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Civic technology around the world
A template was added to the section today, this section needs expansion and could incorporate more historical aspects better. Some "government-led initiatives" could include adding in the links to various branches of government involved with civic tech and explaining their roles. Jooojay (talk) 21:25, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hello! This article does a great job at providing information related to civic technology. It provides an array of categories and examples to explain civic tech; however, the important parts/definitions of this article seem to get lost among random facts and examples. The definition section could use reworking because essentially by its title it is meant to serve a similar purpose as the lead section. This section relies too heavily on sources as it uses the Knight Foundation extensively to define civic tech and its purpose. In this sense, this section is written like a research paper as it primarily lists facts and attempts to leave an analysis. I think it may be useful to break up this "definition" section into multiple parts to define civic tech in terms of social media, modern businesses, relationship with citizens, and so on. I especially think there should be an entire section dedicated to social media's engagement in civic technology that is broken down into Facebook, twitter, instagram, etc instead of having this topic dispersed throughout the article–as a read it will be easier to follow this way. This section also mentions voting insecurity briefly and provides examples of digital voting advancements; this seems a bit out of place maybe consider moving part of this to the section on civic hacking. As well, the "civic technology around the world" section relies too heavily on its sources to intro this topic. It also provides too many example countries to be relevant. It might be useful to organize this section by "citizen-led initiatives" and "government-led initiatives" and then placing countries under these categories. Overall, the information and sources are there but I think the article needs to be reorganized to provide a better flow of information. The language of the article at times is too argumentative; perhaps consider making it have a more consistent neutral tone throughout. Alyssaamoreno (talk) 06:16, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Organization of "Civic Technology Around the World"
Hello fellow wikipedians! My name is Simran Kaur and I am an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley working on improving the organization of the section "civic technology around the world". The way it is currently organized, it doesn't quite flow and its hard to find information. I've thought of organizing all the countries in a chart, including the country name, the initiative name in that country, and whether it's a "citizen led initiative", "government led initiative" or "other". Does anyone in the community have any other ideas the content could be organized ? Classikhgirl (talk) 08:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I am sorry, I don't understand. Are you talking about creating an infographic for the article? What does "other" mean in this context (what would be in that category)? Have you seen other articles with what you are proposing? Jooojay (talk) 07:30, 21 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes! I mean creating a chart that has every country mentioned and all the initiatives that have been talked in this article labeled in their respective country. On the main space, underneath every country the previous author has labeled initiatives as "citizen led" or "government led" initiatives- meaning that the initiative had been started by a government or was it started by a citizen. I think the inclusion of an "other" category might not work, you're right. Classikhgirl (talk) 21:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Could this chart get updated? The current state of this article has not had the section "civic technology around the world" fully filled out or cited. Jooojay (talk) 05:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Civic Technology Corrections and suggestions
I found that reference 6 is not working at all and that reference 40 is a blog post. 6.) "Knight Foundation" 40.) "Le blog de la mission Etalab | Service du Premier Ministre chargé de l'ouverture des données publiques et du développement de la plateforme française OpenData" Citations Bracken, John, and Megan Zimroth. “Building a Better Democracy with Civic Tech.” Knight Foundation, www.knightfoundation.org/articles/building-better-democracy-civic-tech.

“Le Blog D'Etalab.” The First French Collaborative National Address Database Is Now Online, and Freely Accessible. | Le Blog D'Etalab, www.etalab.gouv.fr/.

Many of the links on this page are primary sources about this subject, which leads to showing bias depending on the link. I feel that there should be more hyperlinks to other wikipedia pages or other non-biased and informative websites in order to keep the bias-free look to our audience. Mikekelson12345 (talk) 19:54, 15 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello Mikekelson12345, feel free to replace the citations with better sources you find, or work on improving the article. I believe the article is already tagged re: primary sources. Also dead links are sometimes replaced by a bot with a web archived version of the link - if you tag them for dead link. Jooojay (talk) 19:57, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Latin America: The Rise of Civic Technology
At the center of this revolution, companies such as Omidyar Network and Fundación Avina have partnered to provide money and resources to support 26 individual civic technology projects in nine Latin American countries. Other programs that are partaking in this revolution are; A Tu Servicio in Uruguay, which educates and updates its citizens about their public health care services, Caminos de la Villa in Argentina, and TEDIC. These programs are looking to inform its citizens and educate them on the benefits of civic engagement and the helpfulness of civic technology. Mikekelson12345 (talk) 21:40, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

This is a suggestion and was looking for any other help to improve what I put. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikekelson12345 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 21 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I think your idea is good, but your using a lot of external linking (which is something we try to limit on WP, so within the actual article we would not add this, see External links). The citations your using are self published by these companies Identifying reliable sources, which is something we are wary of at WP because of bias of information. Are you not able to find any related news articles or books? Jooojay (talk) 08:34, 23 November 2018 (UTC)