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Masakhane
AfricaA grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans
Wilder Journal
Barcelona, SpainHere you will find in-depth articles (deep dives), interviews and other content related to our lines of activity (Future Culture, Democratic Innovation, Citizen Empowerment, Social Economy and cooperativism).
Metagov Slack
United States of America (the)Metagov is host to a community of research and practice.
MITRE ATLAS™
United States of America (the)ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) is a globally accessible, living knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques against Al-enabled systems based on real-world attack observations and realistic demonstrations from Al red teams and security groups.
Indigenous AI
GlobalThe Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.
PLURALL
Paris, FrancePLURALL is a boutique consultancy firm transforming complex policy challenges into opportunities for sustainable, community-driven digital infrastructures.
Private Alert System
San FranciscoAlert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.
TV Kitchen
PennsylvaniaTV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAAnalyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies
The People Lab
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAProducing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma
United States of America (the)Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos
Civic Service Design Graduate Minor at The New School
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAThe Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.
No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship
Digital Good Index
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.
Fritz Family Fellowship at Georgetown University Tech & Society
Georgetown University, Washington, DCBuilding on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.
Public & Collab Services Course
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAA core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin
DigiAdGood
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.
Alt 18F
United States of America (the)We’re dedicated to the American public. And we’re not done yet.
USAID Resource Hub
United States of America (the)A centralized resource hub/database designed to support nonprofit and development professionals, organizations, and advocates navigating the impacts of the USAID shutdown—and beyond.
Red-Teaming in the Public Interest
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA[A] vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to consider the full range of ways the public can be involved in evaluating genAI harms
Charities Affected by Freeze in Foreign Assistance Funding
United States of America (the)Charity Navigator's list of 3- and 4-star organizations whose programs may be affected by the Trump Administration's funding freeze.
Identifying Terminated USAID Programs
United States of America (the)This form is to help quickly identify what activities were terminated in the February 25 Armageddon at USAID.
LIA
LisbonO assistente de pesquisa inteligente do Diário da República - AI interaction features with Portugal's national legislative gazette
The Outrage
Washington, DCThe Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world we live in.
USAID Stop-Work
Cincinnati, OhioTracking. Informing.
Civic Tech Strong
United States of America (the)We are American Civictech public workers. United in advocating our values, showcasing our impact and exercising our rights. Coming soon.
Department of People who Work for a Living
Washington, DCWe’ll be ensuring the federal government works for working people and isn’t destroyed by billionaires like Elon Musk. We’ll report on the facts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts and what you can do to fight back.
Journal of Democracy
Baltimore, MDFocusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements around the world.
The 2022 Ranking Digital Rights Telco Giants Scorecard
740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005Ranking Digital Rights's inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers.
These are the results of a survey measuring the impact on organizations across the world affected by the US Government aid freeze.
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
United States of America (the)Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker
Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants (DRAI)
San FranciscoCode for America effort. DRAI distributed emergency cash assistance to immigrants who were undocumented and had lost income or suffered health impacts from COVID-19.
The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
The Situate AI Guidebook: Co-Designing a Toolkit to Support Multi-Stakeholder Early-stage Deliberations Around Public Sector AI Proposals
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBy Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein
AI and Democracy Movements Project
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.
Negative Vote and Balanced Ballot
CaliforniaGiving voters the option to vote NO in all elections can improve all democracies
Humankind
Rotterdam, The NetherlandsAgency For Urban Change
Federal Environmental Web Tracker
United States of America (the)EDGI’s website monitoring team is monitoring thousands of federal government webpages to track changes under the Trump administration.
whatsmeow
Finland (Suomi)whatsmeow is a Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice API.
Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.
No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE)
MinneapolisThe NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.
WhatGov is a platform that allows users to engage with their local government and representatives, providing a space for debates, discussions, and accessing information about their elected officials and parliamentary activities
Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024
Bonfire is an open-source toolkit for building and running federated digital spaces, designed to enable communities to take control over their features, data, and digital environment
The 2025 Public Sector Frameworks Report provides a comprehensive overview of how framework agreements are being used across the UK public sector, covering central government, local government, NHS, and education
This report presents findings from a qualitative study on the experiences of victims of cyber crime and fraud in England and Wales
The Open Data Champions initiative celebrates inspiring leaders across the globe who are championing open data practices in the land sector, particularly in the Global South
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