Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding.  Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

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• Pro bono and volunteer

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Artificial Intelligence
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• Generative AI

We partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Civic and social impact companies

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
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• Reports

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.

• Adjacent Fields
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• Digital security and privacy

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

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• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
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• Procurement

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
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Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Incubators

PolicyLab Africa uses Human centered design to imagine sustainable futures.

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Social impact design firms

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
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A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures

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A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges

• Amazon

• Get funding
• Build something

Ex Nihila is a community of founders, designers, and technologists that build and launch new ventures.

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Building in the private sector

The Demography Project is an independent youth-led civic technology and data journalism non profit registered in Kenya.

• youth
• Clean water and sanitation

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• Civic apps outfits

Swedish social impact startup accelerator

• Get funding
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• Accelerators

A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.

• resources

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• Design
• Visual Design

UserTesting is pleased to offer free and discounted customer experience research services to qualifying charitable organizations through the OneWorld program.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• User research

Building the next generation of collaborative systems, owned entirely in the public interest

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• Civic apps outfits

We are a global network of like-minded innovation programmes across GovTech, Civic Tech and Academia. With teams across 17 countries, we help our members deliver better outcomes for their citizens and innovation ecosystems.

• Climate action

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• Accelerators

Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Better government software. Services that work, for people.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
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• Accelerators

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Provincial powerhouse: Alberta’s new government lab

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
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• Playbooks and design principles

We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.

• guides

• The People
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• Playbooks and design principles

Helping communities create and implement their open data, data governance, and open smart city initiatives

• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups
• Civic apps outfits

Community Initiatives is a dedicated fiscal sponsor whose sole purpose is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for nonprofit leaders.

• Civic data
• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

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Europe's best framework for developing and operating a business

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

AI Confessions

• The People
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• Innovation teams and labs

The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative is a project of Living Cities, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, and Code for America that brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and local data intermediaries across seven communities.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

Liba Rubenstein, Director of Social Impact and Policy at Tumblr, explores how Tumblr's versatile platform can help nonprofits, libraries, and other changemakers tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement, and drive measurable impact.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

offers incubation, capacity building and financing options to new, small and medium business ventures and Kenyan entrepreneurs that are developing innovations to address the challenges of climate change.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

We are a Tech & Innovation Hub located in Tunis and operating all over the world. Our aim is to create, and co-found ventures in E-Health, Gaming, Blockchain & Digital Transformation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

NYC Trees Count Data Jam

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Gov tech accelerator

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech