The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A comprehensive guide on how government agencies can recruit, hire, onboard, and retain digital talent.

• guides

• Govtech

“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

An initiative that "aims to examine the cross-pollination of talent and innovative ideas between the public and private sectors

• News and blogs

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Civic features

At the Innovation Lab, an arm of the Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team at the Government Accountability Office, we’re using emerging technology to rethink analytics, auditing, and cybersecurity.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.

• Participatory aid

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

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

• Design
• Co-design

A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

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

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

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

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Voting and elections
• 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
• Peer networks
• Civic tech catalogs

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

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.

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

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

The Liberating Voices pattern language is intended to help us develop the social imagination we need to better face the future as engaged and empowered citizens. Browse the patterns in the book or see all of the patterns in the pool environment.

• Fieldwide resources

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