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Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechMaking cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.
Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.
Newspeak House Residency
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKAt 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.
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
Sustaining and Scaling Civic and Government Technology
Washington, DCA report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
University of CanberraAcademic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy
Smart Cities Certificate
DenverThe 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.
Maai Makwa (My Water)
KenyaDeploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality
A series of articles interrogating the concept of rigor in the context of impact evaluation in our work, by Keira Lowther
We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights
UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
CardiffAim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.
Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.
Own Your Data Foundation
WyomingWe equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.
All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).
UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.
The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials. This will include pursuing data model recommendations that will demonstrate alignment with the VC model, usage guidelines, and best practices.
We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.
If you are new to low-cost and open hardware and open science, start your exploration with the introduction to low-cost and open source tools toolkit!
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.
School of Geography and Environment, a university department known for its research and teaching in the field of geography and environmental studies, along with its affiliated research centers and networks.
Algorithmic Transparency Institute
Washington, DCThe Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.
SPRIN-D
BerlinThe Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.
Tech Matters
Palo AltoWe help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia
Loconomics
San FranciscoLoconomics Cooperative was an app for booking local services owned by local service professionals.
Platform://Democracy
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyThe project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values. It focuses on the following question: Can "platform councils" or other institutions ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account in the rule-making processes of platforms?
Responsible Computing Challenge
Mountain View, CA, USAThe Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.
A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
Informed Giving = More Effective Relief
Secure the Future of Mobility
deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existing analysis in many common formats.
All Tech Is Human
New York City, NY, USAAll Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.
Democracy Classroom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.
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.
Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.
Beyond Finance
Chicago, ILHelping You Move Beyond Debt
Camino
Oakland, CaliforniaCamino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.
NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure
Democracy Labs
San FranciscoDemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.
eupolicy.social
Europeeupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.
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.
Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012
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