IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

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• In-person meetings

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

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• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

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• Research and policy centers

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

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• Emerging tech
• Bots

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

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• Civic hacking meetups

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

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• Funders & donors

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers. The brand was established in 2011 by the City’s Economic Development Unit. The Durban EDGE produces publications; economic info releases, as well as on-demand seminars; an annual release on the State of the Durban Economy; and topical research papers. Each release includes reliable data on the global, domestic, and local economy; designed to assist researchers, investors, business leaders, politicians and other key stakeholders.

Designed for interested public officials, technologists, politicians and researchers, the CrowdLaw Communiqué features curated news, interviews, announcements, and recommended readings on the…

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• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

• Civic data
• Roundtables

Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

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Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Civic tech catalogs
• Socialize online
• Job boards

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Pro bono and volunteer

Smart growth is a way to build cities, towns, and neighborhoods that are economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable.

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• Research and policy centers

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• Build something

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

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Where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers

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• Design

The Hive Biolab exists to promote grassroots biotechnology innovation using research and entrepreneurship.

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

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• Civic data

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

• racial equity

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DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers. DataFirst also offers training to African data managers and researchers.The data the Open Data Portal provides datasets, studies and surverys carried out by universities, private organisations and government departments. In 2016 UCT Data First had about 37 047 online usage.

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

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• Awards and prizes

Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.

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Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

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• Innovation teams and labs

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

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• Research and policy centers

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

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• Engagement tech

Applied makes recruitment smart, fair and easy.

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• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Fellowships

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

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To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

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• The People
• Media

Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies

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Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

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• Books

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

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• Research and policy centers

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

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studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

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• Research and policy centers

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

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• Research and policy centers
• Digital literacy

Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

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• Data science for social good

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

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• The People
• Engagement tech

• Media
• Graveyard
• Innovation teams and labs

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

• human rights

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
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• Build something

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

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Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

• reports

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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