A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research tools

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Procurement

Join us to build a better Singapore

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• Digital standards

A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain

• courses

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Artificial Intelligence

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Books

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Academia
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Research and policy centers
• Data science for social good
• Academia

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic maps

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Bucharest Institute for Public Policy

Our name, Digital Public Square, embodies our shared vision to create the vibrant, healthy, community spaces we all urgently need.

VoxPublic appuie les associations et collectifs citoyens en France qui combattent les injustices sociales, les discriminations, la corruption et toute atteinte à l’État de droit.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) was officially launched in April 2001 as a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to deliver independent, analytical, critical yet constructive research into social, political and economic issues that affect development in Namibia.

CIPPEC works to promote a just, democratic and efficient State that improves the quality of life for all Argentine citizens.

Providus has been Latvia’s leading public policy think tank since 2002. Our mission is to promote evidence-based policy and open society values.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

สำนักข่าวออนไลน์ไทยพับลิก้า ThaiPublica.org ก่อตั้งในเดือนกันยายน 2554 นำเสนอข่าวสืบสวนสอบสวน เน้นประเด็นตรวจสอบความโปร่งใสภาครัฐ ความโปร่งใสภาคเอกชน และการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน ดำเนินงานโดยทีมงานนักข่าวอาชีพที่มีประสบการณ์ในวงการรวมกันกว่า 60 ปี

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank - A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the

In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public sphere.

• reports

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Reports

• Funders & donors

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology. By Jenny Toomey & Latanya Sweeney

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Public Interest Tech

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Conferences

PIT Commons of DC is a multidisciplinary collaboration of DC institutions providing open access PIT career development resources to DC prof/grad students.

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative. This includes metrics for five types of public diplomacy: financial, cultural, elite-to-elite, exchange, and informational. Using this dashboard you can create custom data sets, maps and graphs based on the type of public diplomacy, recipient countries and time periods in which you are specifically interested.

• Civic maps

We partner with agencies to enable human-centered, digitally-assisted public benefits programs.

• Access social benefits

Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.

• resources
• curricula

• Govtech
• Courses

By CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.

• cities

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

Many of the perpetrators of the US Capitol attacks on January 6th uploaded videos to Parler. These videos leaked, and here ProPublica visualizes them on a chronological timeline.

• Media
• Timelines

New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Newsletters

The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that strives for a more effective government for the American people.

• Tech talent

iDPI looks to move beyond "fixing" existing internet infrastructures like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and asks what we might build if we constructed digital spaces for the public good instead.

• Research and policy centers
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Profiles in Public Service tells the compelling stories about the unsung public servant leaders who have driven government’s most important accomplishments.

• Govtech
• Podcasts

systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving PublicProblems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data,and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerfulsolutions to contemporary problems."

• Books

The Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for practitioners at the intersection of responsible technology development to explore multidisciplinary approaches to maximizing the societal benefits of emerging technologies while minimizing the harms.    

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships

Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Books

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

The MSCAPP curriculum is a three-legged stool, building foundational knowledge of computer science, statistics, and public policy analysis.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Degree programs

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

• Courses
• Online courses

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