Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

A blockchain-based platform for decentralized "network states"

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Podcasts
• Civic literacy

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world. Kate Crawford is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Miegunyah distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. She co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University, and leads the Foundations of Machine Learning international working group. She lives in New York City. By Kate Crawford

• Books

A community of organisers across the UK and Ireland supporting each other to fuel the tech for good movement

• Partner networks

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Meeting tech
• Surveys & polling

Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping

• Climate action
• Google

• Civic features

The Four Freedoms Fund is a donor collaborative of NEO Philanthropy. Founded in 2003, the Four Freedoms Fund™ (FFF) works toward full integration of immigrants as active participants in our democracy. Leveraging the resources and insights of its multiple donors, FFF provides an intelligent, nimble vehicle for donors to invest directly in the state and local immigrant rights and grassroots organizations that have become the driving force fuelling culture change and policy reform at all levels of government.

Public Sentiment helps decisionmakers solve local problems using genuine community engagement fueled by local community networks and powerful digital tools

• Digital participation platforms

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that helps build a democracy that works for everyone and fuels progress on critical issues.

• Civic and social impact companies

Since 1989, CSDC has been fueling process performance through purpose-built, automation technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem

• research

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Le Moteur de visualisation de données ouvertes convertie pour vous les données publiques en formes narratives de visualisation.

• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals