Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.

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Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

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Join us weekly for government technology news, trends and interviews. Tune in live each Friday at 12:00 PM PT.

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The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

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At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

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the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

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Data about Africa for Africa

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This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

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• Translation and linguistic representation

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

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An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

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• Urban planning

A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

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A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain

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• Artificial Intelligence

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

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• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

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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.

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The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

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• Digital transformation
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The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

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After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

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• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Access social benefits

Discover social impact jobs supporting the Sustainable Development Goals at mission-driven organizations.

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• Nonprofit tech

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

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We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

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.

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• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic maps

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

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• Research and policy centers

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.

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Informed Giving = More Effective Relief

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• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

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

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Theseus is an enterprise logistics system to track, trace and optimize the global movement of food goods while reducing waste, fostering fair economic opportunities, and directly engaging consumers to learn more about the origins of their food.

• supply chain

• Graveyard
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Media
• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

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The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

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• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Advocacy tech
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• Organize campaigns

Measuring the state of data for the public good

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• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

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• Mastodon

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• Mastodon

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

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The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

Giving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about.

• racial equity

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

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• Nonprofit tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

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• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
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• Civic tech catalogs

DataShare is a podcast series that invites listeners to learn from top experts about government data policies. We will explore the dilemmas and potential solutions to make sure we build a sustainable data infrastructure.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Podcasts