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Disability Futures Fellows at Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation Building, East 43rd Street, New York, NY, USACreated by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W
Themis
EuropeThemis makes it easy to surface, capture, and share your organization’s knowledge. Our tools activate and enable every employee.
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.
Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community).
NYC Civic Service Design
New York CityCivic Service Design refers to the practice of creating, better understanding, and improving upon programs at any stage; we use “civic service design” to mean applying the tools and methods of service design to government-run or funded programs.
CourtListener
Oakland, CaliforniaSearch millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3
Leerstandsmelder
Germany (Deutschland)Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt
Play or Get Played – the app antidote to deceptive political ads, from HonestAds.org.
Lets people draw their own representative districts as well as advocate to their state's redistricting process
How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems
We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
Many of the perpetrators of the US Capitol attacks on January 6th uploaded videos to Parler. These videos leaked, and here ProPublica visualizes them on a chronological timeline.
Report a dark pattern today. It will help us fight back against companies usingmanipulative dark patterns to take our private information, money, andtime. You deserve respect, online and off.
What do your tweets make other people think about your political views? If you are an American Twitter user, log-in to our app below to see how how our model scores your tweets on a continuum from "very liberal" to "very conservative."
Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.
Alloy
United States of America (the)Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.
We're talking to some of the most exciting scholars, activists, journalists, and entrepreneurs in our field about what's wrong with social media and how to fix it.
Ad Observer
New York University, New York, NY, USAPolitical campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.
Thoughtful engagement with decision-makers, stakeholders, and the general public provides the foundation for sound planning, successful projects, and better communities.
Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research.
@opengovjobs
Capitol HillTwitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.
Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente's Escuela de Activismo Digital (School of Digital Activism) is an e-learning platform to train emerging leaders in Latin America in digital activism methodologies.
A shadow oversight board comprised of outside critics of the company
Trigger apps to protect your privacy when in anxious or panic situations
A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work
The Fulcrum
United States of America (the)The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.
Enter your location and learn about the most popular song in your area, plus those nearby. By The Pudding.
Code Hopper is a repository to share code across the progressive community. Currently it consists of data wrangling functions, and our goal is to continually expand its scope.
DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.
Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.
A newsletter para quem quer informação direto da fonte! Dados e documentos inéditos, tutoriais, entrevistas, bastidores, notícias e reportagens sobre e usando a Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI). Feita pra você, a cada 15 dias, gratuitamente.
We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.
Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?
Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth
Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.
All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.
UnBias
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media
NYC Internet of Things Strategy
New York CityThe Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has developed the NYC Internet of Things Strategy in order to support a healthy cross-sector IoT ecosystem in New York City – one that is productive, responsible, and fair.
Technology and Public Purpose Fellowship at Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for practitioners at the intersection of responsible technology development to explore multidisciplinary approaches to maximizing the societal benefits of emerging technologies while minimizing the harms.
The IT University of Copenhagen and the Danish Agency of Digitisation have established a Research Centre for Government IT
Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.
The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date
European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds
Data For Progress
United States of America (the)A modernized think tank; fast-turnaround, social media-optimized, and rigorous analysis.
Gov.UK Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This 7 point framework will help government departments with the safe, sustainable and ethical use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems.
Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.
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