Civic Tech Field Guide
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Rightly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.
Justice Hub
BangaloreAn open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.
Agami
BangaloreAgami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India
Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
CivicDataLab
IndiaWe work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
A space for policymakers, tech companies and web users to shape a safer, more empowering web.
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
Data visualization nominated for 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.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Seekr
Vienna, VANews site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly
A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
Mozilla'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.
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.
We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.
Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.
Niji eco-design site concept
FranceUsers choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint
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.
A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.
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
"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)
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
GermanyA campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
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.
Before The Bulldozers
Anacostia, DCIt’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.
An award for the best games for social impact of the year
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Walking Tour
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USATomiko Brown-Nagin, chair of the Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, introduces you to the Initiative's work and this tour.
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.
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.
Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
Democracy Decoded
Washington, DCPodcast of the Campaign Legal Center
CommunityX
Chicago, ILCreate and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.
The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.
ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
Buoyant Ventures
Illinois, USAWe invest in digital solutions to climate change.
Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.
Red Ciudadana
GuatemalaParticipación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.
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