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Repurpose the creative commons framework to become a forked Civic Commons framework. Create comms to promote licencing in this framework where possible and highlight exceptions

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Partner with a media platform to show how civic tech could be applied/benefit its own work.

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Developing a canvas for effective civic tech comms incl. , concrete examples, succesful stories

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Developing a canvas for effective civic tech comms incl. , concrete examples, succesful stories

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Media training for civic tech comms folks?

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Media training for civic tech comms folks?

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People kept mentioning closed bubbles - could guidance on how to reach other closed bubbles specifically for this bubble help?

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A prize for a newsroom who can use data from one of the included organisations to craft a story.

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A prize for a newsroom who can use data from one of the included organisations to craft a story.

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Could actually use the money to give $500 prize over the course of 7 years - but in fact it wouldn't even have to be a monetary prize, it could just be annual recognition.

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Civic Tech Media Fellowship for Local Journalists. This fellowship will be aimed at training local journalists on best ways to report the impact of civic tech project in local new outlets (online and print).

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Civic Tech Media Fellowship for Local Journalists. This fellowship will be aimed at training local journalists on best ways to report the impact of civic tech project in local new outlets (online and print).

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Collate civic tech (/open source/ open data/ creative commons / dpg, public code) visual explainers

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Collate civic tech (/open source/ open data/ creative commons / dpg, public code) visual explainers

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Create a signposting resource / knowledge base of permissively licenced explainers about  (/open source/ open data/ creative commons / dpg, public code)

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A conference (could be online) that brought together both journalists and civic tech people. Or just a bursary that allowed civic tech people to attend journalism conferences as speakers.

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Pay a photographer to photograph some of our many abstract needs!

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Pay a photographer to photograph some of our many abstract needs!

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Create an open source photo library with images depicting things like 'corruption, 'FOI', 'transparency' etc.

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Example here: https://www.data4sdgs.org/initiatives/data4sdgs-press-fellowship-ghana

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In May 2019 the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data held its first media fellowship, with a week-long reporting trip to Ghana.

Nine selected journalists were given access to expert briefings and field trips to explore how data and technology are being used to drive progress and improve life for Ghanaians, with a focus on issues such as environmental protection, equality and inclusion and health.
Ghana Data4SDGs Press Fellowship Coverage

In May 2019 the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data held its first media fellowship, with a week-long reporting trip to Ghana.

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In May 2019 the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data held its first media fellowship, with a week-long reporting trip to Ghana. Nine selected journalists were given access to expert briefings and field trips to explore how data and technology are being used to drive progress and improve life for Ghanaians, with a focus on issues such as environmental protection, equality and inclusion and health.

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To crowdsource people-centred story ideas, with a pot to help winners turn their idea into a creative reality

As inspiration, loved this! https://pollicy.org/events/call-for-stories-tell-me-a-story-about-your-personal-experience-with-technology/

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At Pollicy, we believe literature to be an important way through which our longings, desires and identities are shared and built. Exploring the ways Africans today view technology could therefore improve our understanding of how to build inclusive and empowering technology which would be beneficial to all. These stories will go a long way, to document the contributions of Africans to advancing technology for Africa. We welcome submissions of all kinds of fiction centring the relationship between Africans and technology in the past, present and future.

Submission Process
We welcome original manuscripts from African nationals with the following guidelines:
Stories should be focused on Africa and Africans experiences with technology
Manuscripts should be no more than 5000 words
Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman, 12pt font, 1.5 spacing
Manuscripts may be submitted in doc, docx formats only
Only previously unpublished works may be submitted
Only one manuscript per author should be submitted.

Deadline
The deadline for submission of manuscripts is May 31, 2022. You should expect to hear back from us within 3 months of this deadline.

Intellectual Property Rights

Copyright in the submitted manuscript remains the property of the submitting author.

By submitting the Content to Pollicy, the submitting author hereby grants to Pollicy a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide licence to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, copy, publicly perform or display, translate or create derivative works of your content/manuscript for the full period of copyright in the manuscript including all periods of renewal, extension and revival of the copyright and thereafter in perpetuity.

