Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

• apps
• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Now GovEx

• research
• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Congressional Research Service Reports for the People

• Watchdogging and transparency

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

As the Confederation turns 150, Connected Canada will examine what it means to be a digital citizen in Canada today. Together, participants will draft a public research agenda for digital citizenship that will set the foundation for strong institutions and good policy. Join us October 13-14, 2017 in Ottawa as we consider the impacts of the Internet on Canadian institutions, policies, and people.

• Conferences

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech