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The Chinese Internet’s Hidden Victims: Uncovering and Healing the Scars of Online Abuse
Washington, DCA special feature on cyberbullying by 歪脑 WHYNOT, nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health.
A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison
Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.
Meals on Wheels Charlottesville/Albermarle
Charlottesville, VAThis [2023 Webby Award nominated] app allows current Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area to easily see their assigned routes, view customer stops, and navigate to each customer on the route.
We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.
We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.
Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award
Before The Bulldozers
Anacostia, DCIt’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
Beyond Binary Code Builder
New Zealand 🇳🇿Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
Niji eco-design site concept
France 🇫🇷Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy
San FranciscoOur new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.
CommunityX
ChicagoCreate and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.
DataMéxico
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoDataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.
HetzJaeger
Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
Seekr
Vienna, VANews site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly
Decriminalize Poverty
TennesseeThis narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.
Democracy Decoded
Washington, DCPodcast of the Campaign Legal Center
Common Voice
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CAMozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.
An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects
Buoyant Ventures
IllinoisWe invest in digital solutions to climate change.
Red Ciudadana
Guatemala 🇬🇹Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.
The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.
ElecciónMP
Guatemala 🇬🇹Conoce todo sobre el proceso de elección del Fiscal General del Ministerio Público de Guatemala
Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.
Sherpa Government Solutions
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199Public Sector Budgeting Software
eCivis
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.
DemandStar
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199Governments Post Bids, Businesses Get Notified, eBidding Makes It Easy
EUNA Solutions
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199GTY brings leading government technology companies together to empower the government workforce with digital tools to transform the citizen and stakeholder experience.
EUNA Procurement
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199Bonfire provides software that helps procurement teams and stakeholders come together to make smarter buying decisions, easily and with certainty.
A transportation operating system for orchestrating, governing, and powering modern mobility.
OpenBook
800 Boylston Street, 16th Floor Boston, MA 02199Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.
Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEFree online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.
JournalismAI Fellowship Programme
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEThe JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.
Airtable of JournalismAI Case Studies
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEIn the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism
GSA Workplace Innovation Lab
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DCLocated on the second floor of our headquarters at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., the Workplace Innovation Lab showcases the latest innovations in office design, furniture, and technology to meet the needs of today’s hybrid federal workers.
JournalismAI
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEJournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.
Polis (London School of Economics)
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AELondon School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.
This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.
Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.
In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.
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