The submitting author represents and warrants that he/she owns the intellectual property rights in the manuscript and that the submitted manuscript does not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

The submitting author represents and warrants that the manuscript will not contain material subject to any third-party copyright or other proprietary rights unless the submitting author has obtained all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted to Pollicy herein in respect of the submitted manuscript.

The submitting author undertakes and warrants that the manuscript does not incorporate any material that infringes any right of confidentiality or privacy, nor does it contain any obscene, blasphemous or defamatory matter, and its exploitation shall not place any person in contempt of court nor in breach of any provision of any statute;

The submitting author agrees to indemnify Pollicy and keep Pollicy indemnified at all times against all or any costs, claims, damages or expenses incurred by Pollicy, or for which Pollicy may become liable, with respect to any intellectual property infringement claim or other claim relating to the manuscript submitted by the submitting author to Pollicy

Prizes
There will be a panel to review the scripts received based on the criteria highlighted above and other agreed
Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 manuscripts and the top 15 manuscripts will be accepted for publication in our collection.
Eligibility Criteria
Africans within or outside Africa may submit
Applicants must be between the ages of 16 - 27 at the time of submission
Plagiarism is strictly prohibited.
For inquiries about your eligibility please contact favour@pollicy.org
The above eligibility criteria must be strictly adhered to avoid disqualification

If you meet the criteria CLICK HERE to register and submit!

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Africana Futurism: Speculative Fiction from Africa (Call for Stories) - Deadline Extended - Pollicy

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Pollicy is pleased to announce a Call for Submissions for the year 2022 for its inaugural short story collection. For this collection, we are interested in how Africans today living on the continent are exploring, navigating and interacting with digital technologies.

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A portal that published case studies from a load of civic tech organisations in one place

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A portal that published case studies from a load of civic tech organisations in one place

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Journalists could subscribe to/easily ask for more details - it'd be a resource for them

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Publication of glyphosate report was lawful, court rules - Research Professional News

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Germany’s highest court confirms that information on possible cancer risk of glyphosate should be public

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but optimize a civic tech value that others can't do

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Join a media-outlet as a partner into your project

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Join a media-outlet as a partner into your project

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Many media-outlets have the capacity to reach huge audiences but lack the capacity to build the type of projects that we are good at! It's a win-win relationship!

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Never wasting a 'good' crisis - connect it to your work

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Never wasting a 'good' crisis - connect it to your work

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https://digitalcharities.org/ Find this Slack community hugely useful for digital comms advice, resources and inspiration.

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Digital Charities is a group of around 1,400 people working in and for not-for-profit organisations, mostly in the UK. We share knowledge and help each other deliver compelling online campaigns, content and experiences and tech solutions for our supporters. New members and ideas for sessions are always welcome.

We regularly have meet ups with speakers in London (usually the first Weds of the month, 4-6pm) or pub evenings for networking (because the best chats are always the pub chats). We mainly share and discuss things in our online Slack workspace, and we're on Twitter too, obviously. Click the link below to join us on Slack.

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March meeting – Internal systems (intranets, doc management, team comms) | Digital Charities

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Digital Charities | A digital charity skills forum for the third sector

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Digital Charities is a group of around 1,400 people working in and for not-for-profit organisations, mostly in the UK. We share knowledge and help each other deliver compelling online campaigns, content and experiences and tech solutions for our supporters. New members and ideas for sessions are alw…

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Letters to MPs soar following Partygate fines

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A huge spike of people contacting their elected representative via WriteToThem could be seen on Tuesday, the website announced.

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Partnerships with local journalists, influencers and activists.

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Partnerships with local journalists, influencers and activists.

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using not only national, but local/regional outlets

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using not only national, but local/regional outlets

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Funding from a funder who was willing to take a chance on project different from other projects

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Funding from a funder who was willing to take a chance on project different from other projects

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https://www.mysociety.org/2022/05/04/a-transparency-success-in-belgium/

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Climate scorecards on the Guardian and in every regional newspaper

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Climate scorecards on the Guardian and in every regional newspaper

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https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/

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Want to know how effective UK councils' climate plans and strategies are? Check out the Council Climate Scorecards to see your Council's score and how it compares to others across the UK.

