Civic Tech Field Guide
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Although not always explicitly civic tech, these categories are directly adjacent, like tech for other shared, public challenges, or foundational layers that must be present for civic tech to succeed in its goals.
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California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
California"The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). As the first dedicated privacy regulator in the United States, the agency implements and enforces the CPRA and the California Consumer Privacy Act." - Wikipedia
Center for Democracy and Technology
Washington, DCThe Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.
Microsoft AccountGuard
Redmond, WAMicrosoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.
Monitor Macroscopic Internet Outages in Near Real-Time
Digital Rights Nepal
NepalDigital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal. It focuses on digital rights issues such as right to online freedom of expression and association, online privacy, access to information, internet governance, cyber laws/policies and cyber securities.
The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.
Роскомсвобода
Russian Federation (the)RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.
The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.
Panoptykon Foundation
Warsaw, PolandThe Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change the world around us and make sure that surveillance is curtailed.
Deceptive Patterns
London, UKA taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
The Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
CopenhagenA commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.
The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.
Accessibility Lab (a11y Lab)
MexicoWe are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.
Por un Entorno Digital Accesible (PUEDA)
ArgentinaLa iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.
Journal für politische Bildung
Frankfurt am MainPolitische Bildung zu diskutieren und zu stärken sind die Ziele der zentralen Fachzeitschrift Journal für politische Bildung.
Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.
A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.
AI Forensics
ItalyAI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.
We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society
The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.
EngageMedia Digital Rights program
ThailandWe defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.
At Eticas we build the seatbelts of AI. We design, pilot and standardize the systems that make sure AI works
The Future of Privacy Forum
Washington, DCFPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.
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.
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
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.
Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them
Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.
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.
We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.
A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
CardiffAim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.
UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.
Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.
Own Your Data Foundation
WyomingWe equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials. This will include pursuing data model recommendations that will demonstrate alignment with the VC model, usage guidelines, and best practices.
We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.
If you are new to low-cost and open hardware and open science, start your exploration with the introduction to low-cost and open source tools toolkit!
Algorithmic Transparency Institute
Washington, DCThe Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.
Responsible Computing Challenge
Mountain View, CA, USAThe Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.
Platform://Democracy
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyThe project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values. It focuses on the following question: Can "platform councils" or other institutions ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account in the rule-making processes of platforms?
Informed Giving = More Effective Relief
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existing analysis in many common formats.
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