We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.

• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We aim to reframe the conversation about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism. 

• Academia
• Awards and prizes

• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Polarization

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• Academia
• In-person meetings

Engaging colleges and students in supporting local news

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital security and privacy

Transforming Narratives for Environmental Justice (TNEJ) seeks to advance environmental and climate justice through collaborative storytelling, design, and research.

• Climate action

• Media
• Academic programs
• Narrative tech

Rep lookup tool designed for students and increasing civic literacy

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Courses
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Primer Concurso Nacional de Estudiantes de Derecho

• students

• Legal tech

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• cities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Legal tech

EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims made by politicians and others and rate them.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

ConsiliumBots uses technology and data to help people make important decisions by turning complex and underutilized information into virtual assistance and personalized recommendations across education, housing, and other areas of government programs. Research has shown that providing relevant information at the right time can make a significant difference in students' trajectory by reducing school dropouts and introducing education options with better job prospects. They have so far created 36 digital solutions to address information asymmetries, supporting 3.9 million parents, students, and teachers from over 7 countries in the region. Some of these digital solutions have now been adopted as national public policies.

• Access social benefits
• Behavioral economics programs

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.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academic programs
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

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.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data

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

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• CONSUL

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Courses
• Data science for social good

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy

Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.

• students

• Challenges

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Supporting public sector from outside government

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

All Tech Is Human has developed this free program in order to help build the Responsible Tech pipeline – by facilitating connections and career development among talented students, career changers, and practitioners.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Find a job or hire someone

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

"an investigative toolkit for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

• apps
• students
• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

Otevíráme, vizualizuje a analyzuje parlamentní, volební a rozpočtová data. Díky nám víte, kdo vás doopravdy zastupuje.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic apps outfits

The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.

• Conferences
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors