Related Projects/Institutions tackling Civic Tech

  • Tech for the Margins – how to design systems with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for/with marginalized people
  • Decode Project EU – “DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good”
  • MIT Civic Data Lab – big data for public benefit
  • Center for Humane Technology – former silicon valley staff criticizing business models of the GAFFA enterprises (Netflix documentation Social Dilemma )
  • Weizenbaum Berlin Research Group 8 “Digital Inequality and Souvereignity” Blog
  • School of Data – “We are a network of individuals and organizations working on empowering civil society organizations, journalists and citizens with skills they need to use data effectively.”
  • Algorithm Ethics – research by Bertelsmann Stiftung (PDF)

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Related Case Studies/Projects/Platforms/Exhibitions

  • Commonfare.net – “Commonfare.net is a platform for everyone to share experiences, foster ventures, and connect with people who want to support each other. It is not a social network. Rather, commonfare.net is a space for social innovation intended for developing relationships among people through mutual help.”
  • HER she loves data – cultural initiative that promotes projects related to art and data
  • Civic Tech Guide
  • Afrocyberfeminism

Relevant Literature

  • Lauren Berlant, 2016 “The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times”
  • Gabriella Coleman, 2015 “On the ethnography of digital politics part 2” (and video 2016)
  • Design Justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock
  • Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim, Ruha Benjamin
  • Algorithms of Oppression
  • Invisible Women
  •  Hardt, M., & Negri, A. (2009). Commonwealth (First edition). Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press.
  • Patel, M., Sotsky, J., Gourley S., and Houghton, D. (2013). The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field. Knight Foundation
  • De Waal, M. (2014) The City as Interface. How New Media is Changing the City , dissertation, Amsterdam, nai 010 publishers.
  • Article Prototypefund “Was genau ist civic an Civic Tech?”
  • Article LeMond, Arne Semsott “Freie Software für die Städte”
  • https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!5476316

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