A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Fight disinformation

Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Data science for social good

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.

• courses

• Media
• Online courses

We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

Hearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.

• Media
• Socialize online
• Civic forums

The Floodplain Management Platform for Resilient Communities

• floods

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

• Crowdsourcing
• Consumer watchdogging
• Narrative tech

Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.

• Media
• Surveys & polling
• Engagement journalism

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Find a job or hire someone

Hearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.

• Media
• Engagement journalism

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

Ahbap crowdfunding page with over 57,000 donations

• earthquakes

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Loconomics Cooperative was an app for booking local services owned by local service professionals.

• labor
• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Platform coops

Narwhal is a discussion community for curious people of any viewpoint

• Online forums
• Civic forums
• Social networks

Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara

• earthquakes

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

See both sides of important issues— in 5 minutes a day.

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia

• Media

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures

• Build something

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A project map of Public Interest AI and related research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Public Interest Tech

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic maps

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers
• Organize campaigns

The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

Prototype - Enter a URL to detect fake news websites at scale.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

All Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existing analysis in many common formats.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data science for social good

Informed Giving = More Effective Relief

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Economic development
• Upskilling

An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Secure the Future of Mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way

• Climate action

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms
• Solutions journalism

A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice

• courses

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Online courses

Software and solutions for community resilience.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Open source identity solution. "Our vision is that every person on the planet is recognised, protected and provided for from birth"

• Govtech
• Identity

Our Slack workspace helps individuals in the Responsible Tech ecosystem connect with one another, discuss research, share events, learn about careers and job opportunities, and more. In addition, we have channels for specific locations to allow for people to collaborate based on vicinity.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.

• Govtech
• Emergency services
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Realtime data. Unified Public Safety workflow. Reduced emergency response times.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Emergency services

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences