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Latest revision as of 21:56, 18 May 2016

This is a comprehensive global directory of online groups about the use of technology for open government, public participation, community building and democracy. Please recommend "two-way" places with real life to them.

E-Democracy.org directly hosts some key spaces. This includes the 2200+ member Open Government and Civic Technology Facebook Group for general open government/transparency/participation discussion, the Digital Inclusion Network, and Locals Online for hosts of local online forums/blogs/social networking groups.

As part of our educational mission, we monitor many of the online spaces below and forward notable content via Democracies Online Newswire and @democracy on Twitter.

A new listing of Facebook Groups and LinkedIn Groups is below.

Most Active Online Groups

• Int'l - Open Government and Civic Technology Facebook Group
• US - Code for America Brigade - See local Brigade sites for local online groups like BetaNYC, Open Twin Cities, etc.
• - mySociety.org Lists and Newsletters
• Int'l - Liberation Tech
• Open Government Partnership - Civil Society - Parliamentary Monitoring - US - UK
• Int'l - Digital Inclusion - DigitalDivide@ Reborn
• Int'l/UK - E-Campaigning Forum
• Int'l - Open Government Data - More Open Knowledge Foundation Lists
• Open Gov - Sweden
• Transparency Hackers - Brazil
• US - National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
• Open Data Stack Exchange
• Reddit - Sunlight - Open Data Reddit - Datasets
• Open Government Google+ Community
• Government 2.0 LinkedIn Group
• Gobierno Digital Latin America and Spain - Facebook Group
• Key e-newsletters: GovLab Digest, Democracies Online Newswire, Civicist, Sunlight Foundation Today in Open Gov

Mailing Lists - National by Country

More

• Int'l - Open Knowledge Foundation E-List
• Int'l/US - CityCamp Exchange
• Int'l - Democracies Online Exchange (and Newswire)
• US - Sunlight Labs
• UK - Democracy Club
• UK Open Government Forum
• Int'l - W3C eGovernment Interest Group
• US - Progressive Exchange - E-advocacy - restricted to left of center
• Open Australia
• UK - Idea Local Gov Communities of Practice - Social Media and Online Collaboration.
• Int'l - Global Open Data Initiative
• Int'l - US/UK/NZ+ E-Democracy.org Projects Online Group/List
• Argentina - Eudemocracia, NGO
• Int'l - OpenSpending
• Int'l - New Tactics in Human Rights
• Int'l - Technology for Transparency Network
• Int'l - Participatory Budgeting
• Australia - Gov 2.0 List
• Civic Access Canada replaced Canada - Visible Government List
• South Africa Open Data and Democracy Initiative
• Canada - Change Camp List
• EU - ePractice.eu - Many groups
• Germany - Open Data Network List
• New Zealand - Open Govt Data List
• Spain - Pro Bono Publico
• UK "Camps" Lists - LocalGovCamp. Talk About Local
• US - Locals Online
• US - Gov APIs - New
• US - MuniGov 2.0
• US - Placebloggers
• US - Citizens for Open Government
• US - Transparency Bloggers
• US Poliparse
• US Open Government Directive Discussion List
• US Participatory Budgeting List
• US Sunshine Bloggers
• US Sunlight - The Open House Project List
• Citability.org
• US "Camps" Lists - Transparency Camp, Participation/eDemocracy Camp, Gov 2.0 Camp, Public Media
• Transparency Hackers Brazil
• Riseup.net - Tech Activism Lists
• US GovLoop Social Net - Specific groups:
  • Social Media for Government, Munigov 2.0, Gov 2.0 Club, Gov 2.0 Consultants, Twitterati, Collaboration Project, More

