Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Civic features

Fundacion para la Libertad de Prensa works to defend freedom of the press, the right to information, human dignity and the free work of journalists. They are a multidisciplinary team of professionals who work to investigate the conditions of journalism in Colombia and take actions to promote guarantees for this trade throughout the country.

A Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice

• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Story-based campaigns

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.

• Report cards and audits

The Kenya Open Data is a portal that makes public Government datasets accessible for free to the public in easy reusable formats. This initiative is in support of the Government’s drive to consistently inform and be accountable to its citizens. In addition, the information shared by one Government office is also vital to other government stakeholders in planning and implementation of their programmes.

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Defensive urbanism, also known as hostile, unpleasant, or exclusive architecture is used to guide or restrict behaviour in urban space as a form of crime prevention, protection of property, and order maintenance. ​ From benches and ledges that prevent skateboarding and lying down to surveillance and security technologies that keep a watchful eye on the city, defensive urban design has become an everyday part of our urban fabric. It's an intentional design strategy that targets people who use or rely on public space the most - like people who are homeless and youth - by restricting behaviours they engage in like sleeping in public and skateboarding. It also makes the city more hostile for other vulnerable residents like people who are elderly, people who have a disability, and young children.

• cities
• place-based

• Artistic interventions
• Archives

The Wi-Fi Smart Sprinkler Control system that saves up to 50% on watering bills using your laptop or smartphone to schedule watering times and automatically adjusts watering amounts.

• Adjacent Fields

g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups