Civic Tech Field Guide
Sharing knowledge and productively growing the fieldAdjacent Fields - (1947)
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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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.
Clean Insights gives developers a way to plug into a secure, private measurement platform.
A series of projects to figure out how major platforms track users, including through data donations
We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society
We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.
Connect Humanity published the State of Digital Inequity Report in partnership with TechSoup. 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.
Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.
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.
At Eticas we build the seatbelts of AI. We design, pilot and standardize the systems that make sure AI works
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
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.
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.
A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders
We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.
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.
Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.
Own Your Data Foundation
WyomingWe equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.
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.
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.
Loconomics
San FranciscoLoconomics Cooperative was an app for booking local services owned by local service professionals.
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?
A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice
Secure the Future of Mobility
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.
Informed Giving = More Effective Relief
All Tech Is Human
New York City, NY, USAAll Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
Calyx Institute
Brooklyn, NYOur mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.
Democracy Classroom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.
This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.
Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.
Beyond Finance
Chicago, ILHelping You Move Beyond Debt
NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday
Internet Freedom Foundation
New DelhiIFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.
The SaveTheInternet campaign is a volunteer led effort to uphold a fair and open Internet. Over 1 million Indian citizens have participated at one point or another in the campaign that was started by a group of like minded individuals across India in May 2015.
Save Our Privacy
New Delhi#SaveOurPrivacy is an online collective launched in May, 2018 to safeguard your privacy and ensure a citizen centric data protection law.
Fundar - Centro de Analisis e Investigacion
Cda. Alberto Zamora #21 Col. Villa Coyoacan Del. Coyoacan Mexico DF 04000
NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.
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