Fighting to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election

• Distributed campaigns

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

Taught by David Eaves

• Govtech
• Courses

Themis makes it easy to surface, capture, 
and share your organization’s knowledge. Our tools activate and enable every employee.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

We are a specialist group of journalists, technologists, digital storytellers and development practitioners. We work together to tackle voicelessness, surfacing stories from unheard groups worldwide.

• Media

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Have you or someone you know been subjected to an unfair stop or search? Enter the stop information to view all data associated with that particular officer.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic data
• Justice tech

An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.

• Participatory aid

A Google Sheet comparing popular meeting livestreaming solutions with government meetings in mind

• Meeting tech

Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.

• Govtech vendors

Welcome to the World of Twisted ToysTM, a wonderland of excitement, experiences and exploitation. We pride ourselves on making toys that are addictive, risky and put you completely under our control.

• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.

• Surveys & polling
• Communicating with the people

After playing thousands of hours of transportation simulation games, we were left wondering what could happen if some of the traditional limits of the genre didn't exist: in map sizes, track layout complexity, or train scheduling.

• mass transit

• Games and gamification

Report for the World matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

This program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.

• Report cards and audits

netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which follows a novel transdisciplinary methodology on treating network infrastructure as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, self-determination, and social integration.

• research

• Connectivity
• Community wifi
• Decentralization

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

• Design
• Social impact design firms

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data. The sensor attaches to the roof of vehicles and collects detailed data at a more geographic level than traditional fixed-position sensors. The City Scanner sensors capture data related to environmental conditions including air quality (particulate matter 1, 2.5, and 10), temperature, humidity, and road conditions in New York City. The solar-powered sensors are removable and do not permanently alter vehicles.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• Interactive Voice Response
• Justice tech

Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research.

• workshops

• Social media

The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that strives for a more effective government for the American people.

• Tech talent

"News With Friends is a social news app showing the most important stories right now, comparing views from a selection of quality news publishers representing a range of political perspectives."

• apps

• Media
• Social networks

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• Holidays

The B Team is a global nonprofit initiative co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz. It advocates for business practices that are more centered on humanity and the climate.

• Climate action

• Funders & donors

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has developed the NYC Internet of Things Strategy in order to support a healthy cross-sector IoT ecosystem in New York City – one that is productive, responsible, and fair.

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure. IAT© is based on the "15-minute city" idea, which says that all important facilities and services for urban dwellers should be easily accessible within a 15-minute timeframe. We assess infrastructure accessibility by surveying the facilities reachable within 15 minutes on foot, by car and by public transport.

• cities

• Civic data
• Indicators

Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Civic tech catalogs

A centralized platform for traffic volume and collision data by Code for Canada

• mass transit
• mobility

• Data visualization

We empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators
• Social impact design firms

Don’t let your opposition take you by surprise. View broadcast data from all 210 media markets and monitor creative messaging and trends in real time. by Advertising Analytics

• Organize campaigns
• Advertising

Connecting NGOs with Tech. A voluntary movement of tech companies to help non-governmental organizations around the world implement digital solutions to scale up their activities.

• Nonprofit tech
• Resource matching and sharing

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms across the country to report on under-covered issues.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

LobbyControl ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der über Machtstrukturen und Einflussstrategien in Deutschland und der EU aufklärt.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Lobbying

Concise summaries of a range of tech + society considerations

• News and blogs

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

• soil
• Climate action

• Civic maps

your platform for political dialogue

• Filter bubble poppers

The Brick House Cooperative is a publishing platform designed, owned and operated by journalists—ad-free, expandable and subscription-based.

• Media
• Platform coops

The Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for practitioners at the intersection of responsible technology development to explore multidisciplinary approaches to maximizing the societal benefits of emerging technologies while minimizing the harms.    

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships

Diversify Tech connects underrepresented people in tech to jobs scholarships, events, speaking opportunities and more.

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Newsletters

Archive of New York City directories

• cities
• libraries

• Civic data
• Predecessors

The IT University of Copenhagen and the Danish Agency of Digitisation have established a Research Centre for Government IT. The purpose of the centre is to contribute to research-based knowledge and competence development regarding government IT projects, including operation and maintenance of IT systems.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers

Track developments in rhino poaching court cases across South Africa

• animals

• Civic maps

Lets people draw their own representative districts as well as advocate to their state's redistricting process

• gerrymandering

• Mapping tools

Pol Comm Tech is an academic research group at the University of Ottawa focused on exploring the intersections of politics, communication, and technology.

• Research and policy centers

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

New York City is launching the second cohort of its NYC[x] Innovation Fellows program to expand on this successful collaboration, embedding small teams of technologists with City agencies to rapidly solve specific challenges through the use of best practices in digital service delivery.

• cities

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Fellowships

Visualizing climate change

• Climate action

• Artistic interventions