PDF15 : food for thought

[Jean-Noé Landry]

Hello, 

I had the pleasure of attending another edition of the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC this week on the future of civic tech and wanted to share some of the projects, initiatives, or resources that inspired me from this dynamic community. 

In no order of priority. Enjoy! 

Jean-Noé 

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1. http://opentrials.net/ :: Aggregates information from a wide variety of existing sources, and aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the data and documents on all trials conducted on medicines and other treatments around the world.

2. https://debtcollective.org/ :: Helps people organize with each other to challenge creditors. Debt Collective believes no one should have to go into debt for basic needs like housing, healthcare, and education. When the indebted join together they can build power to help create a just society.

3. http://thedatacitizen.org/ :: Empowers citizens to make more informed decisions about their personal data.

4. http://thecivicbeat.com/ :: A collective of researchers and writers looking at the creative side of civic technology. It support each other in our goals to engage the public through writing, talks and workshops

5. http://www.buildwith.org/ :: A resource hub for direct partnership in civic technology

6. http://sumofus.org/ :: A movement of consumers, workers and shareholders speaking with one voice to counterbalance the growing power of large corporations.

7. http://www.faircarelabs.org/ :: Seeks to shape the future of the care industry and emerging care markets. Its main focus is on raising market norms and standards, partnering with the private sector, and building scalable and sustainable business ventures.

8. http://ds4si.org/ :: An artistic research and development outfit for the improvement of civil society and everyday life. Ds4si is situated at the intersections of design thinking and practice, social justice and activism, public art and social practice and civic / popular engagement.

9. http://publiclab.org/ :: Develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible Do-It-Yourself techniques, Public Lab creates a collaborative network of practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship with the environment.

10. http://freelawfounders.org/ :: Nation-wide, collaborative effort open to all people who want to improve how laws and legislation are produced and presented to citizens of American states and cities.

11. http://largelots.org/about/ :: Housing land use approach that was developed as part of the Green Healthy Neighborhoods public planning process.The program is being piloted in community areas where the City owns large amounts of vacant land in Chicago. 

12. http://internet2016.net/ :: United by free speech, access, privacy, choice and openness, this advocacy and mobilisation campaign believes that these principles need to be the basis of all Internet policies. 

13. http://frontporchforum.com/ ::  A free community-building service in Vermont. Your neighborhood's forum is only open to the people who live there. It's all about helping neighbors connect.

14. Applied  research by Google Civic Innovation Team on "Interested Bystanders" :: sought to inform the design of civic-related products and services at Google and across the civic technology community more broadly.

15. http://labs.robinhood.org/ :: Blue Ridge Labs is a Brooklyn-based social impact incubator. Its programs encourage entrepreneurs, designers, and developers to build products for communities that are often overlooked by technology.

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