Civic Tech Field Guide

Algo Transparency

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration

This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.

2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

US Election 2020

KlimaDAO

Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.

Climate action

Seminar of digital democracy

Leuven, Belgium

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

Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

The Smart Enough City

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

books
cities

WAYS: What Aren't You Seeing?

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists

Bayes Impact

Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies

Data for Black Lives

United States of America (the)

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

racial equity

Topl

708 Main street, Houston, TX, USA

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

supply chain

Insights

Washington, DC

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

KnockIn

5 Rue de Monbel, 75017 Paris, France

Sarkozy's official app

apps

DATAJUSTICE project

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

criminal justice

Mudamos signature collection app

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

Gravyty First Draft

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda

Oxford, UK

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

Data Scores as Governance

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

Eticas Consulting

Eticas teams up with organizations to identify black box algorithmic vulnerabilities and retrains AI-powered technology with better source data and content.

Center for Countering Digital Hate

London

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

DISCO SOUR

a novel about democracy in the age of algorithms

PredPol

Santa Cruz, CA 95063, USA

PredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.

crime

Copy, Paste, Legislate

Phoenix, AZ, USA

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

ML5js

ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

NYC Automated Decisions Systems Task Force

City Hall, Centre Street, New York, NY, USA

Local Law 49

OpenSCHUFA

Berlin

We crack the SCHUFA

Vote Matrix

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

Mobilisation Lab Keep Campaigning Fresh trends

What are the trends most impacting how campaigns create change in 2018? Bots. Decentralised campaigns. Facebook's ever-changing mood (and algorithm). MobLab and its network look at campaign trends in 2018.

Pondera

80 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USA

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

fraud detection

Racial Literacy in Tech

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

racial equity

My Country Talks

Hamburg

My Country Talks matches political opposites for 1:1 conversations

Streetcaster

285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

Facebook Tracking Exposed

Italy (Italia)

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

Facebook

Orange Telecom Data for Development Challenge

Senegal

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

Autogrid Flex

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.