Civic Tech Field Guide
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We the Builders (alt USDS)
Washington, DCHere, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Make It Fair campaign
LondonThe UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.
Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.
A social media platform that allows users to create and customize their own personalized feeds, including community feeds, hobby-specific feeds, and more.
Bridging Dictionary
MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide
Datadaptive's Postcodes in Polygon tool allows users to draw an area on a map and retrieve a list of postcodes within that area in Great Britain, using data from the November 2024 release of the ONS Postcode Directory product
GNU Taler is a privacy-friendly online payment system that aims to make transactions fast and easy, while eliminating fraud and protecting user data by design
No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE)
MinneapolisThe NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.
WhatGov
LondonWhatGov makes UK Parliament easy to engage with, with a chat-style interface, debates rewritten in genz slang, and email/mobile push notifications to keep you informed.
OpenAI is funding research at Duke University to develop algorithms that can predict human moral judgments in scenarios involving conflicts among morally relevant features in medicine, law, and business
State of Digital Government Review (UK)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧This review examines the state of digital government in the UK, highlighting successes, challenges, and root causes
DeepFace is a lightweight Python library for face recognition and facial attribute analysis, including age, gender, emotion, and race
Civic Space Support Guide
Washington, DCThe Civic Space Support Guide provides strategies and resources for civil society actors and their allies to remain safe and defend civic space when it comes under attack
Understanding the cyber crime and fraud victim journey
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧This report presents findings from a qualitative study on the experiences of victims of cyber crime and fraud in England and Wales
by Rahul Bhargava
Twin Cities Innovation Alliance
MinneapolisOur mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.
Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024
LawtechUK is a Ministry of Justice-backed initiative dedicated to driving digital transformation in the UK legal sector
Melbourne Urban Forest Visual
Melbourne VIC, AustraliaPeople from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees
Operating as a public safety technology company delivering AI‑ and data‑driven platform solutions for law enforcement and civic leadership
Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI)
United States of America 🇺🇸The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights protection, and rule of law
Policy Lab (GOV.UK)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Uses design, innovation, and people-centered approaches to improve policymaking
End Police Surveillance
ChicagoShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.
Metascience 2025 is a global conference that brings together researchers, advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders to share ideas, evidence, and foster a culture of continuous experimentation and improvement in the research process
Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure
Digital Defense is a comprehensive resource that provides checklists and guides to help individuals secure their digital lives and protect their privacy across various aspects such as authentication, web browsing, email, messaging, social media, and more
AI Collaborative
1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063Advancing AI in the public interest.
A report by the Royal Society on the impact of the internet on our information environment, and on misinformation relating to scientific issues
Humane Intelligence
United States of America 🇺🇸Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.
We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement.
Current AI
Stanford, CAThrough global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.
CrownShy
United States of America 🇺🇸We provide democratic tools and methods for communities of all shapes and sizes.
Red teaming large language models (LLMs) for resilience to scientific disinformation
United States of America 🇺🇸The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).
Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.
Career Dreamer
Mountain View, CACareer Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.
G1000
BrusselsG1000 is a Belgian platform for democratic innovation. We develop, support and promote new forms of deliberation that reinforce democracy from the local to the national level. We believe democracy should give more space to regular citizens.
K-Monitor Database
Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺K-Monitor database is a searchable library of articles from the online media dealing with corruption, procurements, public spending and in general with the transparency of the public sphere.
Zesumme Vereinfachen
Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg) 🇱🇺Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.
Understandable Budget (Közérthető Költségvetés)
Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺The aim of this Municipal Budget Visualisation Tool is to make the management of local governments transparent to the local population and the wider society.
Figyusz
Hungary (Magyarország) 🇭🇺An app where you can subscribe to alerts to be notified immediately of updates to monitored administrative and government databases.
Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.
Emerging Tech Primers
AspenOur team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.
A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government
Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act
Hey Neighbour Collective
Burnaby, CanadaHey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.
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