Parody protest campaign

• Reduced inequalities
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Design
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• resilience

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Research and policy centers

The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.

• mobility
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

Shaping Education for Fairer AI

• Reduced inequalities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good
• Legal tech

"Given the global significance of the DSA, a coalition of civil society and research organizations is setting up a “Global Majority House” in Brussels to ensure the implementation of the landmark legislation, as well as other digital regulations, is equitable and inclusive." - Tech Policy Press

• Reduced inequalities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Hubs

Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities
• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

• housing
• landlord
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

• Reduced inequalities
• No poverty

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Dashboards

Counting trucks for environmental justice

• air quality
• Reduced inequalities
• city

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Cameras

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. 

• Reduced inequalities
• electricity
• housing

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Co-design

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• city
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities
• People Powered

• Artistic interventions

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Emerging tech
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Courses

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Civic teams at tech companies
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

This is a dataset that uses multiple metrics of deprivation to rank all small neighbourhood sized chunks of the UK from most to least deprived.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity

• Reduced inequalities

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

by Okki Berendschot

• city
• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.

• banking
• Reduced inequalities

• Specific campaigns

Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization