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

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Calling Bullshit course

Each of our lectures will explore one specific facet of bullshit. For each week, a set of required readings are assigned. For some weeks, supplementary readings are also provided for those who wish to delve deeper.

2017

GovLab Academy

TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURS

2015
trainings

AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

MIT Media Lab

Justice Media co-Lab

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

Boston, MA

Justice and Equity in Technology Policy course

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

2023
racial equity, Reduced inequalities

Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (ViDA)

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

New York University
2014

DataHaven Youth Advisory Council

The DataHaven Youth Advisory Council (DHYAC) has created a model for democratizing data and AI literacy by equipping young people with practical skills to interpret and apply data for participatory action research.

Connecticut
youth

Storytelling with Data Course

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USA

How Cities Can Use Participatory Budgeting to Address Climate Change

People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs

Climate action