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.

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• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors

The Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

Our intention with the protest tracker was to map public discourse around GotaGoHome protests and it's spread around Sri Lanka.

• Civic maps

The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

• students

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

This project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.

• free speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic literacy

"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

A statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.

• Quality education

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

The Digital Due Process Clinic provides high-quality, pro bono services to those affected by these systems.

• Legal tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital transformation

Connecting organizations with technical challenges to students who have the technical skills to solve them

• students

• Resource matching and sharing

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses
• Academia

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

PIT Commons of DC is a multidisciplinary collaboration of DC institutions providing open access PIT career development resources to DC prof/grad students.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.

• Civic literacy

MisinfoDay is an annual event co-hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.

• Fight disinformation
• Holidays

This Cornell University fund supports students who are participating in any type of community-based research activities or community-engaged learning projects

• students

• COVID Engagement Projects

This class uses the idea of values-driven design to help creators consider the politics of the technologies we use and which we bring into the world and teaches methods of research, design and deployment intended to help technologies meet the needs of real-world communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Courses

The XR Collaboratory (XRC) at Cornell Tech works with faculty, researchers and students from computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction, as well as practitioners in application areas such as healthcare, education, and architecture.

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.

• resources
• curricula

• Govtech
• Courses

In the winter of 2020-2021 Center for Urban Pedagogy collaborated with eight Teaching Artists to create civically-engaged art activities to do at home!

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

• Quality education

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The largest civic literacy network in Brazil

• students

• Civic literacy

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Citizen Engagement

PITcases.org is a university platform to help students and faculty find the best ways to make a positive difference in their communities. The website gives detailed information about projects that have come out of PIT classes, as well as reading lists for those interested in teaching such courses.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Public Interest Tech

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

aula is a completely new way of thinking about what participation means, offering young people the chance to play an active part in shaping the world around them. Our online platform and learning resources (click here) promote a better understanding of democracy and develop the skills needed to participate in it.

• students

• Graveyard
• Civic literacy

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

All the Citizens is a non-profit organisation registered as a UK limited company. Most of its initial work has been undertaken by individuals volunteering skills and expertise. It is currently currently made up of around 80 volunteers: journalists, filmmakers, advertising creatives, data scientists, artists, students, lawyers and many more.

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

CIVIX is a non-partisan, national registered charity dedicated to building the skills and habits of active and engaged citizenship among young Canadians. The vision is a strong and inclusive democracy where all young people are ready, willing and able to participate. CIVIX was born through a merger between Operation Dialogue and Student Vote – two non-partisan organizations with a significant history of engaging Canadian youth.

• Civic literacy

The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology.

• Conferences
• Find a job or hire someone

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms