The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Primer Concurso Nacional de Estudiantes de Derecho

• students

• Legal tech

Pela defesa dos direitos digitais em Portugal

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

You can install Dangerzone on your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, and then use it to open a variety of types of documents: PDFs, Microsoft Office or LibreOffice documents, or images

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Summer open data training and materials piloted in 2023

• trainings

• Civic data

Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) is a NETWORK OF FUNDERS in the global south, east, and north dedicated to resourcing HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION around the world.

• Tools for Funders

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

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

Mastodon bot posting US Presidential Actions and new policy updates from OMB, OSTP, OPM, EOs, etc.

• Govtech
• Bots
• News and blogs

The Foundry is a collaborative organization for Internet law and policy professionals who are passionate about disruptive innovation

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Professional associations

Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) is an “accidental professional association” that began in Portland, Oregon in 2012 with a 16 member dinner group. Today, ELGL has grown to over 4800 members from all 50 states plus Canada, UK, Israel, and Australia.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.

• recidivism

• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

The Risk and Response Fund is a $10 million pool of unrestricted resources that can be deployed with speed when a crisis strikes

• Media
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A Digital Servant's Guide to U.S. Federal Information Technology Law and Policy

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Building inside government

By participating in GSA’s study on identity verification technology, you can help identify potential barriers and challenges that impact individuals from diverse backgrounds.

• Govtech
• Identity
• User research

LinkedIn newsletter sharing tech and innovation jobs in government from across the US, by Rebecca Heywood

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Newsletters

JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy
• Podcasts

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

The Public Interest Tech Webring is a collection of blogs dedicated to civic tech, public interest tech, government tech policy, and similar topics.

• Learn about civic tech
• Public Interest Tech
• News and blogs

What is a “progressive data” job? Loosely defined as a job where the majority of the role, department, or organization is focused on data or analytics work in the progressive space. This work may include anything from data science and software engineering to sales and staff management.

• partisan

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Jobs & Fellowships in Tech, Policy & Politics

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Unlike other job boards, Foundry Jobs is focused solely on Internet law and policy jobs.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Tech or Digital Policy

A curated list of mostly senior positions in US govtech

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Carbon calculators

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

• hate speech
• diaspora

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

Greenhost provides hosting for NGOs and businesses that take ethical issues and sustainability seriously.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Web hosting

Microsoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.

• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Visualization of great sums by using your time

Open Data Kosovo is a nonprofit organization that believes in using civic-tech and digital humanitarianism to open government.

• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

In one place, years of public money spent on spectacular team sports (football, hockey, handball, basketball, water polo).

• Government transparency

Know where you spend your money - mapping politically exposed hotel & restaurant owners

• Civic maps

We connect volunteers (developers, graphic designers, marketing specialists) with impactful social good projects to help them with tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Collaborative data collection map on informal payment in maternity care

• Civic maps

Balaton cast in concrete - Explore the constructions from above

K-Monitor aimed to make Parliamentary data more accessible.

• Government transparency

Budget visualization tool for municipalities. Already in use in Budapest XIV and many other municipalities.

• Budget explorers

Civilzseb.hu is user-friendly budget visualisation tool. It was made to help NGOs to present their operation in understandable and transparent way.

• Budget explorers

Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy

• Govtech
• Mapping tools
• Mapping platforms

The use of algorithms in public administration can make our public affairs more convenient, accurate and faster, but it is important to be aware of the limitations of these technologies. Report 2.0

Transparency International Hungary's project, based solely on public data, will show the companies that win public money, their procurement activities, results, ownership and public relations, to provide an online tool to detect and prevent political corruption.

• Government transparency

Google Chrome Add-on for selecting the most interesting articles of the origo.hu propaganda news website.

• extensions

• Media
• Media literacy
• News and blogs

Polimorphic is the first Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically built for local governments.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Herramientas para la democracia local

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Mediante el proyecto audiovisual Voces de una nueva generación, hemos recopilado testimonios de jóvenes nacidos a partir de los años 90, que han forjado sus opiniones a través de la memoria colectiva, historias familiares y documentos de la época.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

Digital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

Monitor Macroscopic Internet Outages in Near Real-Time

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity