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Red Hook Initiative
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USACommunity based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.
AI Forensics
ItalyAI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Urban Ocean Lab
San FranciscoUrban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.
Red Hook Hub
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USAThe Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the HUB was developed by a team of local organizations and residents. Special thanks to the Red Hook Coalition, Red Hook Communications Working Group, Red Hook Initiative, Good Shepherd Services and the Brooklyn Public Library Red Hook Branch for their commitment to seeing the HUB through to its fruition. The Hub collects and displays information relevant to community needs, during both crisis and non-crisis conditions. The Hub consists of participatory content, where anyone can post information, as well as official content shared by the Hub coordinator and community partners. The physical structures are strategically placed throughout the community.
Red Hook WiFi
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USARed Hook WiFi, a project of Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.
Clean Insights gives developers a way to plug into a secure, private measurement platform.
Bixal
Fairfax, VAA mission-driven organization determined to improve people’s lives through human-centered strategies and transformative technologies. We deliver on this promise by partnering with leading federal agencies to conceive and create powerful data-driven customer experiences.
We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society
The Digital Security Community Directory of security and safety resources available in various Southeast Asian languages
A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023
MyCandidate
South AfricaThe MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.
electobox
Athenselectobox is a secure and easy to use online voting software, capable of conducting elections and referendums of any scale
We help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.
EngageMedia
ThailandEngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.
Portugal Participa Rede
PortugalA Rede de Autarquias Participativas pretende ser uma estrutura colaborativa que congrega todas as autarquias portuguesas comprometidas com o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de democracia participativa a nível local.
We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.
Connect Humanity published the State of Digital Inequity Report in partnership with TechSoup. The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.
Maino Tech
FinlandWe provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making. Our Services
VoteRookie
GermanyVote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.
Sequent
Los Angeles, CASequent is a next-generation online voting platform purposely built to ensure the highest level of confidence in digital elections for election managers, voters and auditors
Assembly Voting
CopenhagenOur end-to-end verifiable, secure, online election technology, proves the integrity of democratic processes and verifies the accuracy of voting results, without losing flexibility and ability for customization
Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.
A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment
Alliance of Democracies
BrusselsThe Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.
Copenhagen Democracy Summit
CopenhagenThe Copenhagen Democracy Summit is an annual conference bringing together political and business leaders, including current and former heads of government, from the world’s democracies.
The Knight-Georgetown Institute
Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United StatesGeorgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.
Our democracy tech entrepreneurs fellows are selected from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, which all live in the menacing shadow of Russia.
The United States Web Design System (USWDS)
Washington, DCA design system for the federal government.
GOV.UK Design System
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.
Bloom Housing
San FranciscoA modern system that helps people learn about, apply for, and gain access to affordable housing
Exygy
San FranciscoWe partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.
Open Supply Hub
United States of America (the)Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.
All Things Urban
BerlinWe are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.
Data in the ATL
Georgia (US state)PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.
Code for Charlottesville
Charlottesville, VACode for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance
New York, NYThe Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.
Google Public Sector
Mountain View, CA, USAGoogle Cloud's public sector division
Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy
Georgia (US state)Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.
Digital Platform Commission Act of 2022
Washington, DCLegislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."
The Centre for Civic Innovation
Sydney NSW, AustraliaWhat would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
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