Hackathon Fighting The World’s Problems Through Virtual Collaboration How the DemocracyLab Earthathon 2024 Helped a Web App Project Reach Its Purpose
Education From music teacher to product designer - how DemocracyLab enabled Michael's journey In September 2022, Michael Hustedde, a professional violinist and former music teacher, graduated from Career Foundry’s User Experience Design boot camp, hoping to transition to product design. Unfortunately, as
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 Benefits of Skilled Volunteering Nonprofits today are stretched thin due to lack of resources and funding. Their challenges are growing and they’re constantly in need of expertise that may not be available within their own organizations.
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
