Introducing HACKDAYS, an experimental web3 project which connects civic technologists, motivates them to continue projects, records activities using blockchain, and aims to monetize civic tech through token economics. 

🎤 Speaker: Yuki Kawabe, Code for Japan

During the recent war in Ukraine, dozens of great tools emerged that brought inclusive but safe help to all who had to leave their country. This panel session aims to share the best civic tech scale-up solutions.

🎤 Speakers: Eva Pavlíková & Tereza Gagnon, Česko.Digital; and, Olivia Vereha, Code for Romania

A look inside a remote internship program designed to empower women from underserved cities of Pakistan, who are traditionally unable to join the workforce due to challenges in mobility, and face multiple other social and cultural barriers.

🎤 Speaker: Code for Pakistan

A look inside civic tech’s role in more effectively confronting disinformation.

🎤 Speaker: Matt Stempeck, Code for All

Learn about how mySociety is helping councils, community organisations, campaign groups and individual citizens take faster, more informed and effective action to cut emissions at the local level.

🎤 Speakers: Siôn Elis Williams and Zarino Zappia, mySociety

This session shares a simple strategy to defeat censorship and reach audiences who have been blocked by authoritarian governments.

🎤 Speaker: Emily Brown, GreatFire

Explore how to create civic tech that is good for the planet and accessible to everyone, including those with older devices and low connectivity.

🎤 Speakers: Aijalon Bode; Ismael Velasco, Adora Foundation; Janet Gunter; Melissa Hsiung and Sandra Pallier, ClimateAction.Tech

This session demonstrates how tech-enabled data collection on rights restrictions during a public health emergency or other crisis can help protect civic space.

🎤 Speaker: Elly Page International, Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)

Introducing the vision of The Turing Way. This session focuses on the importance of embedding collaboration into every step of community-led processes to ensure that contributions are done in accessible and equitable ways.

🎤 Speaker: Anne Lee Steele, The Alan Turing Institute

As a result of research conducted in South America between 2018-2021, this session will provide practical advice around developing and designing accessible digital products.

🎤 Speaker: María Sol Abichain, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC)

OpenUp has created a map-based database for activities that cause environmental impact. Learn more about this database, and how they are exploring ways to broaden impact and mobilisation at the grassroots level.

🎤 Speaker: Carl Jacobs, OpenUp

Key lessons on challenges and successful approaches to scaling and sustaining civic tech tools, especially those focused on strengthening governance.

🎤 Speakers: Amanda Zink, Hui Hui Ooi and Diana Kurth, International Republican Institute

By sharing an Australian case study, this session shows us how to engage communities to be part of the solution to climate change, even when they don’t believe in it or are too busy trying to survive its effects.

🎤 Speaker: Ren Geers, Ex Nihila

This session is focused on how to ensure digital and hybrid participation processes are inclusive and equitable. Learn about the ‘guide and ratings of digital participation platforms’ and key quality of digital platforms that can inform how both platform developers and program implementers design, configure and implement digital tools.

🎤 Speakers: Charlie Martial NGOUNOU, AfroLeadership; Katya Petrikevich, Participation Factory, Melissa Zisengwe, Civic Tech Innovation Network; and, Stéphane Dubé, Institut du Nouveau Monde

All about the first democratic constitutional process in Chile and how civil society organisations connected it with citizens.

🎤 Speaker: Martín Corvera, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente

This session discusses efforts by civil society organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to raise awareness about the growing trend of digital authoritarianism.

🎤 Speakers: Daniela Alvarado, IPYS Venezuela; David Aragort, RedesAyuda; and, Adrián González, Cazadores de Fake News

This session will share tips to increase the chance of success in civic tech projects and also explain the role of mentors to empower team members.

🎤 Speaker: Martín Szyszlican, Civic Tech Developer

All about mySociety’s Climate Action Plans Explorer website – learn why they picked action plans, how they started, how CAPE grew and what their future plans are.

🎤 Speaker: Zarino Zappia, mySociety

Learn about the Code for Jordan program, which focuses on “the violence of exclusion” by enhancing youth employability through experiential skills development and strengthening youth engagement with government.

🎤 Speakers: Maysam Alhadidi & Shahd Almahameed, Generations for Peace

Showcasing projects using digital technology or data to tackle the climate emergency at a local level.

🎤 Speaker: mySociety

All about how Code for Africa’s women’s network, WanaData, is empowering women in Africa by deepening their expertise in media, tech and science related careers.

🎤 Speaker: Esther Wanza, Code for Africa

This session showcases the work of leading environmental journalism organisations in Africa and how they are using technology to report on and fight climate change.

🎤 Speakers: Tricia Govindasamy, Code for Africa; Nompumelelo Mtsweni, Oxpeckers; Tolu Adeyemo, Code for Africa; and, Annika McGinnis, InfoNile

The session aims to show the need and ways to create open solutions on the ground that give marginalised women digital access to important knowledge and practical information.

🎤 Speaker: Marcel Heyne, URIDU, Open Source for Equality

With many guidelines and a wide range of user needs, accessibility can seem intimidating. This session shows how anyone can start making their content, products and platforms more accessible.

🎤 Speaker: Mark Renja, Code for Africa

This session explores how the strongest democracies around the world make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive by engaging their communities.

🎤 Speaker: Vanja Pantic, CitizenLab

Learn all about the Global Data Barometer, which seeks to delve into how data can be used for specific issues and communities, and to enable collective learning about various actors, policies, laws, practices and infrastructures.

🎤 Speaker: Silvana Fumega, Global Data Barometer/ILDA

Centered around the importance of procurement monitoring, this session aims to expand knowledge of data literacy, as well as improve the understanding of procurement data and the important role it plays in our everyday lives. 

🎤 Speakers: Jonathan Bosman and Sihle Makanya, OpenUp

All about how to make big data sheets more accessible for the public by creating interactive maps, and how to keep citizens informed about where their money goes when they go on a holiday in Hungary (Hotel Oligarch).

🎤 Speaker: Anna Bölcsföldi, Code for Hungary

Localization efforts have been relying primarily on geography, and have not yet adjusted to the changing world. This session aims to expose participants to new challenges and give them tools to adjust to the new realities.

🎤 Speaker: Moriel Schottlender, Wikimedia Foundation

Discussion around the usage of mis and disinformation to steer democratic discourse and interactive activities to crystallize insights into new playing cards of “Fight for the Net”.

🎤 Speaker: Elena Falomo, Fight for the Net

Sharing learned lessons from Political Watch’s OJITO project, an observatory for young activists focused on promoting civic monitoring and using civic tech to keep an eye on parliamentary activity using social media.

🎤 Speakers: Belén Aguero & Irene Martin, Political Watch

Learn effective ways to verify the information and counter harmful trends, especially in conflict-affected and high-friction environments.

🎤 Speakers: Christopher Tuckwood, John Green Otunga, and Yuriko Cowper-Smith, The Sentinel Project

All about promoting more participatory, open and innovative ways to construct policies. 

🎤 Speaker: Vanessa González Ratsch, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente

This session aims to show how Nonprofit Organizations have successfully funded accessibility initiatives, research, and products by sharing lessons learned and practical advice on how to win funding for accessibility.

🎤 Speakers: Bonnita Nyamwire, Pollicy; Gavin Freeguard, MySociety; Sofía Corona, Code for All; and, Whitney Pfeifer, National Democratic Institute

Coming from recent use cases of Decidim in Japan, this session will share steps for installing an ideal deliberative democracy space in local governments.

🎤 Speaker: Hal Seki, Code for Japan