We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports

• Social media

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups
• Algorithmic transparency

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

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian 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 No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.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

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

USAID report

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Democracy & Freedom Watch is an independent news service reporting on democracy and freedom in the Republic of Georgia. It is published by Journalists for the Future, a non-governmental organization registered in Georgia and supported by Open Society and The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

Parole and probation violations have an outsized effect on state prison populations. The Course Corrections Cost Calculator uses data, soon to be released in our annual Confined and Costly report, to show how simple changes in probation and parole outcomes can impact a state’s prison population and costs.

Philippine Public Transparency Reporting Project

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Journalism Development Network, inc. (JDN) is a Maryland-based 501©3 non-profit journalism organization dedicated to improving investigative reporting and newsroom management around the world.

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

by Silvana Fumega y Fabrizio Scrollini

• reports

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

CGNet Swara is a voice-based portal, freely accessible via mobile phone, that allows anyone to report and listen to stories of local interest

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.

• Voting and elections
• Report cards and audits
• Social media

A report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University

• reports

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Data donations

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Building in the private sector

ArcGIS Field Maps is an all-in-one app that uses data-driven maps to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing, find assets and information, and report their real-time locations.

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing

A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public sphere.

• reports

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Reports

This study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities. This report also provides a high-level estimate of the cost of building a third competitive fiber network in the City, in addition to the residential services of Comcast and Verizon.

• Digital literacy
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

A robust and practical service delivery management platform

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Service delivery

InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

The world’s leading marketplace for social outcomes.

• commercial

• Evaluate impact

Armando.info es una comunidad de periodistas nacida en Venezuela al calor de la crisis y la censura de sus medios. Tiene como objetivo brindar una plataforma independiente, que respalde y acompañe a periodistas venezolanos y latinoamericanos en la reportería de historias trasnacionales, bien narradas y de profundidad, que no tienen cabida en otros sitios.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Non-profit news site serving Kyrgyzstan, including election monitoring

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Coda Story reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are connected and where they are heading next.

• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

WikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy
• Books

A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation

El acceso a los servicios de la información y la comunicación y las personas con discapacidad - Un estudio exploratorio realizado en la región del Cono Sur

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

ImpactBoard is a data management solution (and dashboard) that provides programmes with intelligence to achieve impact.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik

• anti-trafficking

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Securely share information with Africa's finest journalists BLOW THE WHISTLE

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising