SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsletters

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Social media

What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups
• Algorithmic transparency

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Regulation

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy in the United Kingdom.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Games and gamification
• Nonprofit tech

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

USAID’s first Digital Strategy charts an agency-wide approach to development in a rapidly evolving digital age.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

​​The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.

• Get funding
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Nonprofit tech

empowering citizens to monitor local government budgets and development plans in Ghana.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

The data analytics platform for impact-driven organizations.

• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media literacy
• Consumer watchdogging

by the Alliance for Innovation

• Govtech
• Conferences

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Supporting public sector from outside government

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

• surveillance

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• cities

• Civic data
• Incubators

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The ‘Zombie Tracker’ is a platform which monitors cases which include a charge under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended in 2008).

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Policy explainers

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Peer-reviewed research
• Behavioral economics programs

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.

• Civic data
• Awards and prizes
• Open government data

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.

• Ballot information

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) is a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations including BLVD Harambee.

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

The Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.

• reports

• Media
• Fieldwide resources
• Nonprofit newsrooms

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech