The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Roundtables

In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Books

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people

Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Service delivery

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Pro bono and volunteer

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• cities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Big listening

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

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Research and policy centers

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Economic development
• Upskilling

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

Our mission is to accelerate deep ocean exploration by developing accessible systems to broaden the community of those who explore and understand the deep sea.

• Life below water
• sustainability

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

The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open government data

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Community Lattice is a social enterprise that helps communities understand and optimize land revitalization programs, like EPA Brownfields, as a pathway to environmental and climate justice.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• cities

Viewfinder is an accountability journalism project in South Africa. Viewfinder conduct long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.

• Investigative journalism tech

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• cities

• Govtech
• Working groups
• Data governance

The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

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

The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks
• Academia

This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

Nft-gated directory of low cost resources

• Access social benefits
• Blockchain
• Emerging Tech Projects

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

Last year we piloted an initiative called Community Connections at the Responsible Data mailing list, where we connected two or more members of the community based on their shared interests in responsible data(RD)-related topics, allowing them to chat about topics and projects related to responsible data.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Foundation initiatives

Leveraging digital data in ways that advance your mission and respect the rights of the people you serve is a core capacity of foundations and nonprofits in the 21st century. That’s why the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society created the Digital Impact Toolkit—to support civil society organizations in using digital data ethically, safely, and effectively.

• Nonprofit tech
• Digital transformation
• Toolkits

Sinar Project is a civic tech initiative using open technology, open data and policy analysis to systematically make important information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people. It aims to improve governance and encourage greater citizen involvement in the public affairs of the nation by making Parliament and Malaysian Government more open, transparent and accountable.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

This interactive dashboard displays the themes in fact-checking articles we scraped from IFCN-certified websites in the selected week.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data visualization

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• videos
• YouTube

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

The Disinformation Action Lab (DAL) at Data & Society forges new approaches to address the complex dynamics underpinning the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Last publication December 2020.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy