Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Awards and prizes

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

We are campaign workers from across the United States who are committed to improving our work conditions, empowering organizers, and promoting healthy career longevity.

• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech unions

UNI Global Union's Top Ten Principles for Workers' Data Rights fills an enormous gap with regards workers' rights in the new world of work.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Online courses

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic and social impact companies

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. [email protected] 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Govtech vendors

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Public meetings
• Forms

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out
• Challenges

City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.

• Consumer watchdogging

Open data on decarbonization

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Open data publishing portals

The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• People Powered

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

BoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC

• templates

• Communicating with the people
• Public meetings

We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.

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

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Plan✕ is a platform for creating and publishing digital planning services. It aims to make planning less hard work, for everyone.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Conferences

In this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.

• US Election 2020

• Media

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers

open data, transparent society

• TICTeC 25

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Liberating Knowledge for Opportunities

• Civic apps outfits
• Open knowledge

Act Hub Africa is a ‌civic-tech‌ ‌NGO‌ ‌that‌ ‌works‌ ‌to‌ promote ‌good governance, democracy, ensure‌ ‌openness‌ ‌and‌ ‌transparency‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌governments‌ ‌by‌ ‌making‌ ‌their‌ ‌fiscal data‌ ‌available‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌simplified,‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌understand‌ ‌form‌ ‌and‌ ‌engage‌ ‌people‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌government‌ ‌areas‌ ‌on‌ ‌how‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌them‌ ‌in‌ ‌engaging‌ ‌their‌ ‌political‌ ‌officeholders

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Archives
• Translation and linguistic representation

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Data schemas and standards

A tagging system for fact-checks

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

The MSCAPP curriculum is a three-legged stool, building foundational knowledge of computer science, statistics, and public policy analysis.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Degree programs

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Supporting civil society organizations in Latin America

• Nonprofit tech

Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.

• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

DDoS protection for civil society groups

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.

• Podcasts

Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) is a multi-institutional initiative using techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Solutions journalism

One app to take back control of your data

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.

• Media
• Conferences

Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.

• Adjacent Fields
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Connecting the journalism-tech network that collaborates on open technologies and processes within journalism

• Media
• Journalism
• Open source

Humanity Innovation Labs is an agile consultancy that offers Mixed Methods Research, UX/UI, and Industrial Design services for emerging technologies within wearable computing (e.g. physical devices and digital experiences).

• Civic and social impact companies
• Design

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing