Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits

A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"

• Good health and well-being
• racial equity
• commercial

• Diversity & Inclusion

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• cities
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Urban planning
• Design
• Manifestos

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health.

• mental health
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Online courses

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

Located on the second floor of our headquarters at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., the Workplace Innovation Lab showcases the latest innovations in office design, furniture, and technology to meet the needs of today’s hybrid federal workers.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Remote government

This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.

• Media
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

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

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Public Interest Tech

PolicyLab Africa uses Human centered design to imagine sustainable futures.

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

We provide resources to reimagine project-restricted giving

• Get funding
• Playbooks and design principles
• Foundation initiatives

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Social impact design firms

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Service delivery

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

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

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

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.

• courses

• Media
• Online courses

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

An iconography and lexicon for communicating which technologies are in use in public places

• place-based

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Trustmarks

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

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

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Connectivity

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Justice tech

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech