In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech

2022 book by Dan Bouk

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits

A space for policymakers, tech companies and web users to shape a safer, more empowering web.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Roundtables

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Governments Post Bids, Businesses Get Notified, eBidding Makes It Easy

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Bonfire provides software that helps procurement teams and stakeholders come together to make smarter buying decisions, easily and with certainty.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Procurement

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

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.

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

This library of final reports from grant funded projects in the deep tech and research space is a great place to find relevant information without having to write it all yourself!

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We aggregate the best evidence, analysis and expert opinions to help you make informed career decisions that maximize your impact

• Find a job or hire someone
• Effective altruism

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Public Interest Tech

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Degree programs

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

• Academia
• Communicating with the people
• Peer-reviewed research

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

• Preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people

We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Since 1968, our nonpartisan insight and analysis has helped power the decisions of policymakers, civic leaders, and the general public across a wide spectrum of beliefs and backgrounds.

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Real-time flood sensors were developed by the FloodSense project at NYU and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), with a goal of providing information on the presence, frequency, and depth of hyperlocal street-level flood events to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, government agencies, citizens, emergency response teams, community advocacy groups, and researchers.

• floods

• Civic maps

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.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Co-design

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Manage volunteers
• Resource matching and sharing

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.

We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers
• Organize campaigns

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

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.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Camino 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.

• racial equity

• Media
• Games and gamification

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges