Report for the World matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Concise summaries of a range of tech + society considerations

• News and blogs

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.

• racial equity

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

A first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Public Private Partnerships
• COVID Data Projects

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers

• Digital literacy

An Airtable of over 200 social change design firms led by BIPoC. Curated by George Aye.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Design
• Social impact design firms

A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice

• racial equity

• Cameras

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Benchmarks

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

• labor
• Amazon

• Crowdsourcing

How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Distributing air sensors to volunteer cyclists to map pollution data throughout Lisbon Sensores distribuídos. Cinco dezenas de ciclistas vão andar a medir a poluição atmosférica – Lisboa Para Pessoas

• cycling
• air quality

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning. 

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Justice tech

Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) is a national nonprofit that harnesses the power of data, technology, and policy to provide efficient and dignified access to assistance.

• Access social benefits

Filter and aggregate data to provinces or districts without code or mapping software

• Mapping tools

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

Real conversations. Real fast.

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

A media and research project to advance the tech workers movement.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Solidarity networks

eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.

• Communicating with the people
• Surveys & polling

After playing thousands of hours of transportation simulation games, we were left wondering what could happen if some of the traditional limits of the genre didn't exist: in map sizes, track layout complexity, or train scheduling.

• mass transit

• Games and gamification

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

We empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators
• Social impact design firms

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information
• Cameras

One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.

• waste
• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising

• partisan

• Fundraising tools

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

The front of each can of Fair Maps IPA shows Wisconsin's state legislative and congressional districts prior to 2011, then the back reveals the drastic change in election maps after the last round of redistricting.

• gerrymandering

• Artistic interventions

A guide on how to manage technical debt in government software development projects.

• resources
• guides

• Govtech

Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー

• Conferences

The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital transformation

Connecting organizations with technical challenges to students who have the technical skills to solve them

• students

• Resource matching and sharing

Archive of New York City directories

• city
• libraries
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Predecessors

Über die Infrastruktur X-Road tauschen Behörden im digitalen Vorzeigestaat Estland Daten aus.

• Govtech

A list of github accounts of various news organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Reading lists

Disclose is a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

• Design
• Social impact design firms

a multi-dimensional digital agency for organizations on a mission

• Social impact design firms

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

THE UNSEEN TEEN: The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People a report by Data & Society

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Academia

The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C

• No poverty

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Advertising

A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet

• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Spotlight on Corruption works to end corruption within the UK and wherever the UK has influence · We track how the UK enforces its anti-corruption laws

• Watchdogging and transparency