"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Access social benefits

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

• books

• Govtech
• Books
• Public Private Partnerships

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

YoMobi is a digital platform cooperative that empowers youth organisations by providing tools for skill development, learning, and community engagement to tackle youth unemployment and enhance socio-economic inclusion.

• youth
• apps
• Decent work and economic growth

• Nonprofit tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Citizen Engagement

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

Public Policy Lab has launched a new qualitative research platform designed to inform policy.

• seniors

• Narrative tech
• Research tools
• Policy

Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.

• Academia
• Courses
• Design

Stump is a non-partisan tool for empowering voters to participate in democracy in a real-time, social, and impactful way.

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Digital rights

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

To...help governments hire more effectively, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) has actively engaged government organizations at the state, county, and city levels to optimize their talent practices and build digital capacity — and we’ve learned some things.

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Tech talent

Our mission is to mobilize the power of citizens via mobile and digital technologies for better access to water and sanitation.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

Democratizing artificial intelligence for improving permitting outcomes and efficiency

• Affordable and clean energy

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Permitting

The River Thames Water Quality Testing Group is operated by volunteers who enjoy wild swimming, paddle-boarding and boating, and are concerned about the water quality in the River Thames and the lack of up-to-date information.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Citizen science

• Fight disinformation
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Terner Labs scales critical housing innovations at the intersection of equity, affordability, and sustainability.

• housing

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you're looking at, or use it as your own personal tour guide in a new city.

• Mapping tools

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification

The Lawyers Hub is a Pan-African Digital Law and Policy Organization working at the confluence of Law and Technology.

• Legal tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

GeoServer is an open source server for sharing geospatial data.

• Mapping
• Mapping platforms

Allows for creation of map and visualising data.

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Mapping platforms

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Tells a story based on a series of singular point locations.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping tools

Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.

• Civic data
• Mapping tools

Your personal bullshit🤌 detector for the Internet.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation

All Tech Is Human’s mission is to grow and diversify the entire Responsible Tech community. The University Network serves that mission by extending opportunities for learning and career growth (and a good time!) to affiliated student clubs at colleges and universities across the globe.

• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification

The Government of Flanders is developing the digital talents of all people of Flanders. It valorises data as a raw material of the economy and society and is working on the digital transformation of public service delivery.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

an initiative aimed at recovering lost or undocumented visual memories using AI image generation.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Artistic interventions

Ona Data is our flagship mobile data collection platform, used by thousands of organizations globally for data collection and real-time monitoring.

• Surveys & polling

The Africa Law Tech Festival is the largest Law and Tech conference in Africa, convening over 2000 delegates from 40+ countries.

• Conferences
• Legal tech

This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Games and gamification

Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification

The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Crowdsourcing

Cali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Editorial El Tiempo, la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá y la Fundación Corona.

• cities

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

FMTM (beta release) allows for coordinating field mapping activities in Open Mapping campaigns. While there are existing field mapping applications, there is a lack of efficient tools to coordinate these activities. The FMTM builds on the HOT Tasking Manager and other mapping applications to provide a more streamlined and organized process for completing mapping tasks.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

In conjunction with OpenStreetMap, we are creating tools that we hope will enable the mapping community to enjoy a faster & more accurate mapping experience. To this end, we used artificial intelligence to predict features on high-resolution satellite imagery; these features are then populated in our RapiD map editing tool. When combined with global-scale humanitarian efforts, we hope RapiD can help realize our vision of a more connected world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. Entirely free.

• Mapping tools

Block Head - Jack Dorsey's public fund for global COVID-19 relief. After the pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI.

• Get funding
• Investors

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry.

• surveillance

• Digital security and privacy
• Data visualization
• Digital rights

Tech for Democracy is a Danish-led initiative that brings together representatives from governments, multilateral organisations, tech industry and civil society to make technology work for democracy and human rights, not against them.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Funders & donors
• Partner networks and coalitions

In 2023, the Danish Board of Technology and ParticipationDenmark merged. We are now called DEMOCRACY X, with a focus on technology, society and sustainability.

• Climate action

• Emerging tech
• Campaign organizations

We are a research and design studio partnering up with organisations to build change through data, community, and arts.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Tella is a mobile tool designed for activists, human rights defenders, and journalists facing high levels of repression and surveillance. With Tella, users can seamlessly hide and encrypt sensitive material in a secure container on their mobile device and securely send this material to the servers of the organization or partner they're working with.

Nonpartisan political education app.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Voter registration

to conduct penetration testing of voting machines to identify new vulnerabilities and raise awareness with election officials nationwide who use the equipment.