Civic Tech Field Guide
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Peoples' Tech Assemblies
New York CityNYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech
Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.
Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.
Social-Digital Innovation
BerlinThe Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.
The Black to the Future Public Policy Institute is a policy advocacy and leadership training fellowship that provides the tools needed to transform Black communities into constituencies that wield independent, Black political power at the municipal, state, and federal level.
Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.
SAFELAB
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, USAThe SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Digital Health Lab
San FranciscoAt Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.
Data for Black Lives
United States of America (the)Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.
Decolonize This Place
New York CityDecolonize This Place is an action-oriented movement centering around Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.
Data for Black Lives conference
MIT Media LabDecember 11-13 2020
The San Diego Foundation is a community resource that improves San Diegans’ quality of life by creating equity and ensuring opportunities in the region.
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum
Digital Undivided
50 Hurt Plaza Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30303, USABLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE
Blokable
Southeast Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA, USAWe partner with market rate and not for profit land developers and service providers to make housing happen. Building at lower cost, higher quality, and in less time, we create real estate equity.
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity
A data collaborative company. Using open source tech & data trusts to enhance impact, inform decisions, & increase equity of opportunity.
Congress on New Urbanism
Congress For the New Urbanism, 1720 N Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAThe premiere national event on building better places
Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform
Civic Innovation Challenge Ideas Competition
Washington, DCThe Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.
Measures for Justice
421 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14607, USAMeasures for Justice is on a mission to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform.
Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.
Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.
The Police Data Initiative promotes the use of open data to encourage joint problem solving, innovation, enhanced understanding, and accountability between communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them.
Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond
Reboot
49 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USAReboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.
LaunchGood
Detroit, MICrowdfunding Incredible Muslims
We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
Effective cloud communications tools are the key to reaching and engaging citizens - all while enhancing transparency and building trust.
A free campaign for youth funded by Colin @kaepernick7 to raise awareness on self-empowerment 💪🏿 and interacting with law enforcement 🚔
Streetcaster
285 Washington St, Somerville, Massachusetts, USASupernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.
Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.
Gain access to the top equity crowdfunding deals on Crowdfunder. Find deals to invest in and get direct access to CEO's.
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UKMeasuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)
Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.
A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.
Search racism find truth
BerlinA Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice
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