The adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.

• police violence

• Open justice

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

This edition of the South African Constitution has been specially created to be easy to access, read, print and distribute.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Constitutions

This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.

• Learn about civic tech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Reading lists

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.

• toolkits
• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Synthesize qualitative data

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Surveys & polling

With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Adding additional products to users’ shopping carts without their consent.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

• Fight disinformation

Tech hub empowering youth through innovation, entrepreneurship, Civic tech, SDG and Tech4good in Africa

• Hubs
• Incubators

A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio

• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Group decision making

Craft @ Large ...is an Intergenerational, Intercultural Hackerspace in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH

• Hubs
• Digital fabrication

Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.

• Fight disinformation
• Shows and films

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.

• Archives

A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice

• racial equity

• Cameras

A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• People Powered
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Partner networks and coalitions

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

• Games and gamification

Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.

• apps
• free speech

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• city
• racial equity

• Media

The Studio at Cornell Tech is a place for students, faculty and practitioners from across disciplines and industries to come together and bridge the gap between the ideas generated in an academic institution and the products that people use every day.

• Research and policy centers

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and society in general, professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering, science, and technology, and open discussion on the resulting issues.

• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Trade groups

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Conferences

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Benchmarks

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

• labor
• Amazon

• Crowdsourcing

A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work

• guides

• Get funding

The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.

• News and blogs

Code Hopper is a repository to share code across the progressive community. Currently it consists of data wrangling functions, and our goal is to continually expand its scope.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Research tools

Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

• books

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Books

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Fiquem Sabendo é uma organização sem fins lucrativos especializada noacesso a informações públicas

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Access to information

This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Non-profit startup accelerator elevating #ClimateTech innovators & founders to move the needle on the climate crisis. Administered by SecondMuse

• Climate action

• Accelerators

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Public meetings

A participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe

• Partner networks and coalitions

The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C

• No poverty

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Resources for building open organizations The Open Organization is a community-driven project leading a global conversation about the ways open principles change how people work, manage, and lead. Our community members generate knowledge and share strategies for building organizational cultures on principles like transparency, adaptability, collaboration, inclusivity, and community.

• Adjacent Fields

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Books

Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Academia