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Exygy Housing
San FranciscoA housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.
All Things Urban
BerlinWe are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.
FixMyStreet Pro
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.
Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy
Georgia (US state)Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.
Code for Charlottesville
Charlottesville, VACode for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.
Data in the ATL
Georgia (US state)PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.
The Centre for Civic Innovation
Sydney NSW, AustraliaWhat would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
Alliance of Civic Technologists (ACT)
United States of America (the)ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award
18F, Technology Transformation ServicesTTS 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.
Common Measurements Tool
TorontoThe Common Measurements Tool (CMT) is a survey instrument built specifically for the public sector that can be used across the full range of service areas, service channels, and client types
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.
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El Avispero
BogotáWe 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.
Future of Work in the Global South
Buenos AiresFOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.
Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.
Do Open Data Impact on Citizens’ Behaviours?
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.
Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally
Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.
Are We Together?
Ethiopia (Ityop'iya)The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.
The Future of Privacy Forum
Washington, DCFPF 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.
A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums
Global Fact Check Fund
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USAThe Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.
Future of Privacy Forum Training Program
Washington, DCThe Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.
Uganda National ICT Innovation Hub
Kampala, UgandaThe Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USAThe Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.
Israel Tech Policy Institute
Tel Aviv, IsraelTech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
Hâck The Hague
The Hague, NetherlandsThe municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."
A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type
Rightly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
CivicDataLab
India (Bhārat)We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
Eye In The Sky
PortugalUsing High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
Justice Hub
BangaloreAn 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.
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.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
Beyond Binary Code Builder
New ZealandCode and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
Common Voice
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAMozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.
We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.
Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Walking Tour
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USATomiko Brown-Nagin, chair of the Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, introduces you to the Initiative's work and this tour.
Before The Bulldozers
Anacostia, DCIt’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.
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