🛠️ Civic Technology
Technology where citizens use their own expertise to solve social problems. Parti integrates everything citizens do to build data, tools, and code — under the unified concept of Civic Technology. Data is one form among many; on top of data sit analysis, visualization, civic projects, and civic hacking, all working together as an ecosystem.
Table of contents
Platform Features
Spaces where citizens build their own data, tools, and technical assets.
1. Parti Civic Tech Platform
✅ Implemented
Parti’s civic-technology platform where citizens build datasets, initiate projects, and share analysis results. Datasets, projects, stories, proposals, and meetings all connect in one place.
2. Citizen Dataset Curation & Archive
✅ Implemented
An archive of citizen-built datasets curated and made freely available. Examples include the Korean Comfort Women Memorial Statue records, care-labor statistics, Supreme Court en banc judgments, the 2023 Climate Crisis Public Opinion Survey, and the 6411 Bus First Passenger Analysis — all datasets created by citizens themselves.
3. Citizen Data Visualization & Analysis Tools
✅ Implemented
Tools for citizens to visualize and analyze their own data. User-friendly interfaces designed so that citizens without coding skills can still draw meaningful insights.
4. Parti Citizen Policy Database
✅ Implemented
⭐ Parti Original
A systematically organized database of citizen policy proposals from 200+ public forums and citizen campaigns Parti has operated over the past decade. A case where Parti’s operational experience itself became a digital public good.
Event Formats & Methodologies
Parti’s programs through which citizens build civic technology.
5. Citizen Data Lab · Civic Hacking Lab
✅ Implemented
⭐ Parti Original
Parti’s laboratory programs where citizens directly build datasets, conduct analysis, and solve social problems. Operated in various regions and with various participants — Daegu Civic Data Lab, Gwangju Youth “I’m Also a Data Activist,” and more — these labs are core pathways for citizens to grow into civic hackers.
6. Civic Hacking Project Incubation
✅ Implemented
Civic hacking project incubation operated jointly with the Code for Korea network. Supports the full journey: citizens discover social problems through their own expertise, then build solutions themselves.
7. Citizen Data Education & Workshops
✅ Implemented
Education and workshops building citizens’ capacity to handle data, visualize it, and discover its social meaning. Parti has operated these in collaboration with various institutions and regions.
Signature Projects
Real-world changes made by civic technology.
8. COVID-19 Mask App · Personal Safety Number
✅ Implemented
The most internationally recognized civic-tech case from the Code for Korea network during the 2020 COVID-19 response. Proposed and led by Parti chair Ohyeon Kweon within the Code for Korea network, the project used the government’s public mask supply data to build a citizen-facing app and proposed the Personal Safety Number model balancing privacy with public interest. Recognized by the Minister’s Award from Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT.
9. Ansim Hospital · Ansim-i
✅ Implemented
One of Korea’s first civic hacking projects, started in 2012 within the Code Namu (Code Tree) community. A tool allowing citizens to directly check safe hospital information, led by Parti chair Ohyeon Kweon and later evolved into Ansim-i within the Code for Korea network. Recorded as a starting point of Korea’s civic-tech movement.
10. Urban Forest Data with Citizens
✅ Implemented
An urban-forest data project built jointly by Parti, Chuncheon Social Innovation Center, and Chuncheon City Hall. A case where citizens directly observed and measured urban forests in their own neighborhoods, influencing city policy through the data they created.
11. Everyday Observers — Our Neighborhood Handcarts
✅ Implemented
A citizen-observation data project operated with Chuncheon Social Innovation Center. Citizens observed handcart users in their own neighborhoods, and through that data brought into view the invisible reality of urban labor.
12. Diverse Citizen Datasets
✅ Implemented
Parti’s civic-tech platform hosts a wide range of citizen-built datasets — the Korean Comfort Women Memorial Statue records, care-labor statistics, the 6411 Bus First Passenger Analysis, Supreme Court en banc judgments, the 2023 Climate Crisis Public Opinion Survey, interviews with women at the 2030 impeachment rallies, and more. Each dataset is the outcome of a citizen civic-hacking project.
Future Directions
The next leap for civic technology.
13. Citizen Data Trust
⬜ Future Direction
A trust structure where citizen data is owned and operated by citizens themselves. In an era when Big Tech extracts massive profits from citizen data, this model returns sovereignty to citizens and lets them decide together how their data is used. Parti’s distinctive approach emerges where its civic-data platform meets its cooperative structure.
14. Korean Public-Interest Datasets for AI Training
⬜ Future Direction
As ownership and provenance of AI training data become increasingly important, refining and releasing citizen-built Korean public-interest data for AI training. Parti’s citizen policy DB, public-forum records, and citizen datasets provide the foundation.
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