Facebook Groups

• Gobierno Digital Latin America and Spain - https://www.facebook.com/groups/615632448501473/
• German - https://www.facebook.com/groups/open4gov/
• Finnish Open Data Ecosystem - https://www.facebook.com/groups/fi.okfn/
• Sweden - https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengov
• Open Knowledge Korea - https://www.facebook.com/groups/OKFNKorea/
• g0v.tw Taiwan - https://www.facebook.com/groups/g0v.general/
• Code for Hong Kong - https://www.facebook.com/groups/code4hk/
• Open Data Community of Hong Kong - https://www.facebook.com/groups/opendatahongkong/
• Open Gov Tunisia - https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovtn/
• Code for Japan - https://www.facebook.com/groups/codeforjapan/
• ePartizipation (German) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/epartizipation/
• Jordan - https://www.facebook.com/groups/597980153566838/ E-Commerce and E-Government
• Kenya - https://www.facebook.com/groups/320819266198/ iHub Innovation Centre
• Data Driven Journalism - https://www.facebook.com/groups/151130095090398/
• International Association for Public Participation - https://www.facebook.com/groups/11982150193/
• eLearning Africa Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/17387268602/
• Participatory Budgeting - https://www.facebook.com/groups/participatory/
• ICT4D - https://www.facebook.com/groups/28349321125/ - Small One
• ICT4D - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2553350463/ - Big One
• Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/36351853660/
• Digital Government Society - https://www.facebook.com/groups/dgsna/
• DC Gov 2.0 - https://www.facebook.com/groups/dcgov20/
• Public Media Innovators - https://www.facebook.com/groups/publicmediainnovators/
• Internet Society DC - https://www.facebook.com/groups/isoc.dc/
• International Conference on eParticipation (ePart) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/170879797609/
• Innovation Journalism - https://www.facebook.com/groups/innovationjournalism/
• Open Data Innovation Network - https://www.facebook.com/groups/opendatainnovationnetwork/
• CityHackers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/citycampmty/
• EU Citadel on the Move - https://www.facebook.com/groups/205450362899979/
• OpenData - https://www.facebook.com/groups/open4data/
• Bulgaria E-Participation - https://www.facebook.com/groups/370067938955/
• Bolivia Democratic Governance 2.0 - https://www.facebook.com/groups/gobdemocratica/
• Global City 2.0 - https://www.facebook.com/groups/CityCivicMovements/
• Smart Cities (Arabic) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/smartcities2020/
• Smart and Sustainable Cities by CMCC - https://www.facebook.com/groups/smartcmcc/
• Tunisia Open Gov - https://www.facebook.com/groups/325622444170653/
• OpenData Taiwan - https://www.facebook.com/groups/odtwn/
• The Smart City (Persian) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesmartcities/
• SmartCities2020 (Persian) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/smartcities2020/
• Smart Cities Citizen Innovation - https://www.facebook.com/groups/330714193679289
• Open Data Malaysia - https://www.facebook.com/groups/151701794871109
• Open Data Alliance China - https://www.facebook.com/groups/opendataalliance/
• Innovation Africa - https://www.facebook.com/groups/Innoafrica/
• Hybrid Smart Cities - https://www.facebook.com/groups/100502470098965/
• Open-Government Australia - https://www.facebook.com/groups/388242667859393/
• Free Government Information (FGI) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/142816150342/
• OpenData et Médiation Numérique https://www.facebook.com/groups/314484618669700/
• Code for America Chicago - https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfachicago/
• eND - Elektronska neposredna demokracija - https://www.facebook.com/groups/121835317925547/
• Open Government - German - https://www.facebook.com/groups/open4gov/
• Knowledge Unplugged - Open Access for the World - https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockurpaper/
• Vive l'Opendata ! - https://www.facebook.com/groups/228662477159514/
• Digital Sunrise Europe Team - https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalsunrise/
• ICT4D - e-Tanzania - https://www.facebook.com/groups/88952271711/
• Linked Open Data Japan - https://www.facebook.com/groups/130625107020532/
• More groups to add - for now see the groups Steven Clift is monitoring for inclusion here.

LinkedIn Groups

• Government 2.0 - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=91073
• Online Community Engagement - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Online-Community-Engagement-3900594
• Open Government in the Arab States - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4850889
• Community Engagement - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=43838
• Civic Engagement and Dialogue Practitioners - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Civic-Engagement-Dialogue-Practitioners-1817455
• Open Government - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2076501
• eGov Community - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=62895
• National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/National-Coalition-Dialogue-Deliberation-NCDD-990997
• Gov 2.0 Events (not very active) - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1834096
• Tech@State - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Tech-State-3665160
• Sunlight Foundation Government Transparency Group - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Sunlight-Foundation-Government-Transparency-Group-3210802
• Smart Cities and City 2.0 - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SMART-CITIES-CITY-20-1891608
• Smart Cities Project - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Smart-Cities-Project-2034271
• Smart Cities Latin America - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Smart-Cities-LatAm-Ciudades-Inteligentes-4723907
• Smarter Cities - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1935066

Twitter Hashtags to Watch

• #opengov - Open Government
• #opendata - Open Government Data
• #hyperlocal - Hyper Local Content
• #cfabrigade -
• #citycamp - Local gov 2.0, participation, transparency
• #edemo - All things "e-democracy"
• #gov20 - Government 2.0
• #demopart - Democratic Participation
• #nptech - Non-Profit Technology
• #edtech - Educational Technology
• #socent - Social Entrepreneurship
• #civictech - Civic Technology
• #sharingeconomy - Sharing Economy

Country Specific Hashtags

• #ogpIRL - Open Gov Ireland
• #gov2au - Gov 2.0 Australia

Project Specific

• Poplus
• Civic Data Standards
• Google Civic Information API
• DemocracyMap
• US Gov Github
• Need to add links

IRC Channels

• #codeforamerica
• #sunlightlabs
• #mschat (mySociety)
• #openplans
• #localwiki
• #openparliament
• #opennews
• #poplus

Local by City/State/Province

For the multi-city online group, see CityCamp.

Many more to add ...

• Open Data Manchester, UK
• Chicago OpenGov List - Meetup - City Hack Night
• Colorado Smart Communities
• Los Angeles Gov 2.0 Discussion/Twitter
• Open Twin Cities Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN
• Minnesota Voices List
• Gov 2.0 Camp New England
• New York City - Open Government NYC List - Meetup
• SpeakUpNY - Meetup, Civic Engagement Online
• Providence, RI - Mashable City List
• San Francisco - OpenSF Blog
• Toronto - DataTo - List

Background

There are dozens of online groups, from those on mailing lists and Google Groups to group blogs and Twitter hashtag communities, connecting people interested in the use of technology for government transparency, public participation, and community building.

At the national/global level there will never be one unified place people exchange knowledge on these topics as people and interests specialize. However at the local or state level, online spaces tend to be more unified but almost impossible to find for new people wanting to get involved. So this is our place to start a simple directory of those local/state online groups that are emerging.