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• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world

• Climate action

• Civic tech catalogs

UNI Global Union's Top Ten Principles for Workers' Data Rights fills an enormous gap with regards workers' rights in the new world of work.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We work with state and local governments to help with prototyping and procurement for federally-funded digital public services, using agile acquisition consulting services.

• local
• state

• Govtech

We partner with agencies to enable human-centered, digitally-assisted public benefits programs.

• Access social benefits

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic tech

Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

1776, and partner host Revolution, will be hosting the annual Challenge Cup competition, click here to learn more!

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

1776 is the largest network of incubators that cultivates and empowers startup ecosystems in the Northeast Corridor.

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

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

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

Modular Contracting and Agile Development in government.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Co-working Space, Events, Education, Programming, Incubators, Accelerators and a community of Entrepreneurs focusing on Innovation.

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

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

We help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.

• resilience

• The People
• Meet the others
• Get funding

Empowering you to find what you need from over 26,000 free, up-to-date resources

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

As an office within the General Services Administration, we know how to work with government. Partner with 18F to deliver projects that fulfill federal rules, stay within budget, and provide excellent value to the public.

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Digital transformation

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Online platform for civic participation

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

We are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

• Fight disinformation
• Awards and prizes

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Procurement

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping
• Civic maps

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

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

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

• human rights

• Digital rights

A research paper

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Games and gamification

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.

• Voting and elections
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

To combat what the World Health Organization has called an "infodemic" around Covid-19, BBC News Africa has launched a searchable library of fact-checks debunking popular myths and misinformation about coronavirus in Africa.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Community Based Alternatives to the Police Not911 is designed to direct you to New York City-based organizations that offer counseling, mediation and intervention services.

• apps

• Access social benefits
• Justice tech

This class uses the idea of values-driven design to help creators consider the politics of the technologies we use and which we bring into the world and teaches methods of research, design and deployment intended to help technologies meet the needs of real-world communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Courses

Congress.gov is now OCRing the official Statutes at Large compilation, covering Congress's Generation X era of 1973-1994.

• guides

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

OpenCovid19 is a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• COVID Engagement Projects

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• cities
• racial equity

• Media

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships