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

Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden

• culture
• history
• place-based

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

• Artistic interventions
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

"a free interactive game available on Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Marketplace, designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires."

• Climate action

• Games and gamification

Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe

• guides

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Celebrating purpose & mission-driven work from people, companies and organizations worldwide.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Awards and prizes

The UK's Independent Promise Tracker

• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

We are a group of badass scientists who use technology to empower communities across America.

• Data science for social good

Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Participatory budgeting

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

• trainings

• Engagement tech

Etiqueta y visualiza el contenido de tu texto en relación con los objetivos de la Agenda 2030

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Data visualization

análisis de 30 medios de comunicación en España

• Media
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

Spanish promise tracker holding government and political parties to account

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

EL THINK-AND-DO TANK de la Fundación Salvador Soler

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• TICTeC 25

• Watchdogging and transparency

What stuck with us throughout this pandemic? Research project by @vishublab & @uclab_potsdam

• Archives
• Inactive Projects Archive
• COVID Engagement Projects

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights
• migration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital rights

The hearing aid that tracks body and brain health.

• Deaf

• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Wearables

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

The public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Solar Ear manufactures low cost, solar rechargeable and environment friendly hearing aids so you can hear perfectly again. Our products are manufactured by deaf workers with high quality components. FIND YOUR HEARING AID

• Deaf

• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Wearables

Using integrated sensors and artificial intelligence, Livio AI enhances your listening experiences, proactively manages your health and provides access to information to simplify your life.

• Deaf

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Grassroots fundraising with NFTs

• Campaign tools
• Blockchain
• Fundraising tools

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Resist the Parliament Shutdown. protest map, calendar, updates, posters.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.

• floods

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Weil Transparenz Vertrauen schafft

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

The 21st Century Vocabulary seeks to map and catalog the emergence of new terms to enable a more sophisticated public discourse on technology, innovation, and governance.

• Glossaries

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Turn your online outrage into offline action

• resources
• trainings

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Tactical voting against the Tories.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

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

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

tracked edits made to Wikipedia from U.S. Capitol computers

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard

Build your virtual foundation. Support the causes you care about.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.

• guides

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

We, the workers of Code for America, are proud to announce that we are unionizing.

• labor

• Civic tech unions

committed to fact-checking in a fair, transparent and non-partisan manner.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Government software that streamlines land, permitting, asset, licensing, right-of-way, legislative management, and resource and recreation management processes.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.

• The People
• Research and policy centers

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• city
• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

A 24 hour Covid Vigil, May 20 - May 21, 2PM-2PM ET

• Participatory memorials
• COVID Engagement Projects

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

• city

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy