Projects - The People

Robin Hood Labs Fellowship

150 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

BUILD HIGH-IMPACT PRODUCTS FOR LOW-INCOME AMERICANS

Internet Governance Forum

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

Y Combinator

If you’re working on a startup or non-profit that addresses news, the future of work, or improving democracy, we’d love to see you apply.

SIMLab's framework for monitoring and evaluating inclusive technologies in social change projects

1110 Vermont Ave NW Washington D.C. 20005

It helps people and organizations to use inclusive technologies to build systems and services that are accessible, responsive, and resilient.

Cities of the Future

10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, USA

Each episode explores one idea or innovation that will transform cities.

Fundación Avina

Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Panama City, Panama

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

C.S. Mott Foundation

The Mott Foundation supports projects around the world that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society.

Flowminder

Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.

Bloom Network

Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.

Sustainable cities and communities

National Voter Registration Day

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus attention on the importance of registering to vote and voting in our democracy during a single day of on-the-ground and digital efforts lead by government, nonprofits, and businesses.

US Election 2020

Civic Design Lab

Oakland, California

Civic Design Lab (CDL) is a civic service design and innovation team within Oakland City Hall that grew out of the Resilient Oakland initiative.

Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)

Rincón 477 Of.803 CP.11000 Montevideo Uruguay

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

Liberation Tech

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

Ours to hack and own: the ride of platform cooperativism

Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

books

Code for All Slack

An online forum for community discussion

Mapa da Inovação Política

Brazil (Brasil)

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

Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship workshops with cities

Oxford Internet Institute

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

DemocracyLab

2410 E Interlaken Blvd, Seattle, WA, USA

Accelerating Civic Innovation

NYC Planning Data Jam at 2017 American Planning Conference

New York, NY

Ctrl Alt Right Delete

Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back

Open Data Lab Jakarta

Jakarta

We’re the Web Foundation’s Open Data Labs. We empower people through data.

guides

Data for Climate Action (D4CA)

Hack from Home Hackathon

Taiwan

A clever response to event cancellations due to the coronavirus

Comment les outils numériques renouvellent la démocratie locale

France

Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

UN Global Pulse

Code for Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ, USA

The Phoenix Brigade focuses on civic hacking, municipal innovation, and citizen engagement in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Code for Australia Fellowship

Australia

Pairing talented technologists with government change-makers to tackle complex social issues

Big Ideas for Better Places

podcasts

Health Forward Foundation

2300 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, USA

Sharing Cities Summit

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

books

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

European Hub for Civic Engagement

Berlin

The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.

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, ...

Code for Ibaraki

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

It is a non-profit voluntary organization whose base is Ibaraki Prefecture (we call it a community). Code for Ibaraki's

NNIP Catalog of data trainings

The Urban Institute, L'Enfant Plaza Southwest, Washington, DC, USA

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

trainings

Code for Sacramento

Sacramento, California, USA

We connect civic technologists with project leaders who have ideas for community solutions.

Public Interest Technology Summit

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Public Interest Technology Summit is the evolution of the Alumni Digital Summit hosted last October in collaboration with Alumni Relations.

Rappaport Family Foundation

Rappaport Family Foundation -

Open Cities Lab

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

Digital Civil Society Lab

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

Planetizen Jobswire

Los Angeles, CA

Reach Planetizen's massive audience of planners, designers, architects, developers, academics, and other professionals who are working with the built environment.

urban planning

Frontiers of Democracy

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

Gov Pod

Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.