Civic Tech Field Guide

Government-backed attack alerts (Google Workspace)

As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.

Google

popAI

A European Positive Sum Approach towards AI tools in support of Law Enforcement and safeguarding privacy and fundamental rights

The Big Cases Bot

Oakland, California

The Big Cases Bot follows the most important federal cases in the country

Baseline vulnerable road user injury risk in multiple U.S. dense urban driving environments

Waymo partnered with dashcam company Nexar to analyze 500 million miles of driving, including 335 crashes, to create the 'largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries

The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.

Metroboard

A a mid-century live subway map on Kickstarter

mass transit

Trans Kids Deserve Better

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Trans Kids Deserve Better is a UK action network and resource hub advocating for the rights, healthcare, and support of transgender youth.

Campaign organizations

GenderAvenger Tally

San Francisco

Celebrate (or shame) event organizers for their program's gender (im)balance.

eQualitie

Canada

eQualitie is a Canadian digital security organisation focused on the development and distribution of free, open-source software, services and security training to civil society, NGO's, investigative journalists and independent media to protect and promote human rights and press freedom online

Breakout program

Canada

The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

free speech

Common Good AI

PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264

Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

Anchor Media, LLC

Hingham, MA

Anchor Media helps residents in Hingham, Mass., stay informed through hyperlocal journalism in order to create a more aware and connected community.

Austin Vida

Austin, TX

Austin Vida empowers its community by amplifying stories, events, and cultura. Latinos make up about 33% of Austin’s population; Austin Vida’s journalism centers that comunidad, which is underserved and underrepresented in U.S. media, to not only raise awareness of its diverse experiences but to also offer an accurate and holistic representation of the community.

The Lund Report

Portland, OR

The Lund Report is an independent, nonpartisan news service that produces high-quality journalism about health care in Oregon and southwest Washington. Its public-service journalism promotes the awareness and understanding required for positive progress, while holding industry and government accountable, bringing to light the underlying dynamics of health care that affect patients, practitioners, and the public, spotlighting disparities and inequities in the system.

Amjambo Africa

Westbrook, ME

Amjambo Africa educates its readers in Maine about Africa and immigration, advocating for the well-being of all immigrants through various multimedia platforms and events and raising awareness about the scope of the conflicts in Africa and why refugees and asylum seekers have left their countries in such numbers to come to Maine.

The River Reporter

Narrowsburg, NY

The River Reporter provides accurate and important community news and sponsors local forums and creative conversations, events, and initiatives (in collaboration with local organizations) to enhance the quality of life and increase civic engagement in the communities of the Upper Delaware River Valley

Houston Herald

Houston, MO

Established in 1878, the Houston Herald is the award-winning county seat weekly newspaper serving Texas County. In 2024, the Herald was judged one of the state’s top newspapers in its class in the Missouri Better Newspaper Contest.

Carolina Public Press

Durham, NC

Carolina Public Press is an independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to nonpartisan, in-depth, and investigative news built on the facts and context North Carolinians need to know. Its award-winning journalism dismantles barriers and shines a light on the critical overlooked and under-reported issues facing the state’s almost 10.7 million residents.

Radio Catskill

Liberty, NY

WJFF Radio Catskill is an independent community voice of the Catskills and Northeast Pennsylvania, connecting listeners through locally focused and globally aware programming to inform, entertain, and inspire its communities and promote understanding among people of diverse social, cultural, economic, and political backgrounds.

Paragraph Ranch LLC / The Texas Spur

Spur, TX

The Texas Spur (founded 1909) is the flagship weekly print and online newspaper of an award-winning regional five-newspaper group. It covers local government, education, agriculture, courts, sports, health, and lifestyle across ten contiguous rural counties of West Texas that are underserved by other media.

FunTimes Magazine, LLC

Philadelphia, PA

FunTimes is committed to amplifying the Black diaspora community’s voices and untold stories in the Delaware Valley, as well as promoting cultural insights and experiences to ensure Black perspectives are accurately represented and celebrated.

ecoRI News

Providence, RI

ecoRI News is dedicated to reporting on environmental and social justice issues in Rhode Island. Through its reporting, ecoRI creates a more informed public and provides individuals with the information they need to be better stewards of their environment.

