The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Democratic Innovations

IAN is building a Slack community to connect our members and provide more opportunity for collaboration, networking and real time answers to legal questions.

• immigration

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

A multi-disciplinary research network linking philosophers, social scientists, computer scientists, legal scholars, and technologists.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Research and resources for city leaders to expand their problem-solving capacity, build effective city hall organizations, and improve outcomes for residents around the world

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academic programs

Founded in 2021 with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University serves a global community committed to improving public management, leadership, and governance.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Orbit Model is a framework for building and growing online communities

SXSW London 2025 is a new European edition of the iconic SXSW festival, bringing together creativity, technology, culture, and business across conferences, music, and film events

The document outlines the duty of candour regulations that require healthcare providers to be open and transparent with patients when things go wrong with their care and treatment

• United Kingdom (government)

The content on LetThePeopleVote

This event is an 'Edge City Dinner' where builders, scientists, researchers, and creators will come together to explore ideas for an upcoming month-long popup village called 'Edge City UK' near London

The post announces the launch of monthly coordination calls for European AI safety field builders, organized by ENAIS

The UK government is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to allow the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud, which would undermine the privacy and security of all users

Dollar Street is a Gapminder project that features photos and videos of 469 families across 67 countries, aiming to challenge stereotypes and provide a data-driven perspective on global living conditions

The UK government is seeking public input on how to address the complex issues surrounding copyright and the use of copyrighted works in the training of AI models

• United Kingdom (government)

Chayn, a growing organization, is hosting a Work In Progress (WIP) night in London to showcase their ongoing projects, gather feedback, and connect with their community of volunteers, partners, funders, and supporters

Burning Nest is a seven-day co-created experience of art, community, celebration, and silliness in a secret location in Devon, UK

The Trust, Accountability, and Inclusion Collaborative (TAI) released its 2024 Annual Report, highlighting its efforts to support funders in being responsive, informed, and interconnected amidst global challenges to trust, accountability, and inclusion

The Apothecary Network is a project that explores how creative technology can play a role in climate action, focusing on herbalism and community

OpenAI is funding research at Duke University to develop algorithms that can predict human moral judgments in scenarios involving conflicts among morally relevant features in medicine, law, and business

This unconference aims to engage people, particularly those in the public sector, on ensuring that public, community, and worker voices are heard in decisions about data, digital, and AI used in the public sector

Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority that provides free, automated, and open TLS certificates to over 550 million websites

Network School is founding a new academic community on an island near Singapore, starting with a 90-day popup on September 23

All Day TA is an AI-powered teaching assistant that provides 24/7 access to accurate, professor-approved answers for students

The Data for Policy 2025 Europe conference will explore the transformative power of data and AI in driving sustainability and inclusion, focusing on the 'twin transition' of digital and green transformations

The report explores the potential for social justice organizations in the Majority World to transition to alternative social media platforms, such as Mastodon and BlueSky, as a way to address the concerns and limitations of mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter

Critical Infrastructure Studies (CIstudies

This video appears to be the introduction to a conversation series about the age of artificial intelligence (AI)

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D human poses from 2D keypoints using a deep neural network

A new AI Energy Score tool allows users to compare the energy efficiency and environmental impact of different AI models, helping companies and developers make more informed decisions about the sustainability of the AI tools they use

This paper proposes a model called Edisum that can generate useful edit summaries for Wikipedia edits at scale

MuDG is a platform that aims to improve the quality of debates and discussions by recognizing the inherent structure of conversations as graphs, and using AI to augment and refine concepts, explore interesting directions, and enable collaboration through building knowledge and fostering productive debate together

This community call will discuss the potential role of digital twins in governance, including how they could help solve challenges, the need to ensure they remain ethical and secure, and the balance between transparency and privacy concerns

Community Models is a platform that enables groups of people to collaboratively create and refine AI models based on collectively defined constitutions, with the goal of democratizing AI alignment by allowing diverse groups to shape AI behavior according to their shared values and preferences

Chore Wheel is a software platform designed to simplify the management of shared living spaces, such as coliving communities, casual roommates, and cohabitating partners

The Surveillance Self-Defense guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides expert tips, tools, and how-to's for safer online communications and protecting against online spying

WikiTok is a platform that allows users to create and share short educational videos on a variety of topics

semanticClimate is a project that aims to leverage semantic web technologies to improve climate data and knowledge sharing

Looking For Growth #1 is an event organized by FutureLondon

This repository curates a list of publicly available datasets published by or relevant to the UK government, with the goal of making these resources more accessible to the broader data community

A Senate investigation led by Ted Cruz uncovered over $2 billion in federal funding awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during the Biden administration that was diverted towards questionable projects promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advancing neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda

Knowing is a platform that aims to help people make more informed decisions by providing access to reliable information and analysis on a variety of topics

MuDG is a platform that aims to improve the quality of debates and discussions by recognizing the inherent structure of conversations as graphs, and using AI to augment and refine concepts, explore interesting directions, and foster productive collaboration through building shared knowledge

ENAIS has launched a newsletter specifically for AI safety field builders, with a focus on Europe but expected to be useful for organizers located elsewhere as well

This document appears to be a report on community notes related to misinformation and disinformation in 2024

Rocket

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D human models from a single input image

Amnesty International's Algorithmic Accountability Lab conducted a two-year investigation into the use of algorithms and AI by Denmark's welfare agency, Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), revealing troubling patterns of discriminatory practices that target vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, marginalized racial groups, migrants, and refugees seeking benefits