The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

• Research and policy centers
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Academia

Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Summarize research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Research, training, support and awards to promote citizen-centred public sector service to Canadians

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Service delivery

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

• Data science for social good
• Evaluate impact

FOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.

• labor

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civil society research outfits

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• COVID
• Peer-reviewed research

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech
• Research and policy centers

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"

• Good health and well-being
• racial equity
• commercial

• Diversity & Inclusion

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research tools

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Grant management
• Bureaucracy tech

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter

• anti-harassment

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Solidarity networks

Brave Conversations seeks to explore the inter-relationship betweens humans, society and technology - as we develop smart tecnologies we need to become smarter humans!

Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

A game where players help researchers map the human brain

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Open science

Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Academic programs

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Smart Cities and sensors

This library of final reports from grant funded projects in the deep tech and research space is a great place to find relevant information without having to write it all yourself!

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts

• Get funding
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fundraising tools

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Urban planning
• Peer-reviewed research
• Satellites

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Connectivity

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.

• immigration
• refugees

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research