This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All. In order to meet that goal, we must examine our Data Dictionaries— the metadata we provide to all Open Data users. Well-written, user-friendly data dictionaries help users to become self-reliant, able to answer their own questions about a dataset without needing to contact an Open Data Coordinator for clarification. NYC Open Data partnered with the Metropolitan Library Council (METRO), Pratt Institute, Sloan Foundation, The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, Tiny Panther Consulting, New York Public Library, Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library to implement an initiative called Metadata for All in the Summer of 2018.

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Find Environmental Impact Assessments Near You. And register for alerts in your area.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Service alerts

Automated monitoring, issue management, analysis and reporting of political affairs.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Data science for social good

Municipal Money is a web-based mobile responsive tool developed to provide the public with municipal financial data.

• Budget explorers

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Organised by PUBLIC and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the European Commission, the GovTech Summit gathers European leaders and innovators to explore how new technologies can improve public services and democratic practices.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Bridge Figures is a human rights organization that scales the potential of artists, activists, journalists & other agents of social change to build bridges and break walls in a data-driven world

• The Tech
• Media
• Narrative tech

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

Who was nominated for the 2018 ranking - and who will you vote for?

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

A 2018 initiative to organize American voters around the midterm elections

• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

VHacks is a hackathon taking place at the Vatican City in Rome on the weekend of March 8-11, 2018. Students from all nationalities and faith-backgrounds are invited for 36 hours of ideation and innovation to address problems in areas of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and migrants & refugees. These 120 students will work in teams…

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Tech Solidarity was a 501(c)4 grass-roots organization with the motto 'technology serves people'. It represents a failed attempt in the period 2016-2018 to organize tech workers around an ethical agenda.

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

See which American political parties, candidates, and ballot initiatives match your beliefs based on the 2018 issues that are most important to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Extensive Tracxn 2018 report on the Govtech startup investment landscape.

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Building in the private sector

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences
• Evaluate impact

Town Hall Project 2018 is a progressive, volunteer-based initiative working to identify and promote upcoming Congressional forums nationwide.

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government

Demo data visualization of an election held with liquid democracy in place

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS. Medical experts and counsellors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018, scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.

• WhatsApp

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

A través de SeamOS, podremos sentar un voto de opinión sobre las propuestas que se presentan en el Concejo de Bogota.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Local Law 49

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

rAInbow is a smart companion for domestic abuse victims, people in difficult or abusive, controlling situations and unhealthy relationships. The chatbot uses artificial intelligence and storytelling (platform provides the users with personalised, immersive stories of characters who may have had similar experiences) to help victims of domestic violence find support through prevention, intervention and access to resources. The platform is hoping to provide South African domestic abuse victims with a safe space to speak out about their situations. Since its launch in November 2018, 300,000 conversations have been started on rAInbow

Represent: Everyday democracy

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

• anti-trafficking

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We crack the SCHUFA

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Check out who is funding Full Circle Fund's 2018 Civic Tech Accelerator Round.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

What are the trends most impacting how campaigns create change in 2018? Bots. Decentralised campaigns. Facebook's ever-changing mood (and algorithm). MobLab and its network look at campaign trends in 2018.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Meet the others

Impact Hub Harare prides itself for being a catalyst of social impact.

• Hubs

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

The 2018 midterm elections are our next chance to get a say in our government. We can stop the Trump agenda by joining together NOW, wherever we live.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

área experimental y creativa del gobierno de la Ciudad de México de 2013 al 2018.

• The People
• Govtech
• Graveyard

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

118 projects to help refugees, curated by betterplace lab

• refugees

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs