Projects - The Tech

Civicspace.tech

Washington, DC

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

The Collective Intelligence Project

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

Data.gov

United States of America (the)

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data

Geodata.gov.gr

Greece

Ανοικτά δεδομένα, προσβάσιμα σε όλους!

data.gov.be Belgium

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Data, tools and resources. More than 10,000 datasets.

data.govt.nz

Government Information Services, The Department of Internal Affairs, Level 1, 109 Featherston Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Discover and use data

datos.gob.es

Spain

Iniciativa de datos abiertos del Gobierno de España

A suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.

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Preptrack

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

Taiwan FactCheck Center

7F, No. 7, Lane 116, Guangfu South Road, Daan District, Taipei City 10694

Taiwan’s first fact-checking center was jointly supported by the Taiwan Media Observation Education Foundation and the Quality Journalism Development Association.

Facticious

News game based on sorting fake and real news

BOOM

Mumbai

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)

888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

Numina

Brooklyn, NY

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

Ad Hoc

United States of America (the)

Better government software. Services that work, for people.

18F Modular Contracting guide

GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Modular Contracting and Agile Development in government.

Accela

2633 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA

Government software that streamlines land, permitting, asset, licensing, right-of-way, legislative management, and resource and recreation management processes.

Algo Transparency

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

ActionKit

Washington, DC

Tools to build a movement

38degrees

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Start a petition with one of the UK's largest campaign organisations. People power change

#TacticalVote (formerly Tactical2017)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Tactical voting against the Tories.

A People’s Guide to AI

4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

¿Qué Pasó Con

Spain

Vigilamos el cumplimiento que el Gobierno hace de las iniciativas de orientación política aprobadas por el Parlamento en temas de desarrollo y lucha contra la pobreza

Delib Dialogue

Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EH

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

ActLocal Resource Directory

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

AI Initiative

Cambridge, MA, USA

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

AI Resources

2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, France

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

Zencity Engage (formerly Civil Space)

British Columbia

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

ACCESS NYC

New York City, NY, USA

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

(Mis)informed

St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

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A strategy for urban data

Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69, 1011 HB Amsterdam, Netherlands

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

#BoycottNRA

ActiVote

1 Avery St, Boston, MA, USA

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

AI Now Institute

New York City, NY, USA

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.