The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest

• experiments

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

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

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

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

• The People
• Build something
• Learn about civic tech

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Nonprofit tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

CommonPlace, the Civic Tech Lab’s flagship project, is a civic-minded, not-for-profit, and open source web platform for local community engagement.

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies

IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

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

A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Fundraising tools
• Socialize online

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Public Interest Tech
• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Code for America Technology Awards recognize outstanding products and implementations of government technology.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Roundtables

The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.

• opioids

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

• Microsoft

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.

• Predecessors

Taking control of our movement technology

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology assessment.

• Predecessors

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• city

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.

• indigenous

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Seattle's Civic Tech Advocate Promotes Innovation, Engagement

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

• racial equity
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Vulcan is developing solutions to address some of the world’s toughest challenges – from protecting Africa’s elephants to bringing reliable power and connectivity to underserved areas.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

A Distributed Network of Institutions for Peer to Peer Public Deliberation

• The People
• Peer networks
• Meet the others

CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.

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

The Public Interest Technology Summit is the evolution of the Alumni Digital Summit hosted last October in collaboration with Alumni Relations.

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

Technology at work for the public

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Get funding

Google Group

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. ‎Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...

• Facebook

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

A professional development course for election officials

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

• curricula
• women
• Gender Equality

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

GSA’s Emerging Citizen Technology program collaborates with U.S. businesses, civic organizations and inter-agency communities.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

What are your hopes and dreams for California's new Office of Digital Innovation?

• All Our Ideas

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Civic tech community surveys

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

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

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

La Alianza Latinoamericana para la Tecnología Cívica (ALTEC) es el resultado de la alianza entre Luminate Group y Fundación Avina que busca promover el desarrollo de iniciativas de tecnología cívica con el potencial de mejorar y ampliar el ejercicio de la ciudadanía no sólo como un fin sino como un vehículo para alcanzar cambios positivos en prácticas de efecto colectivo, tanto públicas como privadas.

• The People
• Civic tech catalogs
• Get funding

Modernizing engagement between local government and the people you serve

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Our mission is to deliver user-centered technology solutions that simplify access to City services and drive innovation.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Internal government tech capacity

Supported by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Grants Programme, this guidance is designed to help employers and engineers to involve workers and their representatives in the design, development and deployment of algorithmic systems so that risks are anticipated and managed, 'good work' is promoted, the law is complied with, innovative approaches are unlocked and trust in technology is built.

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Datashades.info is a comprehensive search hub and discovery tool for the global CKAN community, designed to enhance the accessibility and usability of open data.

ohsomeNow Stats is being developed and provided by HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) and offers up-to-date and global scale overview statistics on mapping activity in OpenStreetMap (OSM).

• Evaluate impact
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Indicators

The Deepfake Sandbox is an interactive demo that allows you to create a deepfake of yourself in mere seconds. After the photo is generated, we examine the societal implications of deepfakes and other AI technology.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• Deepfakes

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Digital peacebuilding
• Research and policy centers
• Academia