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Addressing licencing of copyrighted comms materials, making a case for reuse

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Addressing licencing of copyrighted comms materials, making a case for reuse

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Share purposes, distribute tasks and share resources

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Funders should be able to see that comms is as important as everything else!

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Creating partnership with local media organizations (radio, online and TV). Promotion through community Facebook groups and other online groups.

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Creating partnership with local media organizations (radio, online and TV). Promotion through community Facebook groups and other online groups.

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Think about your audiences BEFORE you launch

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Think about your audiences BEFORE you launch

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Or even before you start coding! If you know who they are you can think more systematically about where and how to reach them.

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Open democratic organizing work, but this process is slow and takes much more time than 'quick win' projects

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Open democratic organizing work, but this process is slow and takes much more time than 'quick win' projects

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Make online spaces where people (users or code installers) can chat together, share stories.

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Promoting a local Open Source Project via the Digital Public Goods registry

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Promoting a local Open Source Project via the Digital Public Goods registry

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Always assume your readers don't know everything you do about code, civic tech, open source etc etc.

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You've got to consider comms to be as essential as any other part of the project, not an add-on that you consider after launch.

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You've got to consider comms to be as essential as any other part of the project, not an add-on that you consider after launch.

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Because we can't pay market rates we spend a lot of time bringing people onboard, taking us away from building the product or amplifying it

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Resources have to be the biggest challenge. We find it hard to get enough human and material resources to visit communities and produce multimedia materials that will help amplify the work.

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Resources have to be the biggest challenge. We find it hard to get enough human and material resources to visit communities and produce multimedia materials that will help amplify the work.

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We believe in most of our projects (because the world needs them...) despite the facts about if they are really demanding them...

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As a single person researcher, I see that when I use social media I get an upturn in new users. But I don't have the time to be a comms person as well as a researcher

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Harmonising the language and overlapping concepts between Open Source, Digital Public good, Creative Commons, Civic Tech

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Harmonising the language and overlapping concepts between Open Source, Digital Public good, Creative Commons, Civic Tech

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find enough time and capacity before publishing a material/app.

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We don't always talk to a diverse audience who can be hard to reach.

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We don't always talk to a diverse audience who can be hard to reach.

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This is a wonky-seeming subject, without immediate impact, in a time when protests and other much more dramatic actions get all the attention.

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Institutional structures are not conducive to scaling up. 

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Institutional structures are not conducive to scaling up. 

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Resource, resource, resource - we could always be doing so much more if we had more capacity.

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Resource, resource, resource - we could always be doing so much more if we had more capacity.

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As a comms manager, the challenge is often persuading technical colleagues of just HOW MUCH the language needs to be simplified in public messages, so that newcomers can understand what on earth it is that we do.

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As a comms manager, the challenge is often persuading technical colleagues of just HOW MUCH the language needs to be simplified in public messages, so that newcomers can understand what on earth it is that we do.

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Connecting the value of open data/source to use cases with significant societal, democratic, economic benefits

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Connecting the value of open data/source to use cases with significant societal, democratic, economic benefits

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We're always talking to a tangle of different audiences, so it's hard to know where to pitch the narrative.

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We're always talking to a tangle of different audiences, so it's hard to know where to pitch the narrative.

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Understanding how to develop our message for different audiences as it moves from theory to practice.

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Getting interest from media outlets interested in promoting open source projects

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Getting interest from media outlets interested in promoting open source projects

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Public not aware of issues such as algorithmic harm and how it affects them individually

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Public not aware of issues such as algorithmic harm and how it affects them individually

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It's not always easy to keep track of what people are doing with our open source software.

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It's not always easy to keep track of what people are doing with our open source software.

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Our work is embedded in complex structures and not always easy to communicate to the public.

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Our work is embedded in complex structures and not always easy to communicate to the public.

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The Civic tech community is very closed hence we often overlook the essence of simplifying our stories without speaking in jargons.

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Motivate/stimulate users of your data and platform to promote or explain in their work how they have used a tool or open data set

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Motivate/stimulate users of your data and platform to promote or explain in their work how they have used a tool or open data set