Civic Tech Field Guide
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Digital Rights Nepal
NepalDigital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal. It focuses on digital rights issues such as right to online freedom of expression and association, online privacy, access to information, internet governance, cyber laws/policies and cyber securities.
The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.
The Impact Job
United States of America (the)The Impact Job features handpicked social impact jobs across the fields of nonprofits, climate change, and mission-driven businesses.
CampaignTech Awards
United States of America (the)The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.
Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.
Digital Authentication and Identity Proofing in Public Benefits Applications
Georgetown University, Washington, DCCreated and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.
The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.
The Civic AI Observatory
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.
Panoptykon Foundation
Warsaw, PolandThe Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change the world around us and make sure that surveillance is curtailed.
Deceptive Patterns
LondonA taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
Blacks in Civic Tech
United States of America (the)Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.
The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.
The Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
CopenhagenA commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.
Por un Entorno Digital Accesible (PUEDA)
ArgentinaLa iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.
Accessibility Lab (a11y Lab)
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)We are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.
Journal für politische Bildung
Frankfurt am MainPolitische Bildung zu diskutieren und zu stärken sind die Ziele der zentralen Fachzeitschrift Journal für politische Bildung.
Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.
Infrastructure Space
Manchester, United KingdomInfrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union
Washington, DC"Bringing nonprofit professionals together to ensure great nonprofits thrive" - Includes Action Network, Sum of Us, The Movement Cooperative, and other workforces
Indus Action
India (Bhārat)Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.
Data Mapping Cornwall
CornwallData Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.
Ampliando Democracia
Madrid (Spain)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.
Raval data commons
Barcelona, SpainDeveloping a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona
AI Forensics
Italy (Italia)AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.
A series of projects to figure out how major platforms track users, including through data donations
A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023
We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society
EngageMedia Digital Rights program
Thailand (Prathet Thai)We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.
The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.
Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.
The Future of Privacy Forum
Washington, DCFPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.
Rightly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.
Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.
Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them
We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.
A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders
RosKomSvoboda
Russian Federation (the)RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.
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.
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