We want AI to benefit the world, so we must be thoughtful about how it’s built and used

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Alia was an online platform to help house cleaners get benefits. National Domestic Workers Alliance has pivoted to an organizational membership model instead of a branded platform.

• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Centering the knowledges of marginalised communities from around the world. Re-imagining the internet to be for and from us all.

• women

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Provincial powerhouse: Alberta’s new government lab

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

The intersection of the #NeverAgain movement and college admissions.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• city
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

Let's co-create a more thoughtful future towards technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency

An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.

• gun safety

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Civil society campaign to discuss ethical limits in the use of new technologies for electoral purposes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Take people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

A community of experienced Americans determined to change the world for the better.

• seniors

• Campaign organizations

Ghidul complet al alegerilor parlamentare din 11 decembrie. Compară aici candidații la alegerile parlamentare, programele de guvernare si orientarile ideologice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Im Zuge der Erstellung der Digitalen Agenda Wien kristallisierten sich neun Leitmotive für das Denken und Handeln aller Beteiligten heraus.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Code for BTV is an organization based in Vermont that works on projects to address technology problems for social and civic justice organizations.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Tools to build a movement

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

• Asian and Pacific Islander

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Este observatorio de compras públicas en Salud recopila datos sobre los precios que pagan diferentes organismos estatales por medicamentos para permitir su análisis y transparentar la información gubernamental.

• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

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

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

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

• books
• city

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

A mobile app to report sexual harassment. The collected data can be used as evidence to support preventive measures. Last updated Nov 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

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
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Watchdogging and transparency

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

• Google
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

A £100,000 prize fund to help bring Scotland’s innovative uses of AI for social good to life.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Gender Equality
• trainings
• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Foundational layers

By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.

• labor

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

AbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

We help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.

• resilience

• The People
• Graveyard
• Meet the others

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

• partisan

• The Tech
• The People
• Graveyard

Philanthropy / Foundations / Related grantees and projects

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards