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We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

We empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators
• Social impact design firms

Archive of New York City directories

• cities
• libraries

• Civic data
• Predecessors

TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers. Last year: 3,640+ graduates report that they learned skills that can help improve their lives 1,150+ children are better able to do schoolwork online because of TGH 2,530+ graduates have used their TGH device and digital skills for their health and wellness Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives.

• Digital literacy

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• Justice tech
• Interactive Voice Response

The e-LIberate / openDCN tool supports synchronous online deliberation with the goal of making decisions. It can be seen as an advanced chat where the times and modes of interaction are governed by Robert’s Rules of Order, a set of meeting rules that were designed to support equitable decision-making. This tool is intended to support groups of people who work together synchronously on specific issues or bound domains. 2003 e-Liberate is an online software application that facilitates online meetings utilizing standardized rules of discourse.

• Meeting tech
• Predecessors

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Research ICT Solutions Ltd. is a boutique consultancy based in Canada and South Africa. Started in 2013, we have built a select list of clients who need simple but effective tools to make better decisions. RIS targets the policy and regulatory intersection between policy makers, regulators and the private sector. Our clients range from country regulators, international donor organisations to multi-national companies like Facebook.

• guides

• Connectivity

The FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Data Nutrition Project aims to create a standard label for interrogating datasets.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data schemas and standards

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Voter assistance tech

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Data schemas and standards

HexaFair, an all-in-one 3D Virtual & Hybrid events platform for Events, Conferences & Summits, Fairs & Exhibitions, Careers & Job Fairs, Trade Shows, Industry Expos & Community Networking Meets

• The Tech
• Organize events

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

análisis de 30 medios de comunicación en España

• Media
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Our platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

E-scooter company

• mobility

• Hardware

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

• Quality education

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence

Mixhubb is a one of its kind virtual event platform that lets you build your event, your way and empowers you to build, create, manage and deliver an immersive 3D experience for your attendees.

• Organize events

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing portals

Standardized data on historical general election polling places in the United States.

• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place
• Open civic data

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities. Its goal is to place the Urban Agenda at the highest level in development policies. It is coordinated by UN-Habitat and driven by a large number of committed partners - currently 136 partners and networks - from around the world.

Le collectif 24 est une plateforme des Organisations de la Société Civile congolaise créé en 2013 principalement en appui au plaidoyer pour la loi d’accès à l’information.

• Freedom of Information

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Open source networks

The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,408 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

We've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Citizen science

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

The firehose of global crisis data

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Govtech
• Bots
• Bureaucracy tech

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Civic features