"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."
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OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.
Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.
"a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues."
Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."
This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.
Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.
Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.
Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.
Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.
The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.
A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.
ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.
"Easy-to-Read is an essential alternative format that simplifies any type of information for people with intellectual disabilities, seniors with dementia, and others experiencing difficulties in comprehending text. Promoted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security and Labour, the service seeks to ensure that all residents get equal access to crucial information."
Parsons, named after Lucy Parsons, is a Python package that contains a growing list of connectors and integrations to move data between various tools. Parsons is focused on integrations and connectors for tools utilized by the progressive community.
Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.
The goal of the project is to publish standardized financial detail data of municipalities, provinces, ministries and other governing bodies on the central platform openspending.nl.
"Bringing nonprofit professionals together to ensure great nonprofits thrive" - Includes Action Network, Sum of Us, The Movement Cooperative, and other workforces
Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.
Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.
DDP is an open-source data pipeline platform to tackle data ingestion, storage and transformation that can be used by NGOs to drive actionable insights
ProgressiveActs is a start-up that supports grassroots civic and political mobilization through a package of services and advanced technological tools.
This course provides users with a practical introduction to the topic and importance of data quality. It discusses key concepts and offers clear exercises on accessing good data and evaluating the quality of data. Available in English and French.
Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.