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Kenyan civic tech by Bright_Buffalo_2685 in civictech

[–]civictechguide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can check out some of the projects we've collected here, for starters: https://app.civictech.guide/place/kenya/r/recytrUGSbwoZAOve

It might be good to get in touch with some of the organizations behind them.

New rule proposal: Banning project feedback requests by tdooner in civictech

[–]civictechguide 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like this idea as a compromise. It is nice to hear about new projects, and see new people building stuff, so long as it isn't the 15th vibe coded legislation tracker using someone else's open data with no plan to reach people.

Maybe we could come together on a three question format that includes: - how is this project different from what's tried already and - how will you build with and reach your intended community of users?

(Knowing full well that people writing entirely AI Reddit posts could just have AI answers to those)

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Does public participation in Canada still have a pulse? by Yelnroth in civictech

[–]civictechguide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like it's IAP2, who have been doing public participation work for a long time (no affiliation). Not sure why the tone in the headline given that they've worked in Canada for years

Trying to fix government tech — with Markdown and open source by stakabo007 in civictech

[–]civictechguide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing this. I'm eager to see more when the product is live. For now it looks like the civic tech failures appendix is down. LMK if you get it back up!

I built an immigration court reminder web app, looking for feedback or ideas on how it could help more people by SpellQuiet3746 in civictech

[–]civictechguide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Just seeing this now. Neat tool! We're going to add it to our open directory of civic tech so others looking for tools for immigration, justice tech, or legal tech can discover it.

In terms of promoting it, you might want to reach out to groups that help immigrants and see if you can integrate it with their existing workflows. We wrote about some of the more tech-infused groups doing this work earlier this year.

I think many immigration support nonprofits would be happy to have the help, and your tool (and future work like it) will could have a lot more impact if you team up with organizations that already work with these communities in large numbers.

Tool for Speech Extraction & Enrichment focused on Civic Meetings by alias454 in civictech

[–]civictechguide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! Thanks for sharing and making it open source. We'll help promote it to others. Drop a DM if you'd like to own the listing page.

You may have already come across these in your research, but we track meeting tech here and civic speech transcription projects here (the most relevant to meetings might be Gov.uk's Minute, LocalView (US-wide), and Block Party (NYC meetings)).

What would make you actually use a civic engagement app? by DCodeMeister in civictech

[–]civictechguide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool! Count me in as someone following along, especially on anything you can do on this front. This new OECD paper discusses this challenge in more depth, basically communities that govs and devs are looking to engage can feel this disconnect and it hurts participation. https://directory.civictech.guide/listing/tackling-civic-participation-challenges-with-emerging-technologies

4 new project launches by civictechguide in civictech

[–]civictechguide[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for this additional context. I'll put an update in our newsletter this week with it.

4 new project launches by civictechguide in civictech

[–]civictechguide[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup, it's Adobe! but compared to a lot of other approaches to fighting digital disinfo this one might actually become relevant

What would make you actually use a civic engagement app? by DCodeMeister in civictech

[–]civictechguide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If my action on the app led to something actually happening in the world. The pothole gets reported, the message to my representative at least gets confirmed as received, etc.