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<p>[W]hen we see free software—and we have a very long free software culture/movement—we always think of freedom of assembly freedom of speech, instead of freedom of cost, because we know that freedom is never free of cost. Our parents’ generation, our grandparent’s generation, paid dearly for it and we need to use software freedoms to keep it free.</p>
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<cite>Audrey Tang—Taiwan’s Digital Minister, <a href="https://youtu.be/5DkhUO7LiGs?t=5m56s">Stories from the Future of Democracy.</a></cite>
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<p>Know of a group or resource that belongs on this list? <a href="https://github.com/thebestsophist/decolonizing-civic-tech">Make a pull request</a>.</p>

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<li><a href="https://github.com/g0v/amis-moedict">amis-moedict 阿美語萌典網站</a> — Amis is the language of the Amis, an aboriginal Taiwanese community. The language has fewer than 200,000 native speakers. Civic hackers from the g0v community built a pronounciation dictionary to help record it for others.</li>
<li><a href="https://civica.digital/servicios/">CIVICA DIGITAL</a> — Cívica Digital is a team specialized in civic technology based in Monterrey, Mexico. They are a diverse group of people, with an exclusive focus on designing and developing digital products with technical quality and a great user experience. They’ve built software that is based on the mexican law infrastructure, instead of importing services from other places in the world.</li>
<li><a href="http://consulproject.org/en/">CONSUL</a> — Free software for citizen participation in policy making and writing laws, by the city of Madrid, Spain.</li>
<li><a href="https://decidim.org">Decidim</a> — Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations, created by the City of Barcelona.</li>
<li><a href="https://exploralat.am/en">EXPLORA LATAM</a> — Map showing the diversity of civic tech “south of the border”. Great example of how civic tech sprouts from the contextual gaps in national governments.</li>
<li><a href="https://g0v.tw/en-US/">g0v.tw 後勤中心</a> — a decentralized civic tech community in Taiwan, which works on civic and community projects that range from building dictionaries of indigenous languages to open source hardware and servers that track air particulate and pollution, to open government data to collaboration with the government to build tools for public input for public policy problems.</li>
<li><a href="https://pdis.nat.gov.tw/en/">Public Digital Innovation Space</a> — PDIS is a ministry-level office in the Taiwanese government that incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service.</li>
<li><a href="http://softwarepublicoregionalbeta.net/">REGIONAL PUBLIC SOFTWARE</a> — Latin-american project to build public software to be co-created between national governments taking an open-end approach.</li>
<li><a href="http://softwarepublicoregionalbeta.net/catalog/projects/SINMA-LAT">SINMA-LAT</a> — Adaptation project based on a specific national government’s need to disaster relief using open-source and NGO’s data. (Also worth mentioning Veriicado 19s platform for GIS open collaboration following the September 2017 earthquake).</li>
<li><a href="http://vtaiwan.tw">vTaiwan</a> — vTaiwan is an online-offline consultation process which brings together government ministries, elected representatives, scholars, experts, business leaders, civil society organizations and citizens. The process helps lawmakers implement decisions with a greater degree of legitimacy.</li>
<li><a href="http://www2.redgealc.org/site/assets/files/6818/tenoli-bs.pdf">X-LAT</a> — International cooperation of public software application between governments. El Salvador adapted the X-road Architecture to a Latin-American context.</li>
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