A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

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• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

A game where players help researchers map the human brain

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Open science

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

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

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Procurement

El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas) que promuevan un cambio positivo en la sociedad.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

Welcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

OpenGrants delivers a best-in-class database of grant funding and a marketplace of grant writers, consultants and technical assistance providers. Integrate the power of OpenGrants into your product using our API.

• APIs

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Find a job or hire someone

US Federal government grants portal and related resources

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Fundraising tools

Join us weekly for government technology news, trends and interviews. Tune in live each Friday at 12:00 PM PT.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Introductory blog posts written by Grants.gov

• Get funding

This library of final reports from grant funded projects in the deep tech and research space is a great place to find relevant information without having to write it all yourself!

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

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• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

LocalGov Drupal is a publicly owned asset that delivers a better digital experience for citizens, improves service outcomes, and saves money.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• State and regional government technology

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

Find your next full-time job or short-term opportunity at a nonprofit or other organization using technology for social change.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

An aggregated list of social sector job opportunities and original postings covering unique opportunities in the NGO / Government and CSR space

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We connect volunteer programmers with charities for specific, goal-oriented projects.

• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Not-For-Profit & Community Jobs around Australia

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• Job boards

As a job board that champions business ethics you can be sure that our clients will use your technical skills for good.

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• Job boards

In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Find the best jobs in sustainability, social impact and more

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• Job boards

We aggregate the best evidence, analysis and expert opinions to help you make informed career decisions that maximize your impact

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• Effective altruism

Facebook Group with over 6,000 members

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• Job boards

Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.

• Media
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Join an expert-led community of 500k purpose-driven escapees and progressive employers. Events, courses and resources to help you find your next exciting opportunity.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Join us to build a better Singapore

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• Job boards

We curate the best technology roles in impact-led organisations across Europe.

• Graveyard
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Newspeak House

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Connectivity

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• Digital standards

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

Salesforce.org's own volunteer management app for the platform.

• extensions
• Salesforce

• Manage volunteers

Salesforce.org provides powerful CRM technology for a global community of nonprofits and educational institutions to help them operate effectively, raise funds, and build more meaningful relationships with those they serve.

• CRM
• Civic teams at tech companies

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

A guide to comparing data

• guides

• Civic data
• Data visualization