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Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.
This service helps councils manage all elements of waste services online, from missed bin reports to online payments for collections — and like everything we do, of course it makes things easier for citizens too.
Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.
DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.
The ODK-X community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.
Down for the Cause works to unpack various social issues and highlight the work that is being done by incredible people and organizations. DFTC aims to create a community committed to sustainable social change.
US Federal Chief Data Officer Council
Washington, DCThe Council’s vision is to improve government mission achievement and increase the benefits to the Nation through improvement in the management, use, protection, dissemination, and generation of data in government decision-making and operations.
OpenCovid19 is a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Geo Data Upload is a free and easy-to-use tool for organizations to share their geographic data with Google Maps.
Open Seneca
LisbonDistributing air sensors to volunteer cyclists to map pollution data throughout Lisbon Sensores distribuídos. Cinco dezenas de ciclistas vão andar a medir a poluição atmosférica – Lisboa Para Pessoas
Poland-based design studio that builds civic products
Digital.gov Communities of Practice
United States of America (the)Peer communities of digital US government workers. Collaborate and share resources with others across government. You must have a .gov email address to join.
Recovery Data Partnership
New York, NYA first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.
Hansard 1803–2005
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)200 years of UK Parliamentary speeches. This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries.
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services.
People using Polarizer can rate the mutual polarization level of one-on-one chats. Their opinions and ratings are visualized as a network graph. The graph is clustered by the peoples mutual polarization ratings.
Enter your location and learn about the most popular song in your area, plus those nearby. By The Pudding.
Poznan's Smart City app
Poznań, PolandAfter the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).
The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.
The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services. These apps can help solve problems in a variety of public domains, such as healthcare, crime, disaster management, citizen engagement, transportation, traffic, education, etc.
By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.
We’re a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change.
UnBias
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.
Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
New York, NYshowcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.
We are crowd-sourcing a collection of comics on social good topics created by artists around the world, to encourage public understanding on complex social issues.
This new coloring book is the perfect tool for kids and adults to learn about the political landscape of the United States in a fun and interactive way.
The Politize Embaixadas (Embassies) program trains thousands of Brazilian youth to create influential citizen leaders in cities
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Code for America announce the launch of tools for local communities interested in identifying areas for economic growth using 22 environmental sustainability indicators, including job growth, value-added, air quality, climate impact, energy, water, and land use across 389 industry sectors.
Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements.
ODK lets you build powerful offline forms to collect the data you need wherever it is. Join the leading social impact organizations that use ODK to make the world a better place.
Helping voters in English and Spanish
Hosted by Caterina Fake, Should This Exist? is a show that takes a single technology and asks: What is its greatest potential? And what could possibly go wrong?
Fiquem Sabendo
BrazilFiquem Sabendo é uma agência de dados independente e especializada na Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI). Associação sem fins lucrativos, apartidária e comprometida com a transparência pública no Brasil.
TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers. Last year: 3,640+ graduates report that they learned skills that can help improve their lives 1,150+ children are better able to do schoolwork online because of TGH 2,530+ graduates have used their TGH device and digital skills for their health and wellness Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives.
NYC Civic Service Design
New York, NYCivic Service Design refers to the practice of creating, better understanding, and improving upon programs at any stage; we use “civic service design” to mean applying the tools and methods of service design to government-run or funded programs.
The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity report is the annual flagship publication of the Connected Society programme.
Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion
Oxford, UKOCSI provides high quality research, data and analysis to public and community sector organisations, helping you make better decisions – decisions that contribute to the public good.
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society.
The People's Bus
New York, NYThe People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.
El Tímpano
Oakland, CaliforniaEl Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.
Filter and aggregate data to provinces or districts without code or mapping software
We are intersectional feminists working to build a network of people who are interested in radical change in the tech industry, and connecting with people who would benefit from such change.
Mozilla Rally is aimed at rebuilding your equity in your data. We allow you to choose how to contribute your data and for what purpose.
Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020
Media Monitoring Africa
AfricaA non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
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