The Social Simulator is a hands-on, private environment to practice using the language, tools and norms of the social web for social media PR and crisis response

BudgIT is creative start-up driven to retell the Nigerian budget and public data  in a finer detail across every literacy span.  We aim to stimulate citizens interests around public data and hence trigger  discussions towards better governance. We are committed to principles of open data & governance, citizen participation and data transparency. 

MIT course on agent-based modeling for health policy with AnyLogic Nathaniel Osgood - Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan made a MIT graduate based course on agent-based modeling for health policy with AnyLogic. Please find the original materias here. Material from other supporting lectures and tutorials outside of the scope of this course can be accessed here. This page includes separate tables of materials for both lectures and Java for AnyLogic tutorials; assignments are also available.

The Open Data Platform Junar provides a cloud-based platform for opening data to drive innovation, collaboration, and to meet legislative goals."

"Hypothes.is will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community peer-review. It will work as an overlay on top of any stable content, including news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more-without requiring participation of the underlying site. "

"Agenda digitale: la Cabina di Regia avvia 'consultazione social' per contribuire ai lavori dell'Agenda Digitale Italiana. I risultati della prima settimana Dal 26 aprile al 1° maggio, la piattaforma ha avuto quasi 5000 accessi, con 3700 visitatori unici, il 9% dei quali da dispositivi mobili. "

Results: Participatory health is a growing area with individuals using health social networks, crowdsourced studies, smartphone health applications, and personal health records to achieve positive outcomes for a variety of health conditions. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. These operators have published findings in the areas of disease research, drug response, user experience in crowdsourced studies, and genetic association. Quantified Self, Genomera, and DIYgenomics are communities of participant-organized health research studies where individuals conduct self-experimentation and group studies. Crowdsourced health research studies have a diversity of intended outcomes and levels of scientific rigor.s

Sentiment analysis is a tricky thing. Even humans disagree on sentiment 15 percent of the time, so how can a computer create something more accurate?

The White House Recently asked citizens to post suggestions on how to improve regulations.gov, data.gov, and the Federal web strategy. This is part two of a multi-part series on how to and more importantly, why we should consider changing the way these, (potentially) game-changing efforts could be improved. Here, we present some comments for regulations.gov and some suggestions on how changes could help improve the federal rulemaking process.

UserVoice creates simple online feedback, help desk and knowledge base software. Our insight and support platforms enable businesses to understand and engage with customers with ease.

smartvote is a so-called online voting advice application (VAA). Based on a comprehensive questionnaire on political issues it compares the political positions of voters with those of political parties and candidates. Voters receive a voting advise in form of a position-matching. smartvote exists since 2003. Developper and operater is the non profit organization Politools. During the electoral campaign of the 2011 national elections smartvote was used more than 1.2 million times.