Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

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

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Procurement

Foundation for Public Code's livestream show and podcast

• Podcasts
• Shows and films

Higher education must give the next generation of technology and policy leaders the interdisciplinary training they need to succeed, write Anne-Marie Slaughter, Darren Walker and Larry Kramer.

• Quality education

• Public Interest Tech

The Anti-Corruption Data Collective brings together leading journalists, data analysts, academics and policy advocates to expose transnational corruption flows and push for policy change using the advocacy reach of ACDC partners. The Collective draws from experts and participating organizations with on-the-ground networks of local non-profit partners and journalists in more than 100 countries around the world. We leverage both data and expertise to target specific vehicles for hiding and laundering ill-gotten gains. Our specific aim in 2021 is to expose wrongdoing and risk areas in the real estate and private investment industries within target jurisdictions. Our investigations can then be used as a platform for advocating for relevant changes in law and practice by our advocacy partners.

The Four Freedoms Fund is a donor collaborative of NEO Philanthropy. Founded in 2003, the Four Freedoms Fund™ (FFF) works toward full integration of immigrants as active participants in our democracy. Leveraging the resources and insights of its multiple donors, FFF provides an intelligent, nimble vehicle for donors to invest directly in the state and local immigrant rights and grassroots organizations that have become the driving force fuelling culture change and policy reform at all levels of government.

Our independent, non-profit organization provides policy advice and advocacy infused with lessons learned in the field and with insights developed through rigorous research. We share our knowledge and experience freely with policy-makers, accountability actors, and the global campaign for improved international norms. We are particularly well-placed to convene reform-oriented dialogue and to engage in constructive policy advocacy.

The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy.

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.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world. But for all the benefits, technological developments have created new threats to our human rights. ORG exists to raise awareness of these threats and challenge them through public campaigns, media commentary, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects.

Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to promote democracy and sustainable economic development.

InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy. Its goal is to conduct interdisciplinary impactful research and promote dialogue among academics, professionals and policymakers. They follow an entrepreneurial nonprofit model, which embraces a pursuit of producing scholarly research in the manner and spirit of an academic think tank. As a nexus of expertise in technology, public policy and social sciences, the research agenda covers a wide range of topics, including privacy, freedom of speech, gender and technology.

Lateral Economics do things differently so that their clients reap the rewards. Policy consultants and lobbyists who simply advocate their clients’ interests achieve limited results. Influencing policy outcomes requires more than advocacy. It requires an understanding of how a complex jigsaw of interests and ideas fit together. The key is understanding the goals of a business or government agency, understanding the principal drivers of policy and the public interest, and finding new ways to fit them together.

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The CSAP uses interactive radio shows (radio dialogues in combination with SMS feedback) to enable citizens to hold their leaders to account by asking the hard questions. By enabling citizens to text their views to a free short code, the approach allows for large-scale consultations and provides evidence of citizen’s opinions. AVF analyses these views using rigorous social science research and presents them in a form that supports policy action by authorities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks

Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Taskforce is a volunteer group working at the intersection of technology and politics.

• Organize campaigns

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Indicators

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Urban planning

As the Confederation turns 150, Connected Canada will examine what it means to be a digital citizen in Canada today. Together, participants will draft a public research agenda for digital citizenship that will set the foundation for strong institutions and good policy. Join us October 13-14, 2017 in Ottawa as we consider the impacts of the Internet on Canadian institutions, policies, and people.

• Conferences

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

This portal makes available data on the City of Cape Town to increase transparency in its processes and actively involve residents and other stakeholders in local government, as well as promote economic opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Now GovEx

• research
• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has been […]

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

A fast way to get digitally safe & secure.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

18 - 20 November 2019 in Rotterdam

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

To field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Readie was a European digital policy centre that promoted digital policies that benefit society and drive economic growth.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Kremlin Watch is a strategic program of the European Values Center for Security Policy which aims to expose and confront instruments of Russian influence and disinformation operations focused against Western democracies.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Building 21st Century Government with Technology Talent

• The People
• Fellowships
• Building inside government