A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.

• guides
• women
• LGBTQI

• Media
• Solidarity networks

Part of the Data Detox Kit

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Digital literacy

A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible. The reward for donating is spammy emails and phone calls. Few unbiased sources of information exist. We’re fixing that; check out the donor guide and other resources.

• guides

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.

• guides

• Procurement

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Meeting tech

Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.

• guides

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work. Hopefully, projects and contributors will find this helpful in figuring out the best options for them.

• guides

• Get funding

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy

This list of resources is curated and maintained by MERL Tech and The Engine Room.

• guides

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Reading lists

A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe

• guides

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.

• guides
• racial equity
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Civic data

The purpose of this guide is to standardise accessibility features and ensure accessibility compliance across Code for Africa’s projects. Please feel free to copy and adapt it for your organisation.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.

• guides

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

A guide to digital accessibility created by US Digital Services

• guides

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.

• guides
• urban planning

Best ways to communicate your data.

• guides

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging

An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.

• guides

• Data visualization

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital literacy

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

A toolkit of social movement resources by and for global changemakers

• guides
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Here we discuss two pillars of a Citizens’ Assembly website: its design and editorial principles; and the information that should be included.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

• books
• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• guides

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something

EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.

• guides

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).

• guides

• Participatory budgeting
• SMS tools

When you open government, what do you get in return? If you are asking this question, this guide is for you.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.

• guides
• trainings
• women's health

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

The South Australian open data toolkit, contains resources to help agencies release open data. The resources can be tailored to suit your requirements.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals