Real-time HD maps for autonomous driving

• Mapping tools

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

• extensions
• Facebook
• YouTube

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Advertising

To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).

• Awards and prizes
• Smart Cities and sensors

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Books
• Mapping

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out
• Challenges

Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.

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

/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.

• racial equity

• Peer networks

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

• racial equity

• Conferences
• Peer networks

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight

• census

• Bots

We are campaign workers from across the United States who are committed to improving our work conditions, empowering organizers, and promoting healthy career longevity.

• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech unions

UNI Global Union's Top Ten Principles for Workers' Data Rights fills an enormous gap with regards workers' rights in the new world of work.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Online courses

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic and social impact companies

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. [email protected] 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Govtech vendors

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.

• guides

• Procurement

Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.

• guides

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life. 

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W

• Fellowships
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

In this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.

• US Election 2020

• Media

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards
• Content provenance

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• Participatory budgeting

BoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC

• templates

• Meeting tech

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.

• Consumer watchdogging

Open data on decarbonization

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Open data publishing portals

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Archives
• Translation and linguistic representation

open data, transparent society

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Liberating Knowledge for Opportunities

• Civic apps outfits
• Open knowledge

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Explore Nepal Using Data

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open data publishing portals

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech