THE UNSEEN TEEN: The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People a report by Data & Society

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand

• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic hackathons

We work with state and local governments to help with prototyping and procurement for federally-funded digital public services, using agile acquisition consulting services.

• local
• state
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Graveyard

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.

• Media and social media analysis
• Timelines

What if we could use rules, tests, and parameters to isolate hate speech? Can we identify and analyze elements like speaker intent, context, identity, tone, audience, or any number of indicators that transform words into meanings and change an innocuous statement into a verbal assault? Combating the proliferation of online hate speech and understanding its mechanics is a complex undertaking

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Media and social media analysis

a multi-dimensional digital agency for organizations on a mission

• Social impact design firms

By MIMI ỌNỤỌHA

• Civic data
• Artistic interventions

Building a European inclusive network for women in immersive technologies through networking events, resources and campaigns

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic tech

Resources for building open organizations The Open Organization is a community-driven project leading a global conversation about the ways open principles change how people work, manage, and lead. Our community members generate knowledge and share strategies for building organizational cultures on principles like transparency, adaptability, collaboration, inclusivity, and community.

• Adjacent Fields

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

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Books

Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

Safeguard voters’ rights with data-driven insights. Alloy Protect is an email report that helps election protection groups defend voter rights through transparent, timely access to voter file insights and data.

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Voter assistance tech

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Academia

The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C

• No poverty

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Data labeling

Disclose is a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

• Design
• Social impact design firms

The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital transformation

Connecting organizations with technical challenges to students who have the technical skills to solve them

• students

• Resource matching and sharing

Archive of New York City directories

• city
• libraries
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Über die Infrastruktur X-Road tauschen Behörden im digitalen Vorzeigestaat Estland Daten aus.

• Govtech
• Data Exchanges

A list of github accounts of various news organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Reading lists

By CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

A project tracking the many attempts to modify the Chilean constitution

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Data visualization
• Constitutions

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

Visualizing climate change

• Climate action
• Clean water and sanitation

• Artistic interventions

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Fiquem Sabendo é uma organização sem fins lucrativos especializada noacesso a informações públicas

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Access to information

A weekly informed and concise guide to immigration news culled from hundreds of sources across the country.

• immigration

• Media

This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators
• Inactive Projects Archive

ᴜᴄʟᴀʙ is a visualization research group situated  between design, computing, and the humanities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers

Non-profit startup accelerator elevating #ClimateTech innovators & founders to move the needle on the climate crisis. Administered by SecondMuse

• Climate action

• Accelerators

People using Polarizer can rate the mutual polarization level of one-on-one chats. Their opinions and ratings are visualized as a network graph. The graph is clustered by the peoples mutual polarization ratings.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Polarization

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Public meetings

your platform for political dialogue

• Filter bubble poppers

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

A participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe

• Partner networks and coalitions

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Advertising

openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project is a groundbreaking, global, feminist investigative journalism initiative dedicated to exposing and challenging organised threats to women’s and LGBTIQ rights.

• LGBTQI
• women

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

This site gives you a clever way to explore historical aerial imagery of New York City. You can click and drag on the map to "scratch off" the historical imagery and reveal the same location's present-day imagery. By Chris Whong

• history

• Civic maps
• Games and gamification

Reset how you publish with Hypergraph (Beta) Document your research journey step by step, before hindsight happens. Easier for you, better for science. Hypergraph (Beta) is free-to-play, free-to-access, and will have some rough edges. By using it, you can help improve it.

• Citizen science

Community Based Alternatives to the Police Not911 is designed to direct you to New York City-based organizations that offer counseling, mediation and intervention services.

• apps

• Access social benefits
• Open justice

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

It answers the question “what can we do” by boosting the hell out of the great work being done in the resistance.

• Activism aggregators

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.

• Archives

Concise summaries of a range of tech + society considerations

• News and blogs