Projects - Courses

Cyberharassment Clinic at New York Law School

New York, USA

The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.

Justice and Equity in Technology Policy course

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

Equitech Scholars

Chicago, IL

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

Equitech Futures' Civic Tech Institute

Chicago, IL

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

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Justice Media co-Lab

Boston, MA

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

Advocacy Assembly

Advocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.

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Media Matters for Democracy Courses

Pakistan

Two courses - Understanding Citizen Journalism and Digital Disinformation and Journalistic Responsibilities

The School of Good Services

London

The skills you need to deliver services that work

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ITS Rio Curricula on Information Issues

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tech, Media & Democracy course

New York, NY

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)

MIT Media Lab

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

AI Ethics: Global Perspectives

GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives

Centering Human Rights: A Curriculum

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

human rights

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Solving Public Problems (the course)

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

Academia de Innovación Política

Paris, France

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.

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Climate Change AI Summer School 2022

The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.

Climate action

Seminar of digital democracy

Leuven, Belgium

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

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How Cities Can Use Participatory Budgeting to Address Climate Change

People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs

Climate action

Public Data University

Ryerson University Digital Government and Civic Tech

Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.

Justice Innovation Startup Lab

University of Southern California LA

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

GovLab Academy

TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURS

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Citizen interaction design

Michigan, USA

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

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Technology and Social Change 2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.

International School for Transparency

Vilnius, Lithuania

INTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International

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Civic Innovation and Building a People-Centered Government

A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.

iCivics

1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

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Securing Digital Democracy

Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...

MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

NYC Momentum organizer training

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

Tech for Social Justice's list of educational programs

Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (ViDA)

Emily's List Training Center

TechCongress Congressional Innovation Fellowship

Washington, DC

Building 21st Century Government with Technology Talent

Senseable Cities

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science

The Civic Data Design Lab

MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

Civic Leadership Academy at U Chicago

Calling Bullshit course

Each of our lectures will explore one specific facet of bullshit. For each week, a set of required readings are assigned. For some weeks, supplementary readings are also provided for those who wish to delve deeper.

Solving Problems Using Technology

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

Columbia Journalism School Data program

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

Acumen Academy (formerly Plus Acumen)

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.