Course designed and taught by Maria Milosh at Bard College and Kronika in January - May 2026.

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電子地図を活用して地域を科学的に理解し、データリテラシーと分析スキルを育成する教育プロジェクト。

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

The NYC Open Data Lab is a public-facing initiative that equips students to access, analyze, and publish civic data through reproducible workflows and open-source tools.

• Civic data
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• Academia

ARSET offers satellite remote sensing training that builds the capacity of organizations to use NASA Earth science data in their decision-making.

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• Mapping
• Courses

EDIA es un proyecto de la Fundación Vía Libre cuyo objetivo es involucrar a más personas en la evaluación de tecnologías de inteligencia artificial como son los modelos de lenguaje (por ejemplo, ChatGPT).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government

The DataHaven Youth Advisory Council (DHYAC) has created a model for democratizing data and AI literacy by equipping young people with practical skills to interpret and apply data for participatory action research.

• youth

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Courses

This course ​explores​ the theory and practice of legislative scrutiny and explores the potential role of technology​ to augment these efforts​. The course will take place online and in Berlin from 8–22 January 2026.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Courses

La Escuela Judicial de Costa Rica, la CONAMAJ y la Conferencia Internacional de Justicia Abierta le agradecen su inscripción en el Curso de Justicia Abierta.

• Open justice
• Courses

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

Zuckerman and students explore digital media, polarization, and democracy

• Academia
• Courses

Taught By: Eduardo Staszowski

• Project 2025

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• Academia
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Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

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• Data visualization

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

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• Academia
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Taught By Richard The

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• Academia

This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.

• teachers & educators

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• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

• Courses
• Online courses

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• courses

• Artificial Intelligence
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This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.

• Academia
• Deliberation
• Courses

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

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• Academia
• Courses

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

A curriculum for the Service Design 101 course with readings and case studies

• Newspeak House

• Courses
• Service delivery
• Reading lists

The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Courses

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

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Courses

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

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• Courses
• Online courses

Two courses - Understanding Citizen Journalism and Digital Disinformation and Journalistic Responsibilities

• Fight disinformation
• Courses
• Media literacy

The skills you need to deliver services that work

• trainings

• Courses
• Service delivery

Course at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Courses

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
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Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

• Fight disinformation
• Courses

Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.

• resources
• curricula

• Govtech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Fieldwide resources

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

• Courses
• Online courses

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

• The People
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• Meet the others

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs

• Climate action

• Participatory budgeting
• Courses
• Participatory budgeting tools

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

• The People
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• Courses

A process of improving, adapting, or developing a product, system, or service in order to deliver better results and create value for people.

• The People
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• Courses

Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science

• The People
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• Courses

Google Sheet of Educational programs for technology and social justice/social good/public interest/civics/etc.

• The People
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• Civic tech catalogs

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

• The People
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• Courses

• The People
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• Organize campaigns

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

• The People
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• Courses

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
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• Adjacent Fields

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
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• Research and policy centers

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.

• The People
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• Peer-reviewed research