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The People's Bus
New York CityThe People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media
NYC Internet of Things Strategy
New York CityThe Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has developed the NYC Internet of Things Strategy in order to support a healthy cross-sector IoT ecosystem in New York City – one that is productive, responsible, and fair.
The IT University of Copenhagen and the Danish Agency of Digitisation have established a Research Centre for Government IT
Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.
The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date
596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.
One Dollar Lots
New York CityOne Dollar Lots documented each time NYC sells or plans to sell a vacant lot to developers for $1. This tool can help New Yorkers better shape how dollar sales of public land impact our neighborhoods and city.
Democracy Workers Collective
New York CityA union for Democracy Works employees. Fulfilling the promise of a more equitable, sustainable, and representative democracy, inside and outside of Democracy Works.
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services.
The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.
The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook: Fully Integrating Online Service into Volunteer Involvement
Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement
@EveryCRSReport
Washington, DCTwitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.
Alloy Verify
United States of America (the)The easiest way to check the status of every voter. Alloy Verify is an API that helps voter registration groups, progressive campaigns, and political techies know who’s registered to vote. Get started for free
Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.
Urban Reviewer
New York CityUrban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.
In ever changing times, it is important for every citizen to have their voice heard. Polliticly is the app that lets you find your voice by tailoring polls and questions that relate to pressing issues in your community and then sends results of those polls to your local elected officials.
A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19
Digital.gov Communities of Practice
United States of America (the)Peer communities of digital US government workers. Collaborate and share resources with others across government. You must have a .gov email address to join.
COVID In Boston
Boston, MAWith 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.
We’re a leading independent digital agency that works with the public and third sectors. Last year, we worked with 80 organisations on over 140 projects to deliver positive, sustainable change.
A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work
DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.
European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds
Gov.UK Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This 7 point framework will help government departments with the safe, sustainable and ethical use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems.
This project attempts to document all collective action from workers in the tech industry. Contribute to our archive. Currently, there are 506 collective actions documented.
The Markup made a browser extension that restores search result pages to organic results.
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NYC[x] Innovation Fellows
New York City Hall, City Hall Park, New York, NY, USANew York City is launching the second cohort of its NYC[x] Innovation Fellows program to expand on this successful collaboration, embedding small teams of technologists with City agencies to rapidly solve specific challenges through the use of best practices in digital service delivery.
Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.
We want to change the way the internet enables the spread of news and information so it serves the public good over corporate and political interests.
El Observatorio de Ciudades
MonterreyArquitectura, 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.
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment
Urban Impact
EuropeWe empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.
The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising
Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator.
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.
The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.
Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond
New York City Directories
New York CityArchive of New York City directories
Ad Observer
New York University, New York, NY, USAPolitical campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.
Thoughtful engagement with decision-makers, stakeholders, and the general public provides the foundation for sound planning, successful projects, and better communities.
Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente's Escuela de Activismo Digital (School of Digital Activism) is an e-learning platform to train emerging leaders in Latin America in digital activism methodologies.
Grade DC
Washington, DCThis program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.
The Brick House Cooperative is a publishing platform designed, owned and operated by journalists—ad-free, expandable and subscription-based.
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
New York City, NY, USAA Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
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