Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Translation and linguistic representation

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

• Get funding
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.

• Github

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• city

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Теплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital literacy

Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online

• Wordpress

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Ask and answer the questions that matter to you as a public servant. Learn, share and connect.

• Govtech
• Civic forums
• Celebrating public service and public servants

A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
• Build something
• Fieldwide resources

Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Legal tech

A space for policymakers, tech companies and web users to shape a safer, more empowering web.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy

The Guardian Project Podcast

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Podcasts

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Cameras

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

• 2023 Webby Awards
• campaigns
• Asian and Pacific Islander

• Specific campaigns
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

This narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.

• No poverty
• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"

• Good health and well-being
• racial equity
• commercial

• Diversity & Inclusion

A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

• Digital rights

This [2023 Webby Award nominated] app allows current Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area to easily see their assigned routes, view customer stops, and navigate to each customer on the route.

• Zero hunger
• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Resource matching and sharing
• Manage volunteers

Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.

• racial equity
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Regulation

A special feature on cyberbullying by 歪脑 WHYNOT, nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

• anti-harassment
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award

• mental health
• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Data visualization

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health.

• mental health
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Online courses

A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison

• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artistic interventions

Community management platform

• Online forums
• Social networks

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

The Social Network for E-Democracy

• Issue reporting
• Civic forums
• Social networks

DataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

News site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing