crypto governance

• Blockchain

Test+Build is a digital platform that provides customers with the tools to design their own behavioural science interventions and run their own randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is accepting proposals from members of the public interest cybersecurity community who have ideas that will advance the cybersecurity capacity and resilience of small critical infrastructure at the community level.

• Cybersecurity
• Challenges

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

• guides
• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Direct action

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research groups
• User research

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• cities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

Successful public-facing technologies rely upon direct resident engagement and community-focused design.

• Graveyard
• User research groups
• User research

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

• Graveyard
• User research groups
• User research

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Direct action

An aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action
• Activism aggregators

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Behavioral economics programs

Our intention with the protest tracker was to map public discourse around GotaGoHome protests and it's spread around Sri Lanka.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps

UserTesting is pleased to offer free and discounted customer experience research services to qualifying charitable organizations through the OneWorld program.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• User research

By CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.

• cities

• Graveyard
• User research groups
• User research

Consul is one of the leading open source citizen participation platforms. It's built on Ruby on Rails and deployed in dozens of cities around the world. It was originally built by the City of Madrid.

• CONSUL

CUTgroup gives residents the opportunity to be a part of the design process for emerging civic technology initiatives through user testing and focus groups

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

Connecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Nonprofit tech

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• The People

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

This is an online course designed around promoting and discussing student-led voice in civic engagement.

• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

by @authoritycollective. Do No Harm

• guides

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Media

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• COVID Data Projects

Sign up to have your daily NYC protest update texted and emailed to you.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• SMS tools

Este proyecto nace con la intención de ser una campaña de sensibilización para proteger el derecho a la protesta y denunciar la persecución policial en espacios digitales.

• policing

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Government transparency

Magazín o zdraví, kráse, detoxikácii, testosterónu, vypadávanie vlasov, zväčšenie poprsia, peelingu, chudnutie a ďalších témach.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

NCSC staff will provide intensive training and technical assistance to help courts revise one form or a small set of forms to improve plain language and readability. Your court will identify one form, or a small set of forms to work on throughout the project. At the end of camp, your materials will be redesigned, translated into plain language, and user tested.

• The People
• Govtech
• Meet the others

The Open Energy Badge displays energy/CO2 costs for GitHub projects, covering test runs, API calls, and more, created by Green Metrics Tool.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Report cards and audits
• Indicators
• Carbon calculators

The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Generative AI

#GotaGoHome: The hashtag that defined Sri Lanka’s revolution

• human rights
• humanitarian

• Advocacy tech
• Protest movements

Prathya is an online ecosystem of support for persons affected by OGBV in Sri Lanka developed by the organizations Hashtag Generation and Delete Nothing and was launched in October 2022.

• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)
• domestic violence
• anti-harassment

• The Tech
• Case management

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding is a Search for Common Ground Sri Lanka project to establish a digital learning, networking, mentorship, and professional development platform for youth (ages 18-29) interested in addressing online dangerous hate speech.

• hate speech
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital participation platforms
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy

This project [by Jessica Dai], in collaboration with Deb Raji, explores designing a framework for the general public to report and contest large-scale harms from algorithmic decision making systems (ADS).

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Drones

Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems

• Advocacy tech
• The craft of organizing
• Civil society research outfits

a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.

• cities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF

• youth
• Ukraine
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Story-based campaigns

The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.

• Climate action
• culture
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Civic tech catalogs
• Urban planning

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses