"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns
• Mapping

The main objective of this action is to develop a European network of actors focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice focused approach.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

Open data platform in Madagascar

• Open data publishing portals
• Civic data
• Open government data

We aim to translate activist power into political power by changing how we develop campaign leadership.

• trainings

• Fellowships
• Advocacy tech

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people
• Engagement tech

All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).

• reports

• Fieldwide resources

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap
• United Nations

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Mapping

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Data schemas and standards

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Service delivery

We are Environmental Defense Fund, the organization that is all-in on climate — the greatest challenge of our time. Our game-changing solutions put people at the center of all we do.

• Climate action
• Life below water
• Good health and well-being

A better and faster way to track methane

• Climate action
• methane

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

Discover social impact jobs supporting the Sustainable Development Goals at mission-driven organizations.

• Nonprofit tech
• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives
• Justice tech

Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.

• Media
• Engagement journalism
• Surveys & polling

We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.

• Quality education

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic maps

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Organize campaigns
• Academia
• Research and policy centers

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Upskilling
• Economic development

Informed Giving = More Effective Relief

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way

• Climate action

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

All Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

Code for Dallas is an official Code for America Brigade in Dallas, TX working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Conferences
• Meet the others

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Specific campaigns
• Advocacy tech

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Courses

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Courses

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fellowships
• Fight disinformation

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Archives

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic maps
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise
• surveillance

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Justice tech

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Courses
• Data science for social good

"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance."

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes
• Advocacy tech

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good
• Evaluate impact

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Narrative tech

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• Media
• Games and gamification

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Games and gamification
• Civic teams at tech companies

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Emerging tech
• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy