CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Community-building resources
• The craft of organizing

A Tableau data visualization and analysis of public transit in NYC

• mass transit

• Civic data
• Data visualization

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

A fun illustrated map charting AI Safety efforts across blogs, podcasts, training, support, governance, research, and so on.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

This update allows you to create professional-grade press releases in a matter of minutes with minimal effort and editing.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people

A special report by Micah Sifry

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Reports

This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Cybersecurity

We regulate financial services firms and financial markets in the UK

• fintech

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• city
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• city
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Media and social media analysis

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• city

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

The Program for Public Consultation was established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations.

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

We are training the next generation of cyber leaders and safeguarding community organizations.

• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Cybersecurity

The OSCE stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. With 57 States from Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization.

• Govtech

NYC's legislative body

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

A global community for cities to learn about generative AI together, faster.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Pulitzer Center: Working with journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of the communities affected by AI technologies, the Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Fellowships

NYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages

• city
• Decent work and economic growth
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The Nordic Smart City Network is a collaboration initiative joining five Nordic countries, and currently 20 Nordic cities with a common goal: to explore the Nordic way to create livable and sustainable cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Smart Cities and sensors

• Reports

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

A prototype project exploring how political parties and organizations could do a better job managing membership

• Advocacy tech
• CRM