ONLINE BOOTCAMP – FROM 30TH JUNE

AI for Civic Data

Building reproducible, AI-assisted data workflows for the non-profit and civil society organisations.

Master AI-assisted data workflows
Build reproducible civic data projects
Work with real NGO & open datasets
Apply AI critically and responsibly

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20h of live online sessions

Recordings and support materials

Hands-on with real civic data

Capstone Project with individualized feedback

Build AI-assisted actionable, reproducible, and trusted civic data projects

Learn how to use agentic AI tools to accelerate the entire lifecycle of a civic data project – from sourcing and verification to analysis and communication – while maintaining the methodological rigour, transparency, and accountability that professional data work requires.

You will leave with practical workflows, reusable templates, and a structured approach you can apply immediately to your own projects.

COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK

Build AI-assisted data workflows

Use agentic AI tools to support the full lifecycle of a civic data project — from sourcing and cleaning data to analysis and presentation in real workflows.

Work with real civic datasets

Practice on realistic NGO and open-data scenarios using reproducible workflows grounded in real-world cooperation and public-interest data.

Transparent and reproducible work

Develop disciplined methods for tracking sources, reviewing AI outputs, and building transparent workflows that others can verify, reuse, and audit.

Use AI critically and responsibly

Identify hallucinations, bias, and weak evidence, and learn how to integrate AI into civic and data work with methodological rigor, accountability, and ethical awareness.

This bootcamp is designed for

Data-adjacent professionals in CSOs: people who handle data as part of their job, but for whom it is not the whole of their job.
It’s important that you are comfortable with spreadsheets, have seen data projects before and have used LLMs casually; but no coding skills is required!

M&E officers & programme evaluators
Data communicators & storytellers
Independent consultants
Advocacy & campaigns staff
Staff of open-data platforms

How the bootcamp works

The bootcamp is delivered through live online sessions designed to mirror a real civic data workflow — from framing a problem to producing a reproducible output.

Live online practical sessions on Zoom

If you can’t follow it live, you can watch the recording again.

Practice-driven learning

You work on real datasets and produce tangible outputs at every stage of the data pipeline.

Real-time interaction with trainer and peers

To stress-test your approach in real time and improve your methods.

Final applied project with mentoring

You complete a real civic data project from your own context, supported by two weekly check-ins before final submission.

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The Bootcamp at a glance

USEFUL INFORMATION

Onboarding Workshop: 30th June
5 sessions over 2 weeks
On Friday and Saturday
20 h. total of live online lessons

Max 20 participants
Real NGO & open datasets
1:1 individualised final-project feedback
Final Certificate and Portfolio

Onboarding Session

Getting set up

30 June (Tuesday)
from 17:00 to 19:00 CET

A live-assisted setup before the bootcamp proper. Approximatly two hours of guided work to make sure every participant lands in Session 1 with a working environment.
You’ll also align on tools, expectations, and the collaborative workflow used throughout the course.

Session 1

Setting up the project

03 July (Friday)
from 14:00 to 18:00 CET

Introduction to agentic AI and the ethical lens. Walk-through of a real civic data brief — participants take a first pass at research questions and outline, and run their first agent interactions in a confirmed environment.
You begin shaping your first end-to-end civic data workflow, from question to execution.
*Micro breaks throughout the session.

Session 2

Sourcing real data, responsibly

04 July (Saturday)
from 10:00 to 17:30* CET

Data discovery, sourcing from open data platforms (including Open Cooperazione platform where relevant), API extraction, structured scraping, and task decomposition with the agent. Heavy emphasis on documentation discipline.
You learn how to turn messy, distributed data sources into structured and usable inputs for analysis.
*Lunch Break from 13:00 to 14:30 plus micro breaks throughout the session

Session 3

Building trust in your dataset

10 July (Friday)
from 14:00 to 18:00 CET

Collaborative review using Google Sheets. Automated cleaning versus human-in-the-loop review. This is the session where the critical verification habits — the ones that make AI-assisted work defensible — are drilled.
You actively stress-test your data and learn how to detect errors, bias, and hallucinations.
*Micro breaks throughout the session.

Session 4

From insight to publishable output

11 July (Friday)
from 10:00 to 17:30* CET

Turning research questions into analysis questions; extracting and stress-testing insights; choosing the best way to present your data. Closing block on reproducibility, hand-off to colleagues, ethics wrap-up, and forward-looking reflection.
You move from analysis to communication, producing outputs that are clear, transparent, and reusable.
*Lunch Break from 13:00 to 14:30 plus micro breaks throughout the session

THE CAPSTONE

Mentored final project

Within two weeks of the final session

Participants submit a short, reproducible data-driven deliverable, applying the bootcamp workflow end-to-end to a brief drawn from their real work.
The project is supported through group check-ins and individual feedback, ensuring real-world application beyond the course.
*Micro breaks throughout the session.

Why AI matters for civic data work

AI is changing how organisations collect, analyse, and communicate data – especially in the public interest sector.

For NGOs, civic organisations, and international cooperation actors, AI tools can dramatically accelerate research, analysis, and reporting workflows. But speed alone is not enough: civic data work requires transparency, verification, and accountability.

This bootcamp helps practitioners use AI in a practical and responsible way, building workflows that are not only faster, but also reproducible, trustworthy, and grounded in real-world data practice.

Our price: Ethical and Sustainable

One Standard fee: Accessibille to All

A fair price, designed to ensure everyone has access to high-quality training.

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Lecturer

Cédric Lombion

^{Through his work over the past 10 years, Cedric has designed, managed and fundraised for global open data and data literacy projects, navigating both high-level strategic planning and on-the-ground work with civil society organisations, governments, journalists and citizens. In the process, his and his teams’ work have reached thousands of people and hundreds of organisations across sectors as varied as government transparency, the extractives industry, environmental justice, public health and investigative journalism. Speaking English, French and Spanish, he has managed remote teams spread over multiple continents.
Following his role as the data and innovation Lead at the Open Knowledge Foundation he started Civic Literacy Initiative, a nonprofit consultancy aiming to move forward best practices
around data and AI capacity-building.
linkedin.com/in/cedriclombion}