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Learn About Civic Tech

Explore 405 projects in the Learn About Civic Tech category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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Dangerous Speech Project

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people โ€“ and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

2015
hate speech

Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline

โ€œThe Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.โ€

London
WhatsApp

Planning Resource

Find news, appeals decisions & best practice for development management & strategic planners on PlanningResource

UK
2004
http://d4bl.org/ActiveOpen-source

Data for Black Lives

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

USA
2017
racial equity

The Cato Institute

Libertarian think tank conducting research and advocacy on public policy issues.

1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
1977

TechSoup

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USA
1987

Global Disinformation Index

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

2018

Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

Cambridge, MA
2024
books

Internet Governance Forum

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

2006