technology that improves the world.

Summer Create-a-thon

White Bird Clinic’s Little Help Book: An Online, Expansive, and Accessible Resource Directory

Created by White Bird Clinic, Little help book is developing an online resource directory of human and social service resources around Eugene and Springfield

Summer Create-a-thon

Strappd Sees Spike in Downloads During Pandemic

Strappd, an app that connects homeless individuals with services, surpasses 100,000 downloads.

Summer Create-a-thon

Conviction Vacation Project Helps People Get a Second Chance

Conviction Vacation Project’s remote team meeting.Do you believe in second chances? Nearly one in four people in Washington State have been involved in the criminal justice system. It