Civic Tech Field Guide
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People will not (and should not) use tech that's untrustworthy. Too many tech projects, including civic tech projects, have abused user privacy and/or failed users in providing a secure user experience. Anyone advocating for increasing digitization of government, social benefits, or public conversation should invest in strong digital security and privacy-respecting approach from the onset and on an ongoing basis, as this area evolves rapidly.
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Israel Tech Policy Institute
Tel Aviv, IsraelTech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.
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.
Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.
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.
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.
Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.
RosKomSvoboda
Russian Federation (the)RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.
We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights
Own Your Data Foundation
WyomingWe equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
Secure the Future of Mobility
An iconography and lexicon for communicating which technologies are in use in public places
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.
Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges
Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images
NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday
Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012
Center for Digital Democracy
Washington, DCThe Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.
IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.
From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Cybersecurity Handbook for Civil Society Organizations
Washington, DCA guide for civil society organizations looking to get started on a cybersecurity plan
People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.
privacy filters for shared location links
Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence
Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save keeps you in control of your mobile media at all times.
Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.
Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.
Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?
Filterwatch
Brooklyn, NYFilterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.
We set ourselves a task to create a short, simple, and practical resource to help teams who are designing projects to identify potential risks and harms.
Bits of Freedom
Netherlands (the)Bits of Freedom was founded in 1999. We influence policies and legislation to support an open and fair information society.
A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress
Smart cities and data protection: possible routes
Brazil (Brasil)InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.
JusticeAI
Palo AltoJusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.
Summarizes tech terms and conditions in a more legible format
SocialTIC
South AmericaSocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital
The Empower Rangers
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)The Empower Rangers es una creación animada pensada y ejecutada por RedesAyuda y el primero, de un grupo de ellos, es el Empower Ranger Azul.
We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.
MetaCert tells you which links are safe and which websites you can trust.
What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.
The Rights in the Network Coalition is a network of entities that brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations in defense of digital rights, with the main themes of action: access, freedom of expression, protection of personal data and privacy on the Internet.
Al Sur
South America"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.
Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
New York University, New York, NY, USAS.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
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