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netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which follows a novel transdisciplinary methodology on treating network infrastructure as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, self-determination, and social integration.

• research

• Connectivity
• Community wifi
• Decentralization

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

A media and research project to advance the tech workers movement.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Solidarity networks

A guide on how to manage technical debt in government software development projects.

• resources
• guides

• Govtech

openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project is a groundbreaking, global, feminist investigative journalism initiative dedicated to exposing and challenging organised threats to women’s and LGBTIQ rights.

• LGBTQI
• women

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

What if we could use rules, tests, and parameters to isolate hate speech? Can we identify and analyze elements like speaker intent, context, identity, tone, audience, or any number of indicators that transform words into meanings and change an innocuous statement into a verbal assault? Combating the proliferation of online hate speech and understanding its mechanics is a complex undertaking. We believe, however, that it can be done. And one way we are working to do so is by teaching machines to recognize hate.

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Media and social media analysis

A project tracking the many attempts to modify the Chilean constitution

• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Constitutions

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

Resources for building open organizations The Open Organization is a community-driven project leading a global conversation about the ways open principles change how people work, manage, and lead. Our community members generate knowledge and share strategies for building organizational cultures on principles like transparency, adaptability, collaboration, inclusivity, and community.

• Adjacent Fields

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work. Hopefully, projects and contributors will find this helpful in figuring out the best options for them.

• guides

• Get funding

This project attempts to document all collective action from workers in the tech industry. Contribute to our archive. Currently, there are 506 collective actions documented.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

A project to measure and show bus performance in NYC

• mobility
• mass transit

• Dashboards

The IT University of Copenhagen and the Danish Agency of Digitisation have established a Research Centre for Government IT. The purpose of the centre is to contribute to research-based knowledge and competence development regarding government IT projects, including operation and maintenance of IT systems.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

• land
• cities

• Graveyard
• Specific campaigns

This Cornell University fund supports students who are participating in any type of community-based research activities or community-engaged learning projects

• students

• COVID Engagement Projects

This class uses the idea of values-driven design to help creators consider the politics of the technologies we use and which we bring into the world and teaches methods of research, design and deployment intended to help technologies meet the needs of real-world communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Courses

Discontinued crowd-funded journalism project

• Media

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

• Engagement tech
• Ideation
• Issue reporting

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Bots

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

• Challenges
• Public project trackers

A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19

• cities

• COVID Government Projects
• Partner networks
• Challenges

Mozilla Rally is aimed at rebuilding your equity in your data. We allow you to choose how to contribute your data and for what purpose.

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Crowdsourcing

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use. AoT uses an open intelligent sensing and edge computing platform called Waggle, developed at Argonne National Laboratory. AoT was funded primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment. Town+Gown is also an open platform research program that uses service (experiential) learning and faculty-directed research to facilitate partnerships between academics and practitioners on applied built environment research projects through the collaborative inquiry model of systemic action research.  

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

Solve for Good is the Data Science for Social Good Foundation's platform for social good organizations to post data projects they need help with, for volunteers to help scope those projects into well-defined problems, and to help solve those problems.

• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined. We take a critical look at massive data collection, privacy and surveillance | social movements, activism and internet activism | internet infrastructure, cybersecurity and their governance | open data and civic tech networks.

• Research and policy centers

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Archives
• Translation and linguistic representation

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

DDoS protection for civil society groups

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

The SPP Accelerator is a learning and coaching program to source and develop promising projects designed to improve education, learning, and development using data.

• coaching

• Accelerators

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• cities

• Govtech vendors

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Urban planning

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Reports

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy: freedom of expression; net neutrality; digital privacy; the free circulation of culture, knowledge and information; mechanisms for transparency, participation and citizen control of power and institutions; the defence of citizen journalism for the right to know, inform and be informed; the technical, communications and legal fight against corruption; and the technopolitics understood as the practice of networking and taking action for citizen empowerment, justice and social transformation.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Digital rights

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine

• Ukraine
• refugees
• racial equity

• Support civic projects with tech

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Participatory memorials

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Civin specializes in working with state and local governments and other public sector agencies to build data-driven programs that deliver lasting value.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Artistic interventions

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Research and policy centers
• Social media

Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Citizen Engagement

What stuck with us throughout this pandemic? Research project by @vishublab & @uclab_potsdam

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Archives