IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging

Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Awards and prizes

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Incubators

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Supporting public sector from outside government

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

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

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

Our “Bedrock, USA” podcast explored the rise of far-right extremism in two local governments.

• local
• towns

• Govtech
• Podcasts

From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.

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

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

For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.

• Ballot information

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.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Co-design

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

The Local Authority is the podcast from LGC and TPXimpact. Each month we will bring together leading figures from within and around local government to discuss one aspect of the sector’s future.

• Govtech
• Podcasts

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

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Government Technology used the Socrata Open Data API to look at about 55,000 data assets published by 336 U.S. state and local governments — an average of 163 assets per publisher

• Civic data
• Open government data

We unite, organise, and mobilise progressive forces around the world. Get Involved We are turning Black Friday into Make Amazon Pay Day

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Connecting Carbon Markets Through Open Data

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) is a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations including BLVD Harambee.

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

The Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.

• reports

• Media
• Fieldwide resources
• Nonprofit newsrooms

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Accelerator for America and Honeywell Collaborate to Promote Smart City Growth in Five U.S. Cities

• commercial

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Accelerators

Data reveals a patchwork of approaches to digital identities across the continent with varying levels of success.

• Govtech
• Identity

USAID report

• United States (federal government)

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Open spreadsheet to calculate the carbon benefits of protected bikelanes

• cycling
• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Carbon calculators

At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Dashboards

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

All Tech Is Human has developed this free program in order to help build the Responsible Tech pipeline – by facilitating connections and career development among talented students, career changers, and practitioners.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Find a job or hire someone

Short for “human experience,” HX is an approach to talking about, engaging with, and designing technology in a way that is aligned with our needs as humans — not users.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

The All Tech Is Human Library Podcast is a special 16-part series featuring a series of rapid-fire intimate conversations with academics, AI ethicists, activists, entrepreneurs, public interest technologists, and integrity workers, who help us answer: How do we build a responsible tech future?

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Podcasts

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Honor your loved ones with a digital Día de Muertos altar by the Los Angeles Times

• Media
• Engagement journalism
• Participatory memorials

The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

We are a global group of change makers working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential.

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Economic development

Advocates Equality | Fights Racism and Racial Discrimination

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

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.

Transparency International chapter

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) is an organization focused on developing and promoting various forms of investigative journalism through collaboration with journalists, activists, and citizens in Italy and abroad.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech

An organization dedicated to investigating corruption, injustice, and abuse of power in the federal government and advocating for reforms.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The African Elections Project : your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

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

PILDAT will work for strengthening democracy and democratic institutions in Pakistan by building the capability of and instituting non-partisan monitoring framework for the elected representatives and legislatures while facilitating greater participation of all segments of the society in the democratic process and development of new political leadership.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Korea's open data portal

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