Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.

• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Engage residents with mapping and commenting

Participatory engagement organization in Chengdu

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

Baltimore City Council Bill 19-0429 requires the Department of Housing & Community Development to post signage on vacant buildings that will identify owners so that they can be held accountable by the public.

• housing
• place-based

• Cameras

Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Accountancy is in crisis. The Corporate Accountability Network exists to identify the causes of that crisis and offer solutions to it.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Exploring the impact of new technologies on questions of social, racial, and economic justice

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.

• human rights
• research
• No poverty

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

With CitySourced, you can deploy an unlimited number of applications to a single native app. From paying bills to election info to FAQs or newsletter signups - downloading a single app is easier for citizens, and it's easier for you!

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

The Greater Washington Community Foundation works to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our community

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

The CSAP uses interactive radio shows (radio dialogues in combination with SMS feedback) to enable citizens to hold their leaders to account by asking the hard questions

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century

• The Tech
• Govtech

Transitioning Ireland to a society based on sustainable practices will require behavioural insights to influence change.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of lobbying activities in the UK.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Fluicity is a community engagement software for public and private entities

• apps
• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy

• city

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Patronicity brings together local citizens and sponsors to support great initiatives in their communities.

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

A simple citybuilder

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open science

Tech Solidarity was a 501(c)4 grass-roots organization with the motto 'technology serves people'. It represents a failed attempt in the period 2016-2018 to organize tech workers around an ethical agenda.

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view

• Service delivery
• User research

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Urban Affairs Magazine

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The must-attend gigabit technology conference for city and community leaders.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Public Interest Tech

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Community Leaders for Internet Health spotlights internet issues in diverse local community contexts and creates collaboration among local leaders to engage with tools for open campaigning towards Internet Health

• Foundational layers
• Open internet

City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs