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

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.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data science for social good

Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.

• Govtech
• Emergency services
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Trustmarks

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Media
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Helping You Move Beyond Debt

• Decent work and economic growth

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good

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

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

Code for BTV is an organization based in Vermont that works on projects to address technology problems for social and civic justice organizations.

• Meet the others
• Civic apps outfits

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech
• Organize events

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report
• Reports

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

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.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Behavioral economics programs
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Otevíráme, vizualizuje a analyzuje parlamentní, volební a rozpočtová data. Díky nám víte, kdo vás doopravdy zastupuje.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.

The Center for Cultural Power is a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature.

• culture

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• cities

Search, visualize, and review your documents. Up to hundreds of thousands of them, in any format.

Qëllimi i këtij projekti është të mbledhim dhe të ruajmë të dhëna mbi indikatorët ekonomiko-shoqëror në Shqipëri.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open government data

Inštitút pre verejné otázky (IVO) je nezávislou mimovládnou neziskovou organizáciou združujúcou odborníkov z rôznych oblastí, vytvorenou so zámerom presadzovať hodnoty otvorenej spoločnosti a demokratickej politickej kultúry vo verejnej politike a spoločenskom rozhodovaní.