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Political Apathy Reorganization
New Lead: Political Apathy is created by a feeling of powerlessness in the sense of politics. It can consist of interest apathy, voter apathy, and information apathy. It can be categorized as the indifference of an individual and a lack of interest in participating in political activities. This includes lack of interest in elections, political events, pubic meetings, and voting. Political apathy can lead to low voter turnout and stagnation in a state's government. Political apathy can lead to a loss of democracy and respondents mentioned it can also have social and psychological damage due to lack of personal political interaction According to The North American Review, lack of participation can lead to "political ills" such as corruption and dishonesty among politicians as they are not held accountable. Countries with mandatory voting has seen less occurrences of political and voter apathy. In Belgium political participation is at 87.2% while in Turkey, it is 84.3%

Political apathy is found among younger voters, the poor, and minority groups. The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) breaks down youths into different groups, Broadly Engaged (19%), Political Specialists (19%) and Only Voted (18%) The rest of the youth population clustered into Civically Alienated (16%), Politically Marginalized (14%) and Engaged Non-Voters (14%). In 2010, only 21% of youths eligible to vote in the United States between ages 18-21 voted or were politically active. If the youth were to participate in the political processes Congress consist of a larger number of younger Congress members.

Political Apathy in The United States
In the 2016 Presidential election, the U.S. turnout was 54.87%, while in the midterm elections of 2014 there was a historic low of 36.7% turnout to the elections out of 84.3% of the population that was eligible to vote. In a study conducted by YouGov, the question "Suppose that you alone could determine whether a Democrat or a Republican represents your Congressional district by paying a specific dollar amount. How much would you be willing to pay to ensure that a Congressman from your preferred party will win the office?" was as asked to multiple American. 55% of the people answered that they would contribute nothing to help their district. This study concluded that some Americans are not interested enough in politics to put hypothetical money to a candidate. Based on government data, in the last 60 years eligible voters that have cast a ballot has ranged from 49 to 63%. The highest turnout occurred in the 1960 election in which President John F. Kennedy was elected, while the lowest turnout occurred in 1996 with the election fo President Bill Clinton.

In a Google study on "Interested Bystanders," experts discovered that 48.9% of people in America are paying attention to the political world but not voicing any opinion on the matter (non-voting, non-volunteering for campaigns etc.), thus increasing political, and voter apathy in America. ""

DataKind
DataKind is a nonprofit, pro bono data group with the goal of offering data services through Data Scientists to many different Non-Profit organizations that require them. It was founded in 2011 by former New York Times data scientist Jake Porway. DataKind has Chapters in New York, London Bangalore, Dublin, Singapore, Washington, and San Francisco. The Local chapters aim at assisting other nonprofits in the area with technical data analysis. The sectors they focus on include urban governance, civic engagement, and microfinance DataKind is comprised of three sections that each provide similar services. They include the DataKind Lab, DataCorps, and DataDives

Mission Statement:
DataKind founder and Executive Director, Jake Porway, claims the DataKind's mission is to bring Data Science to those that share the view of having a sustainable planet, where everyone has access to their basic needs. DataKind aims at providing the necessary resources through data scientists to allow the Non-profit organizations a chance at dealing with issues in the same way Wall Street and Silicon Valley can.

DataKind's main goal revolves around applying the same algorithms and techniques utilized by larger for-profit corporations, to organizations that advocate for improving the world and cannot afford this type of advancement. The "social-change" organizations are then able to take advantage of the skills and apply them to advocate for missions such as fighting world hunger and the well being of others.

DataKind Labs
DataKind Labs partners with nonprofits, corporations, foundations, and government agencies to develop and deploy solutions to many of societies issues. The year long projects they work on is lead by DataKind's Data Scientist, while pro bono experts may be called in to assist.

Vision Zero
As of 2015 the Labs have worked on finding ways to increase Traffic Safety in a partnership with Microsoft, local governments, police departments and the health departments. The project, code named Vision Zero after the Swedish initiative of 1990, aims at reducing traffic related deaths and injuries to zero.

Currently, DataKind Labs is working with the City of New York, San Jose, New Orleans and Seattle and the Department of Transportation to best predict the areas that can utilize this initiative to eliminate traffic related deaths.

Ethiopian Wheat Rust
As of December 9th, 2016, DataKind labs has began collaborating with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to predict Wheat Rust in Ethiopia. DataKind is targeting this area as understanding the spread of fungi though Ethiopia will allow a solution to be presented to attack Ethiopia's hunger and poverty issues. This project will aim at predicting the spread of wheat rust through the use of satellite images.

DataCorps
DataKind's DataCorps has a main focus on tackling long term projects by utilizing pro bono data scientists. DataKind focuses on issues by teaming up with social change organizations to diagnose the problem. Through various forms of advanced analytics, the data scientists at DataCorp provide a series of possible solutions.

VOTO Mobile
DataCorps worked with VOTO Mobile, a West African social enterprise, in an attempt to give a voice to the people in rural areas.The goal of VOTO Mobile was to survey people in remote areas that are usually underrepresented in data. The issue revolved around the lack of responses due to low literacy in the area as well as lack of technology to survey the population in the rural areas. DataCorps was sponsored by Google to provide a solution to this problem. By analyzing the data the VOTO Mobile the DataCorps team was able to provide a series of recommendations to enhance data collection and database structure.

Amnesty International
DataKind has provided assistance to Amnesty International. The program they assisted with aimed at predicting Human Rights Violations using the data they had from previous violations. This preliminary program looked through past call data received by Amnesty International and utilized the urgency level to predict where a violation or cry for help may occur. The preliminary stage was completed, and investments will be needed to fund the final project.

Donors:
DataKind obtains funds through independent donors through their website as well as larger donations and sponsors. Their main support comes from organizations such as the Knight Foundation, The Tableau Foundation and Companies like IBM, Microsoft, and AT&T. Recently, EBay founder Pierre Omidyar's network donated $2 million USD to DataKind to continue its mission.

Lead:
Civic Engagement is defined as citizens working together to make a change or difference in the community. Civic engagement includes communities working together in both political and non-political actions. The goal of civic engagement is to address public concerns and promote the quality of the community.

Technology (additional information)
The Knight Foundation outlines 4 different ways technology can assist in Civic Engagement. The 4 different ways include upgrading and providing E-Services, making information more transparent, allowing E-Democracy, and a service they call co-production.

E-Services would allow digital technologies to improve the efficiency of urban services within a city. This would allow the services to become more effective as well as give the public a way to get involved. E-Democracy and Co-Production would work by allowing citizens to shape public policy by allowing them to partake in actions through technology. The Knight Foundation claims technology can make information more transparent, allowing the public to access the information and get involved.

"Nowadays, the internet has become the main social media outlet and it can also assist in creating an "Internet Citizenship". Xenos and Moy found that the internet does help civic engagement but also give "unjustifiable euphoria, abrupt and equally unjustifiable skepticism, and gradual realization that web-based human interaction really does have unique and politically significant properties". We have all the information we want about and candidate at our fingertips, and the wealth of information is creating a more informed body. But with this comes misinformation and the two collide and do the opposite, creating a public with clashing opinions." ADDED SOURCES to existing section