A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

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Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

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• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

Find your next full-time job or short-term opportunity at a nonprofit or other organization using technology for social change.

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Not-For-Profit & Community Jobs around Australia

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We connect volunteer programmers with charities for specific, goal-oriented projects.

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An aggregated list of social sector job opportunities and original postings covering unique opportunities in the NGO / Government and CSR space

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We aggregate the best evidence, analysis and expert opinions to help you make informed career decisions that maximize your impact

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• Effective altruism

Join us to build a better Singapore

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We curate the best technology roles in impact-led organisations across Europe.

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As a job board that champions business ethics you can be sure that our clients will use your technical skills for good.

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Find the best jobs in sustainability, social impact and more

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In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.

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Facebook Group with over 6,000 members

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Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.

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Join an expert-led community of 500k purpose-driven escapees and progressive employers. Events, courses and resources to help you find your next exciting opportunity.

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The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

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• Funders & donors

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

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The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Data about Africa for Africa

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GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• Manage volunteers
• COVID Engagement Projects

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

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• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

Salesforce.org's own volunteer management app for the platform.

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At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

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• Fellowships

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

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• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

Salesforce.org provides powerful CRM technology for a global community of nonprofits and educational institutions to help them operate effectively, raise funds, and build more meaningful relationships with those they serve.

• CRM
• Civic teams at tech companies

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

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• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• State and regional government technology

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

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• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

Budget explorer for the Municipality of Zugló's 2019 budget built by K-Monitor

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• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

A guide to comparing data

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• People Powered

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

A startup — and community — building trustworthy and open-source AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

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• The People
• Build something

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Dissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.

• Artistic interventions

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

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• earthquakes

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Manage volunteers

A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

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• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Building a movement to get more feet on the street™

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• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain

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• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
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Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Citizen Engagement

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Academia
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

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• X (Twitter)

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• Peer-reviewed research

Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.

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• Accelerators
• Incubators

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact.

• Academia
• Data science for social good
• Academic programs