A guide to the news company's data usage

• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

This tool allows the public to view, sort, filter, and download ballot images from the 2021 Coordinated Election, permitting an extra level of election transparency from the comfort and safety of their home.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Actionable data to bolster public safety

• Civic data
• Justice tech

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

• human rights

• Funders & donors
• Digital security and privacy

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

• Courses
• Online courses

The International Journalism Festival and members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development call for increased support of independent media and journalists in Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Media
• Solidarity networks

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital Public Infrastructure

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech vendors

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Peer networks

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• city
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.

• Govtech
• Civic data

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Justice tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Legal tech

Publish and preserve your data

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing platforms

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Digital transformation

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Whistleblowing

A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisiones automatizadas e inteligencia artificial en España.

• Digital security and privacy

KivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Hubs

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

The lives of Ukrainian children with cancer depend on specialized treatment. This is where they find critical help for them in Romania.

• Ukraine
• Good health and well-being

• Resource matching and sharing

HexaFair, an all-in-one 3D Virtual & Hybrid events platform for Events, Conferences & Summits, Fairs & Exhibitions, Careers & Job Fairs, Trade Shows, Industry Expos & Community Networking Meets

• The Tech
• Organize events

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine

• Ukraine
• refugees
• racial equity

• Support civic projects with tech

We are a collective that helps designers impacted by the conflict in Ukraine reach safety and find new work opportunities.

• Ukraine
• Discord

• Socialize online
• Design

CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.

• Ukraine
• human rights

• Fight disinformation

Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden

• culture
• history
• place-based

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

• Artistic interventions
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Research and policy centers
• Social media

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

• trainings

• Engagement tech

EL THINK-AND-DO TANK de la Fundación Salvador Soler

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights

• Digital rights

Solar Ear manufactures low cost, solar rechargeable and environment friendly hearing aids so you can hear perfectly again. Our products are manufactured by deaf workers with high quality components. FIND YOUR HEARING AID

• Deaf

• Hardware

With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Civil society campaign to discuss ethical limits in the use of new technologies for electoral purposes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

A community of experienced Americans determined to change the world for the better.

• seniors

• Campaign organizations

An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.

• gun safety

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

At Agency, we ally with civil society organizations in Africa and Latin America, along with their partners and networks, to advance the resilience and future preparedness of the ecosystem.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.

• Decade-Plus Club

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

• air quality
• apps
• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors