@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Mastodon

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Meet the others
• Graveyard
• Mastodon

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

• Civic data
• Mapping

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Justice tech
• Fellowships

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Mainstream media coverage

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports
• hurricanes

• Social media
• Public media

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani

• celebrities

• Civic literacy
• Shows and films

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A virtual assistant for Filipinos on social welfare.

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Bots

112 job boards, Maintained by Ted Fickes & Edward Saperia

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Conferences

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Digital rights
• Fellowships

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

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

OpenSPP is a scalable, integrated and digital social protection information system.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012

• apps
• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsletters

“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action

The Catalog of Digital Solutions is an interactive online tool providing data and resources for donors, governments, procurers, and implementers to support their digital initiatives.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Using AI to make journalism better. Together.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency
• Working groups

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Social media

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy in the United Kingdom.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

This is a dataset that uses multiple metrics of deprivation to rank all small neighbourhood sized chunks of the UK from most to least deprived.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data

Giving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about.

• racial equity

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Reforesting after wildfires with drones

• sustainability
• forests
• fires

• Drones

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

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

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Nonprofit tech
• Games and gamification

We’re a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.

• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

​​The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.

• CTFG partners

• Ethical tech and responsible tech