Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life. 

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

What do your tweets make other people think about your political views? If you are an American Twitter user, log-in to our app below to see how how our model scores your tweets on a continuum from "very liberal" to "very conservative."

• X (Twitter)

• Filter bubble poppers

Real conversations. Real fast.

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

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

The front of each can of Fair Maps IPA shows Wisconsin's state legislative and congressional districts prior to 2011, then the back reveals the drastic change in election maps after the last round of redistricting.

• gerrymandering

• Artistic interventions

eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.

• Surveys & polling
• Communicating with the people

After playing thousands of hours of transportation simulation games, we were left wondering what could happen if some of the traditional limits of the genre didn't exist: in map sizes, track layout complexity, or train scheduling.

• mass transit

• Games and gamification

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

We empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Social impact design firms
• Accelerators

Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Incubators
• Decentralization

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information
• Cameras

The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising

• partisan

• Fundraising tools

A toolkit for communities to listen, tell stories, and imagine better futures together.

• Narrative tech
• Toolkits

We’re power sector experts who gather, curate and analyse data to empower climate campaign organisations. Our data & analysis helps to shape the global narrative on coal.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Civic data

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• cities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector.

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

"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

Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.

• Civic data
• Justice tech
• Open data publishing portals

Participate in the international celebration of GIS technology.

• Mapping
• Holidays

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
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Pol Comm Tech is an academic research group at the University of Ottawa focused on exploring the intersections of politics, communication, and technology.

• Research and policy centers

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.

• cities

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Building inside government

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

• cities

• Accelerators

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Meeting tech

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

• cities

• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

A participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe

• Partner networks and coalitions

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom

• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Books

Archive of New York City directories

• cities
• libraries

• Civic data
• Predecessors

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

A list of github accounts of various news organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Reading lists

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

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

• Social impact design firms
• Design

Connecting organizations with technical challenges to students who have the technical skills to solve them

• students

• Resource matching and sharing

a multi-dimensional digital agency for organizations on a mission

• Social impact design firms

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

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

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.

• Media
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Fundraising tools

A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet

• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth

• Factchecking
• Newsletters

The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.

• News and blogs

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds

• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid