Civic Tech Field Guide

Center for Humane Technology

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

Digital Impact

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

Data Harm Record

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

NYC Automated Decisions Systems Task Force

City Hall, Centre Street, New York, NY, USA

Local Law 49

Platform Coop

65 W 11th St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Supporting platform co-ops.

Obscuracam

Obscuracam is a photo and video app for Android that keeps certain information private. Last updated 2017.

apps

Bail-setting algorithms in Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Philadelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.

criminal justice

Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable accidents will requi...

Civic Data Alliance

Louisville, Kentucky

All The Data, For We The People

Coops.tech

Creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.

ethiTech

New York City

Our goal is to exponentially accelerate our ability to address global challenges that threaten our existence.

Fairwork

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

Ethics In Tech

Bay Area, CA, USA

Ethics In Technology works towards increased awareness around the ethical use of technology and seeks to make a positive impact through engaging the public at all levels of our society in conversation about these issues.

Principled Artificial Intelligence

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

A map of ethical and rights-based approaches

Responsible Data community

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

PeaceTech Living Learning Community

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

Peermaps

Puna District, Hawaii

Peermaps is a distributed, offline-friendly alternative to commercial map providers such as google maps. Instead of fetching data from a centralized tile service, your computer fetches map data from other peers across the network

The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere

New Haven, CT

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

doteveryone

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Between 2015 and 2020, Doteveryone helped to provoke change in how tech is made and used so that it serves a fair, inclusive and sustainable democratic society.

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

Data Commons Manifesto

Barcelona, Spain

It reflects the discussions and proposals of dozens of people and collectives involved in the Digital Democracy and Data Commons participatory process.

manifestos

Racial Literacy in Tech

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

racial equity

Landscape Analysis of Ethical Platforms

Germany (Deutschland)

A report on the pathologies of commercial platforms and benefits and challenges of ethical platforms

Eticas Consulting

Eticas teams up with organizations to identify black box algorithmic vulnerabilities and retrains AI-powered technology with better source data and content.

Data Scores as Governance

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

The ODI's Data Ethics Canvas

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.