Projects - The People

Smart Cities Dive

Smart Cities Dive provides the latest news and trends on sustainable, connected and livable cities.

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

Code for PDX

Portland, OR

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

Governing.Digital

Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.

Humanity In Action

It is to analyze what is wrong with democracy and spark conversations about how to fix it.

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Electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA)

Hey Google, tell me something good

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

Code for Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

Technology and Social Change Research Project

124 Mount Auburn Street, 2nd Floor, South Elevators Cambridge, MA 02138

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

NYC Planning Labs

120 Broadway, New York, NY, USA

NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

Public Interest Tech at the Royal Society of Arts Conference

Moscone Center, Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

Gravyty Go

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

TechFugees

refugees

Open Government Partnership Global Summit

Code for Jersey City

Jersey City, NJ

Code for Jersey City is a nonpartisan, civic-tech, volunteer community group that collaborates with local government and community partners. We build new tools that help with local civic issues, advocate for better technology and open government, and provide a space for residents to voice and act on their ideas so that our city can grow for, and by the people.

Open Savannah

2222 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, USA

As a Code for America Brigade, we're part of a national network of civic-minded volunteers who contribute their skills toward using the web as a platform for local government and community service.

Blue Utopia

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Software and data to help you fundraise, communicate, organize and optimize your campaign.

The Kresge Foundation

Expanding opportunities in America’s cities

MindLab's design methods

MindLab, Slotsholmsgade 12, 1216 Copenhagen Municipality, København K, Denmark

Europe's best framework for developing and operating a business

Poligonal

Engeldamm 28, 10179 Berlin, Germany

customisation of our city walks, workshops, and seminars to your thematic requirements and individual interests.

Hack Michiana

South Bend, IN

Hack Michiana is a Code for America brigade and an opportunity for individuals to be engaged citizens and take an active role in our community.

eCityGovAlliance

The eCityGov Alliance offers easily accessible online government services. Our regional solutions provide one-stop convenience and deliver services from the customer perspective.

Charles F. Kettering Foundation

Feeding America and Map the Meal Gap

Civic Hacker Summit

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

How do you like it so far?

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

How Do You Like It So Far uses pop culture to take soundings of a society in transition, exploring intersections with civic imagination and engagement, and social and political change. Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay are your guides on this adventure.

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CivicTech.Chat

A podcast on breakthroughs in public service technology.

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Ragtag

Tech volunteers and activists.

DataKind Labs Vision Zero Project

Mapa da Inovação Política

Brazil

The largest and most extensive mapping of emerging political practices in Latin America.

Data Haven

New Haven, CT

At DataHaven, our mission is to improve quality of life by collecting, interpreting and sharing public data for effective decision-making

RNW Media

RNW Media, Witte Kruislaan, Hilversum, Netherlands

RNW Media supports local media and impact organizations to master persuasive storytelling techniques and creative formats to create strong narratives on the world’s most pressing issues.

Open Definition

Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE

Big Ideas for Better Places

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Internet Universality Indicators (ROAM-X)

UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

human rights

Digital Transparency in the Public Realm

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

CivLab

Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, USA

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

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.

Health Forward Foundation

2300 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, USA

International School for Transparency

Vilnius, Lithuania

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

trainings

Public Interest Tech Jobs Board

San Francisco

Work on Things that Matter

F4c-response listserv

This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid19 virus plays out.

Knight Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, USA

Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.