Civic Tech Field Guide
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A comprehensive guide on how government agencies can recruit, hire, onboard, and retain digital talent.
Design With is a free, self-scheduled guide to collaborative design for social change.
The Policing Project
New York City, NY, USAThe adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
ICT Evidence Portal Africa
CanadaResearch ICT Solutions Ltd. is a boutique consultancy based in Canada and South Africa. Started in 2013, we have built a select list of clients who need simple but effective tools to make better decisions. RIS targets the policy and regulatory intersection between policy makers, regulators and the private sector. Our clients range from country regulators, international donor organisations to multi-national companies like Facebook.
#defensiveTO
TorontoDocumenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?
This list of resources is curated and maintained by MERL Tech and The Engine Room.
How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USAA guide to the news company's data usage
Urban Impact Agency
BerlinWe are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.
The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe
Algorithm Tips
Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USAResources and leads for investigating algorithms in society
This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.
ActionBound
Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, GermanyTake people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
A collection of 232 resources for political progressives
California Design System
CaliforniaThe Design System makes it easy for state digital teams to build accessible, consistent, and performant services and products to meet Californians’ needs.
Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.
This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.
Guide to solutions journalism for editors
Solutions journalism case study collection and engagement guide
Solutions Journalism Toolbox – Health Guide
OpenUp Evictions Project
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The Affidavit Assistant helps you collect information for your case
OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)
The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.
Best ways to communicate your data.
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Mountain View, CA, USAMozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies
Principles for Digital Development
United Nations FoundationA set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.
The Privacy Principles for Mobility Data are a set of values and priorities intended to guide the mobility ecosystem in the responsible use of data and the protection of individual privacy.
Toolkit Navigator
EuropeThe Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation, curated by OPSI and our partners around the world
Easily bring people together for important, small-group conversations. Book a live demo!
Monocole 24: The Urbanist
Marylebone, London, UKWith an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.
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.
Beautiful Rising
New York CityA toolkit of social movement resources by and for global changemakers
Wonder.Legal
India (Bhārat)Wonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.
500+ design tools for public good, all in one place.
Le Moteur de visualisation de données ouvertes convertie pour vous les données publiques en formes narratives de visualisation.
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAThe Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.
Cofacts
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAEstablished in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.
Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.
A guide to Colombia's Digital Government initiatives (PDF)
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