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Infrastructure Space
Manchester, United KingdomInfrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.
Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.
OpenNorth's Data Quality course
Montreal, QC, CanadaThis course provides users with a practical introduction to the topic and importance of data quality. It discusses key concepts and offers clear exercises on accessing good data and evaluating the quality of data. Available in English and French.
Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI.
A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered
A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.
RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.
Long Beach Co-Lab
Long Beach, CAThe LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.
A Snapshot Of Artificial Intelligence Procurement Challenges
GovLab New York UniversityDiagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government
Diia Digital country
UkraineUkrainian digital government app
Democracy Beyond Elections
United States of America (the)A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.
The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.
Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.
Multitudes Foundation
EuropeWe identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.
Raval data commons
Barcelona, SpainDeveloping a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.
Urban Ocean Lab
San FranciscoUrban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.
MyCandidate Nigeria
South AfricaThe MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
Video For Change
ThailandWe help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.
A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment
Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.
Stop Your Government
LjubljanaThe interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.
Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.
Exygy
San FranciscoWe partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance
New York CityThe Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.
The Centre for Civic Innovation
Sydney NSW, AustraliaWhat would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.
Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award
18F, Technology Transformation ServicesTTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.
This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
IDinsight
AfricaIDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.
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El Avispero
BogotáWe are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.
The Future of Privacy Forum
Washington, DCFPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.
Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work. Hope-based communications acts on the principle that we should be focused on building the world we want, setting the agenda with our values, our goals, our mission.
Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally
JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.
Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.
Israel Tech Policy Institute
Tel Aviv, IsraelTech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
CivicDataLab
IndiaWe work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
Justice Hub
BangaloreAn open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.
Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy
San FranciscoOur new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.
Niji eco-design site concept
FranceUsers choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint
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