This is a place to connect, share and discuss all things related to climate change & machine learning 🌏🔥 🤖💻

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Rule of Law monitoring platform - Govwatch is a collective map of the state of the rule of law in Greece, made up of reports not just from the Govwatch team, but also from civil society organisations, journalists and academics, and citizens.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• courses

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

• Reduced inequalities
• No poverty

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Dashboards

Κάθε πολίτης έχει το δικαίωμα να αποκτήσει πληροφορίες από δημόσιους οργανισμούς. Σύμφωνα με τον νόμο, οφείλουν να απαντήσουν.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

A global accelerator for AI innovators and nonprofits working to solve the world’s pressing challenges.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being
• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Midwest Newsroom is a partnership among Iowa Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.

• Media
• Journalism
• Newsroom partnership networks

Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Amplifying voices of migrants and refugees in European Media

• migration

• Media
• Story-based campaigns
• Translation and linguistic representation

The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.

• United Nations
• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Dashboards

Jarbas, a public panel of [Brasilian] parliamentary reimbursements, where suspicious purchases are easily accessible for public scrutiny.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Cada pessoa embaixadora de inovação cívica atua na organização de eventos locais, bate-papos, documentação de processos e, claro, na integração com os demais participantes da rede.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

We empower communities to actively engage with their governments in decision-making through technology, design, communication, and research, driving better public services and enhancing citizen participation in governance.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Vote map and data dashboard showing support for elected representatives in Cali, Colombia

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Government transparency

Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.

• local
• 2024 elections
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

an independent charity dedicated to using, producing and communicating the best available evidence to improve policing

• Open justice

Open source transaction monitoring software

• fintech

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Moot court competitions about intellectual property in Venezuela

• students

• Legal tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

This map shows municipal networks across the United States.

• Civic maps
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

InOut.bot uses the official WhatsApp API from Meta to send and receive your messages to/from the most popular platforms. Works with IFTTT.

• WhatsApp
• commercial

• Group communication tools

The Bank launched GovTech Working Groups to provide thought leadership, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and support the development of sound GovTech solutions. Community building and impact-driven collaboration are the core objectives of this initiative.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Working groups

Research and Technology Lab

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Make your campaign wiser with data & AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.

• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech
• Communicating with the people

AI tool to train volunteers to knock doors for Labour in political campaigns

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Bots
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of GovTech maturity in four focus areas — supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers— and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

A tool to help you run local campaigns with local data.

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Data activism

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Mapping

GovTech Glossary contains definitions of key terms, concepts, and acronyms commonly found in the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) online survey.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

The World Bank's program to "support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice."

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Foundation initiatives

In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs
• Policy

東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

This publication aims to provide practical, actionable insights and a deep understanding of CivicTech applications to support World Bank Group projects and government initiatives, enhancing transparency, enabling public feedback, and fostering collaboration.

• Learn about civic tech

Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Evidence-driven campaigning

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

• fires

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Digital twins (of places)

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

• air quality

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Environmental data

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

• fires

• Hardware
• Emerging Tech Report Projects
• Satellites

An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Through a comprehensive analysis of various ICT projects, this study examines the success and challenges of using technology to protect and restore land rights.

• land
• indigenous

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Access social benefits

Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."

• recidivism
• reports
• criminal justice

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open justice
• AI Auditing

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

• books

• Govtech
• Books
• Public Private Partnerships

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI