The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

A 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.

Just 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.

This site loads one of a series of prompts to help the user empathize with people experiencing various conditions, from Multiple Sclerosis to near-sightedness.

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 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

We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.

In 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.

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight

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.

We 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.

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

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

Many of the perpetrators of the US Capitol attacks on January 6th uploaded videos to Parler. These videos leaked, and here ProPublica visualizes them on a chronological timeline.

Report a dark pattern today. It will help us fight back against companies usingmanipulative dark patterns to take our private information, money, andtime. You deserve respect, online and off.

Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.

4 million Users & Beneficiaries, 22 NGOs & Social Enterprises, 16 Indian States

"US governments struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies and with the expectations of the public for governmental service delivery akin to what they experience in other aspects of their normal daily lives."

Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.

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.

Political 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.

Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.

/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

Liberating Knowledge for Opportunities

open data, transparent society

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

The MSCAPP curriculum is a three-legged stool, building foundational knowledge of computer science, statistics, and public policy analysis.

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

Supporting civil society organizations in Latin America

Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.

One app to take back control of your data

Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.

A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.

This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

Actionable data to bolster public safety

This tool allows the public to view, sort, filter, and download ballot images from the 2021 Coordinated Election, permitting an extra level of election transparency from the comfort and safety of their home.

This Code for Canada case study underscores what is possible when it comes to onboarding and implementing digital talent in government