AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Media and social media analysis

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Digital transformation
• Economic development

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

Whether it’s hate speech in our social media or bringing together diverse groups for online training, digital tools can harm and help our peacebuilding initiatives.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Civic tech catalogs

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

A free downloadable resource from Digital Charity Lab and ODV Digital, to help you ensure that your organisation doesn’t get locked out of its social media or other digital accounts.

• Nonprofit tech
• Social media

Digital Benin brings together all objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century.

• culture
• decolonization

Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Эксперты проекта Digital Rating исследовали политики и практики популярных веб-сервисов Рунета по раскрытию данных взаимодействия с госорганами, а также соблюдения прав граждан на свободу информации и приватность.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A Digital Servant's Guide to U.S. Federal Information Technology Law and Policy

• Govtech
• Building inside government
• Bureaucracy tech

This board contains various digital government roles from across the US and Canada public sectors, the different organizations that may be looking for talent, and resources to help you on your journey.

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

Digital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal. It focuses on digital rights issues such as right to online freedom of expression and association, online privacy, access to information, internet governance, cyber laws/policies and cyber securities.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to public benefits and services.

• Access social benefits

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.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Its over-arching goal is to reinforce trust in public institutions and to unleash multiple measurable positive impacts in terms of efficiency gains and reduction of current administrative burden and costs, rooted on a Toolkit for extended semantic interoperability and on secure, privacy-preserving and trustworthy realisation of fundamental once-only, relevant-only and digital by default principles, through state-of-the-art, usable and high-quality fully online procedures accessible through the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

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.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

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.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

2021 book edited by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

• books

• Books
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

The Digital Rights Job Board features diverse opportunities from organizations, grassroots networks, companies and other types of entities from 130+ countries working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and social justice

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone
• Digital rights

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

An iconography and lexicon for communicating which technologies are in use in public places

• place-based

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Trustmarks

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Honor your loved ones with a digital Día de Muertos altar by the Los Angeles Times

• Media
• Participatory memorials
• Engagement journalism

Digital Vereint is a platform that aims to support civil society organisations and their digital work.

Our name, Digital Public Square, embodies our shared vision to create the vibrant, healthy, community spaces we all urgently need.

Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Digital Freedom Fund supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Digital rights

Berkman Klein center research effort: GLOBAL COHORT OF EARLY-CAREER SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS EXPLORES THE ETHICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS OF DIGITAL IDENTITY IN TIMES OF CRISIS

• Identity