In a new series of blogs, Richard Pope looks at concrete examples of digital transparency, accountability and recourse from around the world.

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Identity

This guidebook helps people design and run projects that involve the collaborative maintenance of data

• guides

• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles
• Data governance

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Report a dark pattern today. It will help us fight back against companies usingmanipulative dark patterns to take our private information, money, andtime. You deserve respect, online and off.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

Nym protects communication patterns, IP addresses and metadata for end-users, enterprise and infrastructure operators

• Digital security and privacy

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Build something

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

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

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

• human rights
• anti-trafficking

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

EU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Liberating Voices pattern language is intended to help us develop the social imagination we need to better face the future as engaged and empowered citizens. Browse the patterns in the book or see all of the patterns in the pool environment.

• Fieldwide resources

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• Mapping
• Books

A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance

• Books

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

location analytics: pinpointing the vital information, connections and patterns you need to make better, more insightful decisions

• Graveyard
• Mapping tools

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.

• civic features
• suicide prevention
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

In a cross-sector partnership led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, The Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano (Colombian Climate and Agricultural Sector; CSAC) provides meteorological data to farmers along with data on the economics and agronomy of rice cultivation.

• agriculture
• Climate action
• Zero hunger

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

Leverage Media Cloud to help Global Voices see patterns in the framing and agenda setting functions of the news.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data