The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Co-design

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artistic interventions

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Emerging tech
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

This is a dataset that uses multiple metrics of deprivation to rank all small neighbourhood sized chunks of the UK from most to least deprived.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Narrative tech

Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity

• Reduced inequalities

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

by Okki Berendschot

• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.

• banking
• Reduced inequalities

• Specific campaigns

Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization