Alidade is an interactive tool that explains to social organisations what to look for when using technology for social change project, Alidade asks the user questions that can help them decide what kind of technology tool would fit with their project

Postcodes

"According to a release from the lawmakers, the legislation would “create a pathway for independent evaluators, with a function similar to those in the financial industry and other sectors, to work with companies as a neutral third-party to verify their development, testing, and use of AI is in compliance with established guardrails.”"

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• United Nations

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Un consorcio de organizaciones de la sociedad civil conformado por Asuntos del Sur, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, Extituto de Política Abierta e Instituto Pro Comum quienes tienen como misión conjunta impulsar formas innovadoras de gobernanza y acción colectiva en Ciudades del Sur Global.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Manage volunteers

¡Atención, comunidad! 🎉 El Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI) celebra su 8º Aniversario y quiere festejarlo impulsando tus ideas. Por ello, lanza su Convocatoria Anual de Fondos para Eventos Comunitarios. Si tienes un proyecto para organizar una charla, un taller, un festival de cine o cualquier evento gratuito que beneficie a tu comunidad, ¡esta es tu oportunidad! La organización ofrece financiamiento de hasta 300$ y su asesoría para hacerlo realidad.

• Get funding

A machine learning model trains on geo-located survey data to predict state presence.

• surveillance

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

govset is a modern schema specification for standardizing government records and public sector data

Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores y problemas estratégicos de la realidad nacional, definen e inciden, a partir de su trabajo en red, en la evaluación y formulación de políticas públicas».

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Civil society research outfits

Caddy is an AI powered co-pilot for customer service functions everywhere.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open source AI

A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.

• Climate action
• buildings
• Google

• Civic data
• Environmental data

The NABIT (Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool) is a low-cost, hand-held, field-ready automated tool to validate the identity of a wildlife or food product, anywhere in the world, without specialized training, equipment, reagents, or even continuous power.

• animals

• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Cali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Editorial El Tiempo, la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá y la Fundación Corona.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Incrições abertas em 08/08 - É um programa de Educação Cidadã que se baseia nos princípios de governo aberto: transparência, prestação de contas, participação cívica, tecnologia e inovação. O objetivo do programa é promover a educação cívica e estimular a sociedade civil a participar ativamente nas políticas do Estado, reconhecendo-se como agente de transformação em sua realidade local.

• students
• Quality education
• Brazil (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification

Pidela.info es una aplicación web que hace dos cosas: (i) permite a cualquier persona enviar una Solicitud de Acceso a la Información Pública legalmente válida a través de Internet; y, (ii) archiva y hace disponible a terceros las solicitudes y respuestas recibidas anteriormente.

• Freedom of Information

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nosotras.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.

• Engagement tech
• Bots

Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Digital Europe for All (DE4A) effectively puts forward a new Member State-driven large-scale pilot aimed at compliance with Single Digital Gateway and aligned with EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, Tallinn Declaration and EIF Implementation Strategy.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Communicating with the government

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap
• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

Se trata del primer y más ambicioso proyecto periodístico colaborativo del país, del que participan los medios principales de toda la Argentina (de gráfica, digitales, radio y TV) y cuya finalidad es luchar contra la desinformación durante las campañas electorales.

• Media
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Newsroom partnership networks

The Certified Content Coalition certified trustworthy publishers that meet fundamental standards, giving consumers confidence in journalistic content.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

Inactive project: "InVID will build a platform providing services to detect, authenticate and check the reliability and accuracy of newsworthy video files and video content spread via social media."

• Media
• Fight disinformation

"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Indicators

Una guía para ayudarte a dar esos primeros pasos. Con un poco de dedicación y esfuerzo, no tendrás nada que envidiarle a los podcast que te inspiraron, al menos no en términos de calidad de sonido.

• resources
• guides

• Podcasts

Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño del Tecnológico de Monterrey; es un espacio queofrece información actual y útil que permite el análisis, medición yevaluación de las ciudades mexicanas, para incidir en la planeación y latoma de decisiones que contribuirán a mejorar la calidad de vida urbana delas personas.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Indicators

AbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

En Ollin trabajamos por un México en donde impere el estado de derecho, a través de fortalecimiento de nuestras instituciones democráticas y ciudadanos capaces de transformar su realidad.

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

El Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos es una herramienta que permite acceder a datos abiertos de organismos públicos, academia, organizaciones de sociedad civil y empresas privadas.

• Open data publishing portals

“Durante o Seminário, vários de nós voltamos a nos perguntar por que não temos ainda no Brasil uma instituição formada e mantida por jornalistas, independente, voltada para a troca de informações entre nós, para a formação profissional, para o aprofundamento dos conhecimentos e uso de ferramentas na área do jornalismo investigativo, para a formação de uma literatura e bancos de dados, para a promoção de seminários, congressos e oficinas de aperfeiçoamento profissional

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity