Civic Tech Field Guide
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Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.
Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.
Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAOTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.
Luminate
36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UKLuminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
The California Public Technology Roundtable
CaliforniaThe California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.
Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
Station for Open Cultures
Hong KongAn inter-galaxial space station that enhances open culture
Global Network Initiative
718 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USAProtecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.
OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.
Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.
I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi
This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.
What we stand for: a just democracy, a fair economy and an environmentally sustainable future.
Elevator
Washington, DCA mentoring app connecting new and former members of Congress
A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.
Décider ensemble
128 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, FranceDécider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
Public Service Lab
BerlinSupporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications
The Cleaners
Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, GermanyIt tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.
Open Gov Hub
Washington, DCOpen Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.
Urban Innovation Fund
San FranciscoA venture capital fund that identifies early-stage innovators solving our toughest urban challenges and provides them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued companies.
Digital Counties
United States of America (the)Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.
GovTech Top 25
United States of America (the)A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.
Are you working on social change issues in Sub-Saharan Africa? Do injustice, corruption and inequalities in your community motivate your work? Do you use data and technology in your daily work?Apply to be The Engine Room's Matchbox partner!(Lire cet article en français)What is Matchbox?M
Centre for Humanitarian Data's Data Fellows
Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal, The Hague, NetherlandsThrough this programme, Fellows design and deliver targeted projects that contribute to the Centre's overall goal of increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector.
Across Green Country, from the Tulsa Zoo to ONEOK Field, education to health, assisting neighborhoods to assisting nonprofits, Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is making a difference in Eastern Oklahoma. TCF is truly this community's foundation: a reflection of Tulsa's overwhelming philanthropic spirit and concern for the lives and well-being of others.
We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.
People's Roadmap for a Digital New York City
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USAIn this citizen created roadmap, we outline how to humanize technology, move beyond transparency for transparency's sake, and ensure we have government technology that works for the people, built with the people.
We work at the city-level to find, fund and support the most promising entrepreneurs; then we build an ecosystem of support around them
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Code for San Francisco
San FranciscoAs part of the Code for America Brigade Network, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.
Code for Fort Collins
Fort Collins, COCode for Fort Collins is a volunteer organization who develops technology-driven solutions to challenges faced by charities, government agencies, and other groups within the city.
MIT GOV/LAB
30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USAThe MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
Code for Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NCBridging the gap between local government and human capital in Chapel Hill
Data 4 Good Conference UK
Birmingham, UKThe conference will connect leaders and practitioners to explore how non-profits are adapting and excelling in an increasingly data-driven world.
Code for Denver
DenverWe build software to help nonprofits and local government better serve their community.
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