The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Factchecking

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The firm's long-running nonprofit tech benchmarks

• Nonprofit tech
• Benchmarks

Community-driven litigation for racial, social, and economic justice

• Advocacy tech
• Justice tech

A writeup of the partnership

• Clean water and sanitation

• Emerging tech
• Data science for social good
• Satellites

Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

US White House order including addressing AI generated public comments

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.

• trainings

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

The Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.

• Github

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• city

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Теплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital literacy

Ask and answer the questions that matter to you as a public servant. Learn, share and connect.

• Govtech
• Civic forums
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online

• Wordpress

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
• Build something
• Fieldwide resources

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Open data publishing portals

Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

The Guardian Project Podcast

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Podcasts

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

Computer scientists for e-democracy Facebook Group

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Social impact design firms

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• city
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Urban planning
• Design
• Manifestos

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Mapping
• Specific campaigns
• Location

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

Create and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Fundraising tools
• Petitions
• Activism aggregators

In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Cybersecurity

An award for the best games for social impact of the year

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Games and gamification
• Awards and prizes

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Games and gamification

DataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.

• 2023 Webby Awards

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

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

News site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

The Social Network for E-Democracy

• Issue reporting
• Civic forums
• Social networks

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech