Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020

• Media and social media analysis

Tech hub empowering youth through innovation, entrepreneurship, Civic tech, SDG and Tech4good in Africa

• Hubs
• Incubators

A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio

• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Group decision making

We’re a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change.

• Behavioral economics programs

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

• land

• Civic maps

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

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

A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

A Google Sheet comparing popular meeting livestreaming solutions with government meetings in mind

• Meeting tech

Welcome to the World of Twisted ToysTM, a wonderland of excitement, experiences and exploitation. We pride ourselves on making toys that are addictive, risky and put you completely under our control.

• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

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

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.

• Learn about civic tech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Reading lists

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

Adding additional products to users’ shopping carts without their consent.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.

• toolkits
• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.

• Fight disinformation
• Shows and films

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.

• Archives

If you're new to the Good Tech Fest community, we work to utilize data and technology for social impact. Unlike other nonprofit or social sector technology conferences, we are very much focused on program and field technologies. Basically, how can we use technology to further our mission?

• Conferences

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

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Research and policy centers
• Conferences
• Academia

A self-directed learning program, adapted from a selective executive education course, intended to support data stewards in creating public value through data collaboration

• trainings

• Civic data

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

PIT Commons of DC is a multidisciplinary collaboration of DC institutions providing open access PIT career development resources to DC prof/grad students.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Fighting to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election

• Distributed campaigns

A global map of malaria rates over time

• Good health and well-being
• malaria

• Civic maps

Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño del Tecnológico de Monterrey; es un espacio queofrece información actual y útil que permite el análisis, medición yevaluación de las ciudades mexicanas, para incidir en la planeación y latoma de decisiones que contribuirán a mejorar la calidad de vida urbana delas personas.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Indicators

The adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.

• police violence

• Justice tech

Design With is a free, self-scheduled guide to collaborative design for social change.

• Design
• Co-design

Diversify Tech connects underrepresented people in tech to jobs scholarships, events, speaking opportunities and more.

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Newsletters

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

• Fight disinformation

utility for getting information about the APKs that are installed on your device

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment

• Artistic interventions
• Walking tours

Craft @ Large ...is an Intergenerational, Intercultural Hackerspace in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH

• Hubs
• Digital fabrication

The premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics

• Data visualization
• Conferences

Synthesize qualitative data

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

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
• COVID Data Projects
• Public Private Partnerships

Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and society in general, professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering, science, and technology, and open discussion on the resulting issues.

• Predecessors
• Trade groups

The Myanmar Tech Accountability Network (MTAN) is a network of Myanmar civil society organizations coordinating efforts to mitigate the risk of social media induced violence and political instability in Myanmar.

• Voting and elections
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

Home of agate, csvkit, proof, and other tools for journalists and data users.

• Media
• Journalism

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• People Powered
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Peer networks

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs