Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.

• Quality education
• surveillance
• CTFG partners

• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights
• Campaign organizations

Community-led AI Audits: Making AI Systems Fair & Accountable

• CTFG partners

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

Data 4 Public Good is a collective space where we share insights, learnings, and have conversations on topics including; Digital justice, Afrofuturism, Data and data privacy, AI and much more. We aim to tap into the collective power of community-based changemaking through technology, democracy, and justice.

• CTFG partners

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• CTFG partners

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.

• CTFG partners

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Academic programs

Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.

• CTFG partners

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs

• CTFG partners

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• People Powered
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

• Newspeak
• CTFG partners

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• CTFG partners

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic apps outfits

The home for civic tech in New York City

• CTFG partners

• Hubs

An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.

• CTFG partners

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online