The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• cities
• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A mobile app to report sexual harassment. The collected data can be used as evidence to support preventive measures. Last updated Nov 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

1776 is the largest network of incubators that cultivates and empowers startup ecosystems in the Northeast Corridor.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

• The People
• Build something
• Learn about civic tech

Online civic forum

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

We help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.

• resilience

• The People
• Get funding
• Graveyard

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Focuses on the topics of “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”

• Funders & donors

Side by Side is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Solidarity networks

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A nonpartisan group of businesses working together to build a future where everyone participates in shaping our country.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Messaging

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

The largest civic literacy network in Brazil

• students

• Civic literacy

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

Our team makes sure the networks, computers, and systems that support the City are secure and effective. We also manage the City’s websites and technologies focused on service delivery.

• Govtech
• Public sector innovation labs

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.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Open source networks

Accountability Lab is a global translocal network that makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. Our goal is a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives.

a research and teaching cooperative

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks
• Academia

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents. We are the nation’s most comprehensive philanthropic initiative helping local leaders identify and invest in what works. Applications have now closed to be considered as one of our first 100 cities, but check back soon for new opportunities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Code for All’s new program brings people together who work similar civic tech roles, but at different organizations and in different parts of the world.

• Peer networks

NYC Mesh is a physical network of interconnected routers and a group of enthusiasts working to support the expansion of the project as a freely accessible, open, wireless community network.

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively, share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable action on climate change.

New Cities is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to improving life in cities, and is focused on people, places and policies. We bring together a global network of public and private sector leaders and Urban Tech innovators to foster results-oriented collaboration. We also produce actionable research that can be implemented by decision-makers across sectors.

By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Meeting of the Minds is a global thought leadership network and knowledge sharing platform focused on urban sustainability. Meeting of the Minds brings together leaders from multiple sectors and diverse geographies to share ideas and work together to shape a common agenda. Events include monthly webinars, in-person workshops, pop-up events and an annual summit held each fall.

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge. In addition, we aim to use our collective muscle to get better access to markets (for our work), better prices on hardware / software / insurance (through collective bargaining), and share resources (for everything from drones to data-crunching computer servers).

• Drones

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

• LINE

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities. Its goal is to place the Urban Agenda at the highest level in development policies. It is coordinated by UN-Habitat and driven by a large number of committed partners - currently 136 partners and networks - from around the world.

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Investing in education, training and skills development by ensuring that ICT is fully and appropriately integrated into education and training at all levels and also establishing educational networks for sharing educational resources and promoting e-learning at all levels; Building capacity of the youth to fully integrate them into the Country’s technological transformation;

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

• Open source developer networks

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Civic data
• Media
• Advocacy tech

We are a community of integrity professionals—the people who build platforms to be better.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America

• trainings

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Digital literacy

The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses

The Open Datat Institute's art programme

• Artistic interventions

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Govtech
• Bots
• Surveys & polling

Was a neighborhood-based social network platform

• Graveyard
• Neighborhood forums

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Incubators

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks and coalitions