The Technology Assessment Design Handbook offers both GAO’s own staff and other interested users tools and approaches to think about when designing technology assessments.

• handbooks
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Procurement

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

Guatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Engagement tech
• Data visualization
• Surveys & polling

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• city
• racial equity

• Media

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

• Games and gamification

In the winter of 2020-2021 Center for Urban Pedagogy collaborated with eight Teaching Artists to create civically-engaged art activities to do at home!

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

The Studio at Cornell Tech is a place for students, faculty and practitioners from across disciplines and industries to come together and bridge the gap between the ideas generated in an academic institution and the products that people use every day.

• Research and policy centers

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño del Tecnológico de Monterrey; es un espacio queofrece información actual y útil que permite el análisis, medición yevaluación de las ciudades mexicanas, para incidir en la planeación y latoma de decisiones que contribuirán a mejorar la calidad de vida urbana delas personas.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Indicators

Tifa Foundation is a grant-making organization that works to promote an open society by actively strengthening civil society in Indonesia.

• Funders & donors

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.

• guides

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W

• Fellowships
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector.

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Decentralization
• Incubators

The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising

• partisan

• Fundraising tools

We’re power sector experts who gather, curate and analyse data to empower climate campaign organisations. Our data & analysis helps to shape the global narrative on coal.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Civic data

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

Disclose is a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

• Design
• Social impact design firms

The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital transformation

a multi-dimensional digital agency for organizations on a mission

• Social impact design firms

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

An Airtable of over 200 social change design firms led by BIPoC. Curated by George Aye.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Design
• Social impact design firms

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• People Powered
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting
• Civic tech catalogs

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and society in general, professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering, science, and technology, and open discussion on the resulting issues.

• Predecessors
• Trade groups

How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning. 

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

Compara aquí las posturas de distintos actores políticos para Chile

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

We build digital brands and products for the future of government. A digital brand and product design studio

• Social impact design firms

The XR Collaboratory (XRC) at Cornell Tech works with faculty, researchers and students from computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction, as well as practitioners in application areas such as healthcare, education, and architecture.

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

We are a specialist group of journalists, technologists, digital storytellers and development practitioners. We work together to tackle voicelessness, surfacing stories from unheard groups worldwide.

• Media

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

• Fight disinformation

If you're new to the Good Tech Fest community, we work to utilize data and technology for social impact. Unlike other nonprofit or social sector technology conferences, we are very much focused on program and field technologies. Basically, how can we use technology to further our mission?

• Conferences

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

• land

• Civic maps

DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.

• toolkits
• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.

• racial equity

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

• soil
• Climate action

• Civic maps

We co-create and facilitate a network of local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on existing expertise in drones, data and AI, the “Flying Labs®” network.

• Drones