Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Enabling NGOs to get the most out of technology

• Nonprofit tech

Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.

• Bots
• Messaging
• Nonprofit tech

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

This course provides users with a practical introduction to the topic and importance of data quality. It discusses key concepts and offers clear exercises on accessing good data and evaluating the quality of data. Available in English and French.

• Civic data
• Online courses

A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Online courses

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Artificial Intelligence

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.

• Activism aggregators
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

We identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.

• 2024 elections

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

• Life below water
• cities
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Graveyard
• Messaging
• Direct action

We help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Story tech

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Georgia's freedom of information platform (Alavateli instance)

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Fight disinformation

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

• Media literacy
• Games and gamification

We partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.

• Civic and social impact companies
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

• cities

• Govtech
• Foundation initiatives
• Data science for social good

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Social impact design firms

This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Govtech
• Reports

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

• Evaluate impact
• Data science for social good

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Citizen Engagement

FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Adjacent Fields

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech

Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

Community-driven litigation for racial, social, and economic justice

• Advocacy tech
• Justice tech

JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.

• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• Artificial Intelligence

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Research and policy centers
• Learn about civic tech
• Civil society research outfits

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Justice tech
• Legal tech

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Digital security and privacy
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something