SMARTFISH H2020 is an international research project which aims to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector.

• Life below water
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

This Ford Foundation toolkit includes introductory disability definitions and language guidelines, in addition to guidance on creating accessible in-person and virtual events, social media, and disability inclusive employment practices from recruitment to retention.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.

• human rights

• Media
• Media monitoring

Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab's Guidebook

• local
• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

Signalboost gives grassroots organizers the power to communicate with mass audiences securely and directly via message broadcasts and hotlines.

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Hotlines

Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Civic tech catalogs

BoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC

• templates

• Meeting tech

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.

• Consumer watchdogging

The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• People Powered

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

Plan✕ is a platform for creating and publishing digital planning services. It aims to make planning less hard work, for everyone.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers

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

Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand

• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic hackathons

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.

• Media and social media analysis
• Timelines

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic tech

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators

By CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

ᴜᴄʟᴀʙ is a visualization research group situated  between design, computing, and the humanities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Have you or someone you know been subjected to an unfair stop or search? Enter the stop information to view all data associated with that particular officer.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech

We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

• books

• Govtech
• Books

"US governments struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies and with the expectations of the public for governmental service delivery akin to what they experience in other aspects of their normal daily lives."

• books

• Govtech
• Books

Report a dark pattern today. It will help us fight back against companies usingmanipulative dark patterns to take our private information, money, andtime. You deserve respect, online and off.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Nonprofit Giving Platform

• Fundraising tools

Hosted by Caterina Fake, Should This Exist? is a show that takes a single technology and asks: What is its greatest potential? And what could possibly go wrong?

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Podcasts

IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.

• banking
• Reduced inequalities

• Specific campaigns

netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which follows a novel transdisciplinary methodology on treating network infrastructure as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, self-determination, and social integration.

• research

• Connectivity
• Decentralization
• Community wifi

Human-centered design frameworks start by identifying who a product is for and then placing them at the center of the product strategy

• Design
• Toolkits

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

A program that helps public intrapreneurs within cities around the world to develop their data innovation ideas into reality by providing dedicated support across a 6 month period.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Building inside government

Real conversations. Real fast.

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

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

The ODK-X community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• Tech or Digital Policy

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

DSFSG aims to enable collaboration within the data software for social good ecosystem and welcome a diverse and independent set of member projects.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Data science for social good

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging
• Fellowships

Now available at https://hansard.parliament.uk/

• Graveyard
• Archives
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech