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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We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.
THING Tank
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027If 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
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.
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
Secure the Future of Mobility
Mapping Healthy Digital Public Spaces
New York City, NY, USAWe are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice
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.
Interventions to End Online Violence Against Women in Politics
455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001This 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.
Beyond Finance
Chicago, ILHelping You Move Beyond Debt
Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012
Internet Freedom Foundation
New DelhiIFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.
Teplitsa Social Technologies
str. 1905, 10A, 3rd Floor, 127006, Moscow, p/58Некоммерческий образовательный проект для гражданских активистов и IT-специалистов
Congressional App Challenge
740 15th St. NW Washington D.C.We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Bits of Freedom
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)Bits of Freedom was founded in 1999. We influence policies and legislation to support an open and fair information society.
The Limits to Digital Consent: Understanding the risks of ethical consent and data collection for underrepresented communities
New York City, NY, USAA 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress
Summarizes tech terms and conditions in a more legible format
Access Lab
PortugalAccess Lab é uma empresa que trabalha o acesso de pessoas com deficiência e S/surdas à cultura e ao entretenimento enquanto direito humano fundamental.
TechImpact Technology Learning Center (formerly NPower)
United States of America (the)Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.
El acceso a los servicios de la información y la comunicación y las personas con discapacidad - Un estudio exploratorio realizado en la región del Cono Sur
GreatFire
China (Zhong Guo)We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China
We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.
Callisto Vault
San FranciscoA suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.
YAI Center for Innovation and Engagement
New York City, NY, USAYAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.
Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning
MassachusettsInteractive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu
Easily translate dynamic websites & apps while eliminating tedious file transfers from your localization workflow.
Transifex is the world's largest localization community for open source projects
This overview highlights resources that are available for TU Delft researchers in their Open Science journey.
Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.
Civics of Technology
TexasThe Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom
Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.
Resources for building open organizations The Open Organization is a community-driven project leading a global conversation about the ways open principles change how people work, manage, and lead. Our community members generate knowledge and share strategies for building organizational cultures on principles like transparency, adaptability, collaboration, inclusivity, and community.
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
सङ्ग्रह (Collection)
NepalThe collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages of Nepal.
This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.
Permission Slip
Yonkers, NY, USAOne app to take back control of your data
AIME
Moffett Field, Clark Road, Mountain View, California, USAOur platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.
#VisibileWikiWomen
Santa Cruz, California, USACentering the knowledges of marginalised communities from around the world. Re-imagining the internet to be for and from us all.
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