Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement

• books

• Books
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Manage volunteers

A world map displaying the locations of indigenous peoples whose lands have been taken

• Civic maps

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

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

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

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

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

• Find a job or hire someone

Taught by David Eaves

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Courses

OpenCovid19 is a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• COVID Engagement Projects

Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W

• Fellowships
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic and social impact companies

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Brick House Cooperative is a publishing platform designed, owned and operated by journalists—ad-free, expandable and subscription-based.

• Media
• Platform coops

Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services

• Fellowships

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.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

The Polarization Lab at Duke brings together scholars from the social sciences, statistics, and computer science to study how to bridge America’s partisan divide.

• Research and policy centers
• Filter bubble poppers
• Polarization

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

Tifa Foundation is a grant-making organization that works to promote an open society by actively strengthening civil society in Indonesia.

• Funders & donors

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Concise summaries of a range of tech + society considerations

• News and blogs

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

• Media and social media analysis

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

• Fight disinformation

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

Academy includes outcomes-driven online trainings for anyone, anywhere onthe essential skills and tools for making an impact in the 21st Century.

• trainings

• Govtech vendors

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

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

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

open data, transparent society

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The MSCAPP curriculum is a three-legged stool, building foundational knowledge of computer science, statistics, and public policy analysis.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Degree programs

Humanity Innovation Labs is an agile consultancy that offers Mixed Methods Research, UX/UI, and Industrial Design services for emerging technologies within wearable computing (e.g. physical devices and digital experiences).

• Civic and social impact companies
• Design

The International Journalism Festival and members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development call for increased support of independent media and journalists in Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Media
• Solidarity networks

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

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

WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Whistleblowing

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.

• Ukraine
• human rights

• Fight disinformation

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

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

Research with Code for America on CalFresh, by Donald Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, and Julie Sutherland finds "hard evidence on the barriers administrative burdens pose."

• research

• Peer-reviewed research
• Access social benefits

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

• books
• cities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

A new kind of public institution, the world’s first data utility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Find organizations, chapters, and groups that are leading the progressive movement.

• partisan

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.

• guides
• racial equity
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Civic data

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

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact