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

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.

• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Justice tech

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

The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

London's Techno-Optimist Members Club

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

A prototype project that aims to help understand how AI models and humans differ in their perception of risk.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.

• seniors
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story tech
• Policy

Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Website builder

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

Tech upskilling platform including Máquina de Identificação de Talento (MIT), "para avaliar o potencial de requalificação dos trabalhadores e, assim, agilizar a seleção de candidatos para formação"

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development
• Upskilling

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

• cities
• local

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.

• Courses
• Academia
• Design

Civil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Big listening

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

• Telegram
• WhatsApp

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Digital rights

To...help governments hire more effectively, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) has actively engaged government organizations at the state, county, and city levels to optimize their talent practices and build digital capacity — and we’ve learned some things.

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Tech talent

We estimate that UK central government conducts approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions per year in the provision of around 400 services, of which approximately 143 million are complex repetitive transactions. We estimate that 84% of these complex transactions are highly automatable.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Message provides email, text, and CRM solutions designed for large-scale digital programs run by top practitioners.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

Democratizing artificial intelligence for improving permitting outcomes and efficiency

• Affordable and clean energy

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Permitting

Text platform for grassroots fundraising and organizing

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

Terner Labs scales critical housing innovations at the intersection of equity, affordability, and sustainability.

• housing

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

• Meet the others
• Fight disinformation
• Socialize online

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• In-person meetings

The River Thames Water Quality Testing Group is operated by volunteers who enjoy wild swimming, paddle-boarding and boating, and are concerned about the water quality in the River Thames and the lack of up-to-date information.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Citizen science

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Your personal bullshit🤌 detector for the Internet.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation

EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.

• Civic data
• Mapping tools

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Tells a story based on a series of singular point locations.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping tools

Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.

• Crowdsourcing
• Games and gamification
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Government of Flanders is developing the digital talents of all people of Flanders. It valorises data as a raw material of the economy and society and is working on the digital transformation of public service delivery.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

Tattara is a platform that enables field agents to collect data with a mobile device.

• Surveys & polling

All Tech Is Human’s mission is to grow and diversify the entire Responsible Tech community. The University Network serves that mission by extending opportunities for learning and career growth (and a good time!) to affiliated student clubs at colleges and universities across the globe.

• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you're looking at, or use it as your own personal tour guide in a new city.

• Mapping tools

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

• Crowdsourcing
• Games and gamification
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and implemented by UNESCO, this project supports the Flemish government in implementing reforms by contributing to the improved AI-readiness and increased adoption of AI across the Flemish public administrations in a safe and ethical manner.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Government AI strategies

Healthsites.io establishes this data and the tools necessary to upload, manage and make the data easily accessible.

• Civic maps

GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data.

• Mapping
• Mapping platforms

El programa Cali Cómo Vamos, el laboratorio ciudadano Mi Cali Contrata Bien, la Unidad de Acción Vallecaucana y el observatorio Cali Visible, ponen a disposición una ruta de obtención de datos referidos a indicadores de bienestar y gestión pública de la ciudad.

• cities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Web forms evolved. Deploy and conduct surveys that work without a connection, on any device.

• Surveys & polling