India Currents Foundation

San Jose, CA

India Currents is an award-winning nonprofit, nonpartisan, ethnic media organization that serves the news and information needs of the fast-growing Indian American population in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Haitian Times

Brooklyn, NY

The Haitian Times was founded in 1999 to be a leading voice in the community’s evolution and to bridge the generational and geographical gaps among Haitians. To gather and share this nuanced narrative, it actively engages with its audiences in the ongoing journey toward real solutions for Haitians’ thorniest issues. It prioritizes people and humanizes policy decisions with coverage that brings a deeper understanding of Haitian and American culture and politics.

Asian Avenue Magazine

Aurora, CO

Asian Avenue Magazine is a monthly publication that shares the stories of Colorado’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) residents to build bridges of awareness, knowledge, and understanding between the diverse AANHPI communities and the public.

The Allegheny Front

Pittsburgh, PA

The Allegheny Front educates the general public to become environmentally literate and understand the issues facing their communities. It reports on local and regional news and stories that connect people to their own communities so they can become part of the civic dialogue, raising awareness about state, regional, and local environmental issues that affect the region.

Oakland Voices

Oakland, CA

Oakland Voices brings together journalists, community leaders, and residents to shift the dominant narrative about Oakland and its people toward a just city where everyone belongs, has a voice, and their stories and experiences are respected.

Tucson Sentinel

Tucson, AZ

Tucson Sentinel’s independent nonprofit newsroom is an award-winning journalism pioneer that learns from and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges and unique culture of the Borderlands. Through watchdog reporting, local commentary, and expert analysis, the Sentinel inspires residents to be meaningfully engaged with its community, promotes transparency and understanding, seeks solutions that empower, and holds the powerful accountable.

Iron String Press Inc. (Publisher of The Freeman's Journal/Hometown Oneonta/AllOtsego.com)

Cooperstown, NY

Iron String Press publications serve rural Otsego County, N.Y. The award-winning newspapers are locally owned and disseminate information in a thoughtful, impartial, and unbiased fashion, covering topics that impact county residents directly on a local, statewide, regional, national, and/or international level.

Juice Rescue ⚡🔌🚗

A collective effort to save and maintain Juicebox EV Chargers

Hardware

Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing Field

1025 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004

3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI

reports

Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool (NABIT)

Washington, DC

The NABIT (Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool) is a low-cost, hand-held, field-ready automated tool to validate the identity of a wildlife or food product, anywhere in the world, without specialized training, equipment, reagents, or even continuous power.

animals

United Nations World Data Forum

The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.

United Nations

Conservation X Labs (CXL)

Washington, DC

Unlike traditional conservation efforts, Conservation X Labs focuses on leveraging the best technology, the newest innovation, interdisciplinary genius, and the power of the marketplace to boldly confront the biggest problems facing the planet.

Artificial Intelligence

Sentinel

Washington, DC

Conservation X Labs’ Sentinel transforms wildlife monitoring tools — like trail cameras and acoustic recorders — with revolutionary and intuitive AI technology, processing environmental data in real-time as it’s collected.

animals

Tazama

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Open source transaction monitoring software

fintech

Earth Fire Alliance

United States of America (the)

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

fires

Crowdvocate

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.

FireSat

United States of America (the)

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

fires

دليل الأمن الرقمي للنشطاء في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا (Digital Security Guide for Activists in the Middle East and North Africa)

Middle East and North Africa

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

guides

Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

AI & Democracy Foundation

San Francisco

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

United States of America (the)

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

books

YoMobi

Johannesburg, South Africa

YoMobi is a digital platform cooperative that empowers youth organisations by providing tools for skill development, learning, and community engagement to tackle youth unemployment and enhance socio-economic inclusion.

DWeb Camp

California

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

Google Censorship

China (Zhong Guo)

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

AI-Ready Flemish Public Administration

Funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and implemented by UNESCO, this project supports the Flemish government in implementing reforms by contributing to the improved AI-readiness and increased adoption of AI across the Flemish public administrations in a safe and ethical manner.

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