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Explore 60 projects in the Courses category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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Acumen Academy (formerly Plus Acumen)

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.

Advocacy Assembly

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

London
2015
trainings, courses

Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.

trainings

Doing Democracy Differently

This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.

New York, USA
2025
teachers & educators

Cooperative AI Course

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

UK
courses

The School for Everyday Democracy

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

London
2024
trainings

Defending Democracy in a Digital World

Zuckerman and students explore digital media, polarization, and democracy

Massachusetts

L.A. TACO Media Lab

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

Los Angeles, CA
2025
trainings

Civic Tech Innovation Short Course, Wits School of Governance

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

Johannesburg, South Africa
2024