Code for All’s new program brings people together who work similar civic tech roles, but at different organizations and in different parts of the world.
"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins
Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine
A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census
We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.
To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.
The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.