An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• Emerging Tech report

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

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools

Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life. 

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.

• Find a job or hire someone

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.

• 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

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

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.

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging tech

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• Hubs

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• peace

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Data science for social good

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

• human rights
• trainings

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Our pro bono teams of data scientists and engineers harness the power of data and technology to help nonprofits, government agencies, and academic institutions have greater impact on the communities they serve

• Civic data
• Pro bono and volunteer