BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Big listening

Ahbap crowdfunding page with over 57,000 donations

• earthquakes

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Narwhal is a discussion community for curious people of any viewpoint

• Online forums
• Civic forums
• Social networks

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Media and social media analysis

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Research and policy centers

A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures

• Build something

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Research and policy centers

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps
• Civic tech catalogs

The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Social media

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.

• Quality education

• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields

A project map of Public Interest AI and related research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Public Interest Tech

Our Slack workspace helps individuals in the Responsible Tech ecosystem connect with one another, discuss research, share events, learn about careers and job opportunities, and more. In addition, we have channels for specific locations to allow for people to collaborate based on vicinity.

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Meet the others

Open source identity solution. "Our vision is that every person on the planet is recognised, protected and provided for from birth"

• Govtech
• Identity

Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.

• Govtech
• Emergency services
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Realtime data. Unified Public Safety workflow. Reduced emergency response times.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Emergency services

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields

The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.

• Civic data
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Mapping tools

GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Archives

Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way

• Climate action

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Economic development
• Upskilling

An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Civic tech catalogs

Secure the Future of Mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Informed Giving = More Effective Relief

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

Software and solutions for community resilience.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy

A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice

• courses

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Online courses

deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existing analysis in many common formats.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Data science for social good

All Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Adjacent Fields

Prototype - Enter a URL to detect fake news websites at scale.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

GDDF 2023 builds on three years of successful global virtual forums that engage over 3,000 participants each time and feature keynote speakers from USAID, tech companies, and across the digital development ecosystem.

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Archives
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Representative for Massachusetts Jake Auchincloss used ChatGPT to help introduce legislation supporting AI research

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Get funding
• Emerging tech
• Foundation initiatives

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

GDS service for government users to notify constituents

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

A tech-centric portal for US government jobs

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

We use emerging technologies - like blockchain, IoT devices and sensors, and artificial intelligence - to address some of the world’s most pressing issues, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Partnerships for the Goals
• Sustainable Development Goals

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

• Good health and well-being
• MOOCs

• Digital transformation
• Open knowledge

Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Decentralization