Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

• free speech

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

We are Binance Charity, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a future where Web3 technology is used as a force for good.

• Blockchain

AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

Project that sought to "create and establish a national digital identification system using distributed ledger technology (DLT)."

• Graveyard
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

"...Open source hardware gives people the freedom to control their technology while sharing knowledge and encouraging commerce through the open exchange of designs."

• Meet the others
• Hardware
• Citizen science

Successful public-facing technologies rely upon direct resident engagement and community-focused design.

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• United States (federal government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Challenges

A hub of technologists dedicated to building technology for Reproductive Justice

• women's health

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The Statewide News Collective is a community for news organizations serving statewide audiences launched by The Lenfest Institute, RevLab at The Texas Tribune, and Spotlight PA.

• state

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

With a mission to combat online abuses, particularly image-based sexual abuse, while advocating for legislative reform and providing support to victims.

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy

In the context of increasingly complex challenges and unprecedented opportunities offered by technology, the MENA – OECD Working Group II on Open and Innovative Government supports MENA countries through regional exchange and dialogue to build public sectors that innovate, engage citizens, open up their data and information and follow the principles of digital and user-centred policy and service design.

• Govtech
• Working groups

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open data publishing portals

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Petitions

Women at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• In-person meetings
• Organize campaigns

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Service delivery

A Digital Servant's Guide to U.S. Federal Information Technology Law and Policy

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Building inside government

By participating in GSA’s study on identity verification technology, you can help identify potential barriers and challenges that impact individuals from diverse backgrounds.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• User research
• Identity

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Narrative tech

PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Awards and prizes

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.

• racial equity

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

We create Sustainable Social Impact with Technology

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Boonmee Lab is a design, data, and technology company who will bring meaningful innovation with excellence to the society.

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms