FightHoax offered a seamless way to extract actionable insights from news, allowing DSPs to increase the advertising ROI for their customers, through smart brand safety filters and deep contextual targeting.

• commercial

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

AFRICMIL is non-government organisation that focuses on media, information, research, advocacy and training. It aims to promote media and information literacy as a key component in the enhancement of democracy and good governance and the promotion of accountability and orderly society.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Launching LCR Analytics…

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics

• resources

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Think of us as talent matchmakers for democracy (but with less swiping and fewer awkward one-liners)

• partisan

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Job-matching

Adaptable buttons and mice for everyone

• Microsoft

• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.

• Partner networks and coalitions

The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.

• United States (federal government)

• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Data governance

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Books

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

UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

MisinfoDay is an annual event co-hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.

• Fight disinformation
• Holidays

A great overview map and gallery of the global trend toward open streets

• mobility

• Civic maps

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Challenges

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• Specific campaigns

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

• Challenges
• Public project trackers

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

• Digital rights

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity report is the annual flagship publication of the Connected Society programme.

• reports

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Connectivity

We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

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

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

• resources
• guides

• Govtech

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

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

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

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

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

• Mapping tools

The e-LIberate / openDCN tool supports synchronous online deliberation with the goal of making decisions. 

• Deliberation
• Predecessors
• Meeting tech

A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible

• guides
• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

It educated policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks
• Predecessors

The ODK-X community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• Tech or Digital Policy

PLACE is a non-profit data trust that creates and stewards hyperlocal mapping data for a membership community that is open to all and serves the public interest.

• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

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

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software.

• Find a job or hire someone

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

• Find a job or hire someone

/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.

• racial equity

• Peer networks

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

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

• human rights

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Tools for Funders

The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Justice tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Data schemas and standards
• Digital Public Goods
• Taxonomies

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Digital transformation

Code for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid