Community Engagement Making Citizen’s Issues Accessible The Council Data Project was deployed in Missoula, Montana to provide a new and innovative way to for citizens to engage with City government.
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.
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.
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.
Community Engagement PeaceTrees Vietnam Works to Heal the Wounds of War Founded in 1995, PeaceTrees Vietnam seeks to heal landscape and culture scars incurred during the Vietnam War. With over 10,000 people (20% of them children) killed or maimed by
Tech For Good Textio Engages Employees to Accelerate Civic Innovation Textio’s experiment with an internal tech-for-good Explorathon is paying off for the projects they selected and in employee enthusiasm.
Civic Tech The Untapped Potential of Civic Technology “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” -Albert Einstein
