In a first-of-its-kind project, The Circuit collected and cleaned millions of records from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County’s mainframe computer system.

Kaggle is the world’s largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals.

At the University of the Andes

• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.

• human rights
• criminal justice

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

The Igarapé Institute is an independent think and do tank focused on the areas of public, climate and digital security and its consequences for democracy

Openpolis è una fondazione indipendente e senza scopo di lucro che promuove progetti per l'accesso alle informazioni pubbliche, la trasparenza e la partecipazione democratica

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and

• Engagement tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

• human rights
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

We are building an emerging field of internet research with a feminist approach, to inform and influence activism and policymaking.

• Gender Equality

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity - we believe in media and communication for good

• Media

United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country. We fight for justice and dignity for all immigrants.

Digital Vereint is a platform that aims to support civil society organisations and their digital work.

The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

Advancing media through exploration and experimentation.

NATOA promotes community interests in communications. A national trade association based in Alexandria, VA, NATOA represents local government.

We build tools that foster civic participation, civc education, and government transparency. Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Academia

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Cameras

Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save keeps you in control of your mobile media at all times.

• apps

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.

• Fight disinformation
• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.

• Conferences
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors

2022 is going to be another record-breaking year for Black women candidates, and Higher Heights for America has collected the information for every Black woman running for office at the state and federal levels. These Black women are ready to run, win, and lead.

• racial equity

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger
• United Nations

• Challenges

Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work!

• books

• Artistic interventions
• Books

Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech

privacy filters for shared location links

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Location

This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Working groups
• Data governance

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University

• reports

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Data donations

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

• air quality

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. Read our intro

• Get funding
• Effective altruism
• Open philanthropy

Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumplir con valores de gobernanza imprescindibles en nuestros días como la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Advocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.

• trainings

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy

If you are a human rights defender at risk as a result of your work, ProtectDefenders.eu is to support you

• human rights

• Solidarity networks

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Diversity & Inclusion

We have all the redistricting data you can use to draw or analyze Community of Interest or District maps

• gerrymandering

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure

• United Nations

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Foundation initiatives

The Racism and Technology Center uses technology as a mirror to reflect and make visible existing racist practices in Dutch society.

• racial equity

Providing democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space

• Media
• Govtech
• Fight disinformation