Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Voter assistance tech

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• User research
• Courses
• Playbooks and design principles

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

• The Tech
• The People
• Find a job or hire someone

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information. The map is part of the Media Deserts Project, a joint research project of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Department of Geography and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

• Media
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• Research and policy centers

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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• Research and policy centers

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

This Expert Network Accelerates The Search For Talent. Case study by GovLab

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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• Research and policy centers

From the federal to state to local government, the Books are Open… Search salary, pension and spending databases.

• Watchdogging and transparency

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

The South African Data Archive serves as a broker between a range of data providers (for example, statistical agencies, government departments, opinion and market research companies and academic institutions) and the research community. The archive does not only preserve data for future use, but all adds value to the collections. It safeguards datasets and related documentation and attempts to make it as easily accessible as possible for research and educational purposes. The Data Portal provides access to the SADA holdings of data sets. It allows online browsing according to specific collections, including author, title, subject and date. The Advanced Search facility facilitates searching by keywords. The Study Descriptions and certain documentation can be downloaded from the portal. Please order the data directly from SADA by completing an "Order Form".

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

傳真社將逾220個大廈翻新工程的入標資料製作成「樓宇維修工程關係圖」，使用者只需要輸入屋苑、顧問或工程公司名稱，便可以找到相關公司或工程的入標紀錄，有助了解公司口碑。

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

an action research laboratory

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• Degree programs

'Find that Charity', developed by David Kane and supported by 360Giving, is a tool for finding data about non-profit organisations.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech

Das CityScienceLab der HafenCity Universität Hamburg erforscht mit PartnerInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft die Veränderung von Städten im Kontext der Digitalisierung

• cities

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• Research and policy centers

Engine supports the growth of technology entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis, and advocacy on local and national issues.

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• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Enabling access to global clinical research studies. Launch your clinical study and find thousands of vetted, eligible participants in minutes.

• Good health and well-being

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Open Belgium is an annual event gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. Experience this one-day community driven conference with talks, discussions, panels, workshops and become part of the open community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Collaborating with progressive organizations and Democratic campaigns around the US to measure & increase the impact of their programs.

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• Research and policy centers

A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Mzalendo is a non-partisan entity that keeps an eye on Kenyan Parliament with a mission to facilitate public participation in Parliamentary processes through Information Sharing, Research and Networking.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is an Indian, non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives -- including hundreds of articles on Accessibility.

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Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
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• Fight disinformation

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

• place-based

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The list contains relevant articles for anyone interested in understanding the space of technological solutions to societal, governmental, and society-government interface problems.

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• Reading lists

We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We developed the Community Maturity Model™ (CMM) to help organizations understand, plan for and assess the performance of community and social business initiatives.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

The Federal VR and AR Program is a collaborative hub for the research and refinement of VR and AR business cases and pilot programs across government.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

• apps

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

These tools can help you test ideas and products with real users so you design services that work for people. There are also tools to help you present research in a meaningful way and bring it to life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We’re excited to share that over the next year, we’ll be carrying out a new research initiative looking at how UK charities re-use existing digital tools for service delivery.

• reuse

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Emerging Tech Projects

Technology at work for the public

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Scholars. Practitioners. Leaders.

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• Research and policy centers

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes

• taxes

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• Organize campaigns

Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic data

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Media

Code for Poland

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• Civic hacking meetups