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

• reports

• Emerging Tech report
• Emerging tech
• Reports

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic maps

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

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

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Regulation

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Nonprofit tech

While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open government data

DataShare is a podcast series that invites listeners to learn from top experts about government data policies. We will explore the dilemmas and potential solutions to make sure we build a sustainable data infrastructure.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Podcasts

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Co-design
• Research and policy centers
• Design

Lyft updates its free rides to the polls program with a half-off discount for 2022 US elections, potentially due to belt-tightening

• commercial

• Voting and elections
• Getting to the polls

Connecting Carbon Markets Through Open Data

• Climate action

• Blockchain

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Guides.vote produces nonpartisan voters guides that show where candidates stand. They’re produced by veteran journalists with links to credible sources. Whether you vote by mail or head to the polls, our guides let you do it with confidence

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

El Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, IIDH/CAPEL, es un programa especializado del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The CR Digital Lab offers paid, non-resident fellowships to study the effects of connected products and services.  Fellows will undertake research to increase transparency and advance consumers’ interests in the marketplace—devising new testing frameworks, tools, and procedures to evaluate values such as privacy, security, and fairness. Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse community of technologists, leverage CR’s physical labs and testing infrastructure, and communicate findings to manufacturers, policymakers, and the public. Applications for our 2020 non-resident fellowships are now closed. We appreciate your interest and hope that you will consider applying next year when we reopen applications for the 2021 season.

• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent

• Gender Equality
• women

• Bots
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Following the example of the whistleblowers site Wikileaks we opened this site to promote transparency and fight the nexus of organized crime and political corruption in the Balkan states.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• News and blogs

Refugees as City-Makers

• cities
• refugees

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Civic maps

Tarbell makes it simple to put your work on the web, whether you’re a team of one or a dozen. With Tarbell, you can collaboratively build beautiful websites and publish them with ease. Tarbell makes use of familiar, flexible tools to take the magic (and frustration) out of publishing to the web. Google spreadsheets handle content management, so changes to your stories are easy to make without touching a line of code. Step-by-step prompts help you set up and configure your project, so that publishing it is a breeze.

Nunca foi tão fácil avaliar políticas públicas!

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Transparencia, para que conozcas los datos más relevantes de los proyectos ganadores de la consulta del Presupuesto Participativo en la Ciudad de México, a lo largo del tiempo.

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Partner networks and coalitions

Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Open Data Project Web Peru

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Advocates Equality | Fights Racism and Racial Discrimination

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

El CPI reconoce que el requisito fundamental para una verdadera democracia es que la ciudadanía esté bien informada y que existan entidades independientes con la capacidad de fiscalizar los poderes que accionan en la sociedad, sean públicos o privados.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech

The Aspen Institute Kyiv is an independent nonpartisan organization that supports values-based leadership, promotes a culture of dialogue and create opportunities for the exchange of ideas.

Trabajamos por una sociedad justa e inclusiva, capaz de revertir la pobreza y la discriminación contra grupos vulnerabilizados, que garantice a todas las personas el acceso pleno a sus derechos, a ser tratadas como iguales y a contar con instituciones democráticas y transparentes que brinden posibilidades reales de participar e influir en la toma de decisiones sobre los asuntos públicos.

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

As of 2013, iSolon.org’s primary project has been providing state-by-state information clearinghouses regarding upcoming periodic state constitutional convention referendums. iSolon also maintains a central information clearinghouse for the fourteen U.S. states with such periodic referendums.

• state

• Constitutions

deepfakes How good are you at spotting political deepfakes? Test yourself with the latest version of Detect Fakes, featuring a series of both real videos and deepfakes of the two most recent US presidents. The goal of this work, developed by researchers in the Affective Computing and Viral Communications research groups, is to "prebunk" deepfakes—videos manipulated by neural networks—by

Catalyst California (formerly Advancement Project California) advocates for racial justice by building power and transforming public systems.

Ma Dada est un site associatif qui vous aide à faire des demandes d’accès aux documents administratifs communicables.

Accountability Counsel amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment. As advocates for people harmed by internationally financed projects, we employ community driven and policy level strategies to access justice.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging philanthropy

A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges

• Amazon

• Get funding
• Build something

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Media

Computer Professional’s Union (CPU) is a mass organization of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals and advocates aspiring to promote ICT for the people.​

• Professional associations
• Peer networks

Last updated 2011. This website gives you an unique overview of the votes cast in the European Parliament. You can easily find and compare voting records of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and political groups and you can make your own comments and cast your own votes.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Electric South collaborates with artists across Africa in emerging storytelling, through labs, production and distribution.

Viewfinder is an accountability journalism project in South Africa. Viewfinder conduct long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.

• Investigative journalism tech

Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works.

• Open knowledge