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Ethical OS Risk Mitigation Manual
Institute for the Future, Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, USAMost 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.
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
CivicPlus
302 South 4th Street, Suite 500 Manhattan, Kansas 66502A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.
the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals
We are campaign workers from across the United States who are committed to improving our work conditions, empowering organizers, and promoting healthy career longevity.
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.
Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechWe explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
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.
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
The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world
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.
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.
Leerstandsmelder
Germany (Deutschland)Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt
A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
New York City, NY, USAA Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
This Ford Foundation toolkit includes introductory disability definitions and language guidelines, in addition to guidance on creating accessible in-person and virtual events, social media, and disability inclusive employment practices from recruitment to retention.
Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world
Media Monitoring Africa
AfricaA non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
Just One Giant Lab
Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) - 8 bis rue Charles V, 75004, ParisJust One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.
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.
Open data on decarbonization
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.
BoardTrack
New York CityBoardTrack 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
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York CityIn 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.
सङ्ग्रह (Collection)
NepalThe collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages of Nepal.
Code for Nepal
NepalHelping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19
Parliamentary Network Africa
GE185-7537 BOHYE ROAD (ECOWAS HIGHWAY), NEW ASHONGMAN ESTATE, ACCRA GHANAParliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.
Act Hub Africa
Basorun Rd, 200285, Ibadan, NigeriaAct Hub Africa is a civic-tech NGO that works to promote good governance, democracy, ensure openness and transparency in the local governments by making their fiscal data available in a simplified, easy to understand form and engage people in the local government areas on how to use them in engaging their political officeholders
MediaReview
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAA sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.
FactStream
The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.
Master of Science in Computational Analysis and Public Policy at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago, South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USAThe MSCAPP curriculum is a three-legged stool, building foundational knowledge of computer science, statistics, and public policy analysis.
Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.
Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) is a multi-institutional initiative using techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities.
Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.
Public Editor
Berkeley, CA, USAWe’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.
The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled
Permission Slip
Yonkers, NY, USAOne app to take back control of your data
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