Welcome to the Civic Tech Innovation Network

The Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) is a Community of Practice (CoP) and action learning network for people with an interest and commitment to leveraging the nexus between technology and civic activism.

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Are you a civic tech enthusiast, innovator or someone planning a new civic tech initiative?

Our network is a hub for information learning and collaborations in the ‘civic tech’ space
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    Podcast: Embracing Civic Technology to Amplify African Voices
    Podcast: Embracing Civic Technology to Amplify African Voices

    In this episode, we talk about an initiative aimed at boosting civic participation in issues of democratic governance on the African continent. Justin Arenstein spoke to us about the recently launched Charter Project Africa initiative. We talk about how the Civic Tech landscape in Africa and some initiatives doing great work on the continent.

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Case studies

The Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) is welcoming any case studies that focus on topics related to civic tech. The African Civic Tech Case Studies is a project aimed at building and creatively disseminating an aggregation of African case studies on civic tech practices and lessons from various contexts.

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Initiatives

The African Civic Tech Atlas is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in Africa. This is for the civic tech community to use in research, articles and other media (we would appreciate the shout-out though). This is a great resource that can help the community understand what is going on in the civic tech and civic innovation fields in Africa and also see who is involved, what they are doing and what successes and challenges they are facing.

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Mon 10 Oct
Civic Tech Innovation Forum 2022 (CTIF22)
10 Oct 2022 09:00 - 27 Oct 2022 14:00
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Initiatives

 

The African Civic Tech Atlas is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in Africa. This database is for the civic tech community to use in research, articles and other, (We would appreciate the shout out though). This is a great resource that can help the community understand what is going on in the civic tech and civic innovation field in Africa and also see who is involved, what they are doing and what successes and challenges they are facing.

The database is for civic tech enthusiasts, innovators and anyone planning a new civic tech initiative.

Africa has many civic tech organisations, such as Budgit/Tracka, SEMA, Mzalendo, VoteWomen, Amandla.mobi, Grassroot, GovChat and Vulekamali which aim to make a real impact on many issues concerning African citizens. Such organisations make use of different technologies to make a real change. These civic tech organisations often focus on issues pertaining to transparency and accountability, education, citizen participation, open data, governance, journalism and much more.

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Case Studies

 

The Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN) is welcoming any case studies that focus on topics related to civic tech. The African Civic Tech Case Studies is a project aimed at building and creatively disseminating an aggregation of African case studies on civic tech practices and lessons from various contexts.

We would like to share your work and lessons far and wide with our community of practice. This is part of our purpose as CTIN – to build up and strengthen the civic tech community in South Africa and the rest of Africa through sharing and engagement.

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