Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

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• Deaf

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• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories

• Report cards and audits

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• cities
• place-based

• Archives
• Artistic interventions

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

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A newsletter on democracy, organizing, movements and tech by Micah Sifry

• Newsletters

New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters
• News and blogs

Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa.

• Media
• Narrative tech

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin

• cities

• Civic tech catalogs

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

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• Zero hunger

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• Civic maps

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Conferences
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Benchmarks

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

• labor
• Amazon

• Crowdsourcing

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

Democratizing information about the legal system

• apps

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Access to laws

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible

• guides
• partisan

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• Funders & donors

The Analyst Institute's Expy Awards recognize innovation in political organizing efficacy

• Awards and prizes

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

• Fight disinformation
• Courses

“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more

• Govtech
• Shows and films

Gong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Filter bubble poppers

Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services

• Govtech
• Justice tech

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) is a national nonprofit that harnesses the power of data, technology, and policy to provide efficient and dignified access to assistance.

• Access social benefits

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Compara aquí las posturas de distintos actores políticos para Chile

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• Justice tech
• Interactive Voice Response

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

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

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Civic features

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• cities

• News and blogs

A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work

• guides

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The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.

• News and blogs

Code Hopper is a repository to share code across the progressive community. Currently it consists of data wrangling functions, and our goal is to continually expand its scope.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions

MisinfoDay is an annual event co-hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) and Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.

• Fight disinformation
• Holidays

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

Book by Sarah Williams -- How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression.

• books

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Books

European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds

• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

A modernized think tank; fast-turnaround, social media-optimized, and rigorous analysis.

• Surveys & polling

One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.

• waste
• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising

• partisan

• Fundraising tools

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Advertising