Accurate, timely and relevant information is crucial to making decisions about granting. Grant managers and their teams collect, analyze and share troves of information to maximize the potential impact of philanthropic funds. Feedback1 from grantees and partners, as well as that from the people most affected by grantmaking decisions, are critical sources of information, with […]
Category: Civic engagement
Fostering Collaboration Between the Open Data and Civic Tech Movements in Canada
Canadian cities are becoming more open, whether through the growing volume of publicly available datasets, more interactive and data-driven forms of civic engagement, or principles like ‘open by default’ that set new standards for openness. Historically, these data governance reforms have been propelled by the open data movement. However, we are increasingly seeing interventions coming […]
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Barrie launches Citizen Budget and Knight Foundation Report on Civic Tech
The Knight Foundation published an initial report on the emerging civic technology sector, mapping the field using semantic analysis by Quid and private and philanthropic investment data. Accompanying the report, the Knight Foundation released an interactive visualization of how organizations are related within the sector. Partial investment data about Open North, as part of the “public decision making” cluster of organizations, is […]
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Google’s Civic Information API adds US representatives
It’s been a busy week for critiques of open data and open government. At The Programmable City, Professor Rob Kitchin presents four critiques of open data initiatives: from sustainability and empowering the empowered, to barriers to effective use and neoliberalisation of public services. David Eaves responds to the critiques on his blog, emphasizing some and refocusing others. Panthea […]
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The “civic power” sector
In a recent blog post, Tom Steinberg of mySociety describes the “civic power” sector as the sector that serves “people’s need to obtain and deploy power.” He segments it into four parts: Decision influencing organizations try to directly shape or change particular decisions made by powerful individuals or organisations. Regime changing organizations try to replace decision makers, not […]