We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W

• Fellowships
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life. 

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services.

• trainings

• Govtech vendors
• Procurement

The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States working to educate our neighbors about the importance of digital rights. Organized by EFF.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights

Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Smart Cities and sensors

Our accelerator program provides 24 months of customer development, product development, network building, and expert guidance for startups, all in preparation for securing state & local contracts. 

• Govtech
• Accelerators

Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk. By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon, we fight for human rights in the digital age.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Civic features

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

• Challenges
• Public project trackers

Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement

• books

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Books
• Manage volunteers

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media

• books

• Books
• Filter bubble poppers

Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.

• trainings
• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations
• Relational organizing

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Challenges

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Archives

A website platform for progressive campaigns.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Website builder

A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.

• resources
• curricula

• Govtech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Fieldwide resources

Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional,  social, and financial.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.

• history

• Civic maps

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

• Digital rights

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

Urban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Think tanks

Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Robert Redford committed to the growth of independent artists. The institute is driven by its programs that discover and support independent filmmakers, theatre artists and composers from all over the world. - Wikipedia

• Funders & donors

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• United Nations

• Access to information
• Holidays

We want to change the way the internet enables the spread of news and information so it serves the public good over corporate and political interests.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Funders & donors
• Decentralization

Helping voters in English and Spanish

• WhatsApp

• Voting and elections
• Bots
• Voter assistance tech

GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

25 years of aid accountability

• Timelines

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.

• X (Twitter)

• Media and social media analysis
• Filter bubble poppers

Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world

• Climate action

• Civic tech catalogs

AP provides tech companies with election updates via a proprietary API that tech companies can plug into with a subscription to answer voice search queries, among others.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.

• human rights

• Media
• Media monitoring

How local governments can serve people better through effective communications and digital services.

• local

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

Real-time HD maps for autonomous driving

• Mapping tools

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards
• Content provenance

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

This Ford Foundation toolkit includes introductory disability definitions and language guidelines, in addition to guidance on creating accessible in-person and virtual events, social media, and disability inclusive employment practices from recruitment to retention.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

• racial equity

• Conferences
• Peer networks

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight

• census

• Bots