Hackathon Fighting The World’s Problems Through Virtual Collaboration How the DemocracyLab Earthathon 2024 Helped a Web App Project Reach Its Purpose
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
