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Trestle Collaborative
United States of America (the)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.
Ad Observer
New York University, New York, NY, USAPolitical 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.
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott: 100 Days of Action Tracker
Baltimore, MDBaltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.
The Boston Globe's Biden endorsement
The Boston Globe, Exchange Place, Boston, MA, USAIn 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.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
New York University, New York, NY, USAS.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
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
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 Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world
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
@opengovjobs
Capitol HillTwitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.
CourtListener
Oakland, CaliforniaSearch millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3
Leerstandsmelder
Germany (Deutschland)Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt
A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Apolitical Microcourses
LondonInteractive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.
Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme
unBail
Cleveland, OhioDemocratizing information about the legal system
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
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
The Analyst Institute's Expy Awards recognize innovation in political organizing efficacy
Tech, Media & Democracy course
New York CityThrough a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy
The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more
Gong
GONG, Main Square 15/IV, ZagrebGong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.
Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FrancePublic authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.
Pro Bono Net
New York, NYVolunteer lawyers and legal aid advocates increasing access to justice From connecting attorneys to those most in need, to creating legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves, we make the law work for the many and not the few.
OneCity
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.
Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g
New_ Public
Austin, TXNew_ 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.
Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.
White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.
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