Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.

• partisan

• Peer to peer SMS

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society.

• Funders & donors

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

• police violence

• Justice tech

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

To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Awards and prizes

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Resident Fellows seek to advance society's understanding of surveillance capitalism and change the way Reset works by embedding within Reset to produce creative research and technology outputs.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships

Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.

• Govtech vendors

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

Taught by David Eaves

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Courses

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.

• Find a job or hire someone

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

• books

• Govtech
• Books

Participate in the international celebration of GIS technology.

• Mapping
• Holidays

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Pol Comm Tech is an academic research group at the University of Ottawa focused on exploring the intersections of politics, communication, and technology.

• Research and policy centers

Hosted by Caterina Fake, Should This Exist? is a show that takes a single technology and asks: What is its greatest potential? And what could possibly go wrong?

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Podcasts

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

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.

• Podcasts

A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.

• Media
• Conferences

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

• Courses
• Online courses

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Tools for Funders

Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

We’re a collection of agile technology and design firms that serve—or aspire to serve—the government.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Partner networks and coalitions

KivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Hubs

An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.

• Academia
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Journals

We are a group of badass scientists who use technology to empower communities across America.

• Data science for social good

The public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Let's co-create a more thoughtful future towards technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

• books
• city

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The 21st Century Vocabulary seeks to map and catalog the emergence of new terms to enable a more sophisticated public discourse on technology, innovation, and governance.

• Glossaries

We fund research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.

• gun safety

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Activism aggregators
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.

• guides
• urban planning

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

• food
• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Nonprofit tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

• Ethical tech and responsible tech