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

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Using the power of satirical AI -generated media to create awareness about the climate emergency.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Martus was a free, open source, secure information collection and management tool that empowers these rights activists to be stronger in their fight against injustice and abuse.

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Digital security and privacy

Knight Foundation is inviting nominations for its inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellowship.

• Fellowships

GISCorps serves our global community by providing mapping expertise where it’s needed most. We match GIS volunteers with organizations in need worldwide.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Community searching for technological solutions to societal challenges.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Each hackathon will challenge young tech developers to identify prototype solutions to challenges in Ethiopia.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Open Data meets Liquid Democracy

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Emerging tech

A new political party for for the UK

• The People
• Manifestos
• Political parties

This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Mapping tools

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

cases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading.

• learning difficulties
• literacy
• blind

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Quality data collection for challenging settings

• commercial

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

netzpolitik.org ist eine Plattform für digitale Freiheitsrechte.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

It is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties, especially those with small teams and limited resources, to get access to cybersecurity services.

• civic features

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Catchafire matches professionally-skilled volunteers with nonprofits and social enterprises. We structure our volunteer opportunities to be short-term, discrete, and individual to cater to the busy lifestyles of high-performing professionals.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The Brigade Network Census is a series of questions that we at Code for America are asking all Brigade volunteers to answer so that we can learn more about who makes up our vast and distributed community

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Civic tech community surveys

[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.

• Decent work and economic growth

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Smarter choices for a better world

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

Connecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support

• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Connectivity

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Drones

Open data meetup

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The stories turn up daily: Social media is being used to undermine democracy. Someone has run off with millions of Social Security numbers stored by a major financial institution. Internet service…

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

• books

• Books
• Connectivity

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We are a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity

Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Personal Democracy Forum CEE is a unique space where the enthusiasm for technology is supported with meaningful debates on its role in the contemporary world.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

We are a home, refuge and resource for people collaboratively shaping a kind, just, inclusive, and prosperous world.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Cloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.

• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Budget explorers

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

HURUmap gives infomediaries like journalists and civic activists an easy ‘plug & play’ toolkit for finding and embedding interactive data visualisations into their storytelling. The project's underlying data is quality-checked, from reputable official sources including the government Census, PEPFAR and Uwezo.

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Filter bubble poppers

TAKING A HEARING ON THE SPOT

• The Tech
• Govtech

Code for Bloomington is an official Code for America Brigade in Bloomington, IN working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups