Civic Tech Field Guide
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While the first generations of tech-for-good work took a solutionist approach to addressing existing problems with new technology, scholars and activists are driving growing awareness of the problems with technology itself. By exposing the negative consequences, intended or otherwise, of tech, these communities draw attention to issues with tech-centric approaches. Not all of the projects here adopt an ethics lens in their work, but we use it here for simplicity's sake.
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eurosky
EuropeEurosky is building the future of social media—open, pluralistic, and made in Europe.
Nothing Personal
Mountain View, CAAn editorial platform for independent thinkers, technologists, and creatives on the front lines of digital culture.
Code encounters: algorithmic risk-profiling in housing
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Academic research project on algorithmic risk assessments mediating access to private renting, social housing, mortgages.
RSL is an open standard that lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation.
TechEquity
OaklandA Better Tech Industry for Everyone
In collaboration with the private and public sectors, NIST has developed a framework to better manage risks to individuals, organizations, and society associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT
The Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Index provides an independent assessment of seven leading AI companies' efforts to manage both immediate harms and catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.
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Numérique en Commun[s] propose de travailler collectivement les conditions de l’émancipation des citoyens et des citoyennes en contexte numérique, à l’échelle locale et européenne.
LaSuite.coop
France 🇫🇷La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !
Caixa-Preta
São PauloCaixa-Preta é um podcast que trata de assuntos ligados ao impacto da tecnologia na sociedade.
Algorights
BarcelonaRed colaborativa que promueve la protección de los derechos humanos y la participación de la sociedad civil en el ámbito de las tecnologías de la IA.
Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance
United States of America 🇺🇸This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society
Focus on Features
ColoradoMinimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.
The European Association for Algorithmic Fairness was founded in 2023 with the goal of fostering academic research and industrial implementation of algorithmic fairness of AI applications in the context of Europe and its legislative, societal, and cultural environment.
Data Privacy Brazil (DataPrivacyBR)
São PauloOur mission is to promote fundamental rights and values rooted in social justice in the face of contemporary technologies and datafication processes.
InternetBolivia.org
La PazOrganización ciudadana para la defensa de derechos digitales y el uso ético del internet en Bolivia
Masaar
Egypt (Misr) 🇪🇬We are a group of lawyers and technologists interested in enhancing and promoting digital rights and related freedoms in Egypt.
A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.
IA Ciudadana
BarcelonaSomos una coalición de organizaciones que trabajan para defender los derechos humanos en el contexto de las tecnologías digitales.
Datavoros
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽Datávoros is a research project on data collection through mobile applications developed by governments and companies. Their analysis focuses on understanding what data is collected and how, what permissions are requested, and what security and privacy measures are in place. It is built to create accountability and transparency for users.
Aapti Institute
BangaloreWe want an equitable and just digital world where people are empowered to negotiate with technology
Participation is by invitation only, based on submission of a statement of interest or proposed talk/poster abstract.
International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI)
San Diego, CAEnsuring safe and ethical artificial intelligence is a global challenge. We must work together to achieve it.
Moedict
Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼“Moedict” is an enhanced version of The Mandarin Chinese Dictionary of the Ministry of Education.
Herstory in East Asia
South Korea (Republic of) (Hanguk or Namhan) 🇰🇷We want to show "herstory" in East Asia from local perspectives with a timeline and a map in our local languages, so that people from different regions of East Asia can learn more about the stories and rights women and LGBETQ+ have fought for.
Public Spaces Incubator
Austin, TXAn international partnership between six public service media organizations and New_ Public to develop prototypes for digital conversation spaces that offer a healthy forum for connection and increase engagement in civic discourse.
Big Tech M&A Database
AmsterdamThe Big Tech tracker for mergers and acquisitions provides an overview of companies that have been acquired by Big Tech (2019-2025). Search for a merger!
AI Safety Asia (AISA)
ManilaAI Safety Asia (AISA) is a global non-profit dedicated to the international governance of safe AI by Asia, starting in Southeast Asia.
No Tech For Apartheid is a worker-led campaign of Google and Amazon workers organizing against the companies' $1B Project Nimbus cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military.
Docs
Western EuropeDocs is the result of a joint effort lead by the French 🇫🇷🥖(DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).
Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at IIT Madras.
School for Poetic Computation (SFPC)
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is an experimental school in New York and online founded in 2013. SFPC facilitates the study of art, code, hardware, and critical theory through lenses of decolonization and transformative justice.
CyPurr Collective
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)We’re a small cryptoparty and cat-enthusiast collective. We’ve held digital security workshops all over NYC, including the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Bluestockings, and more over the years.
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information - this is not just the Federal Commissioner himself - it is above all a modern data protection supervisory authority.
"GTUACM says it aims to provide a global platform to bargain with tech companies, alongside coordinating collective campaigns and researching occupational health." - The Verge
An open-source Python library designed to assist developers in calculating fairness metrics and assessing bias in machine learning models.
Join the growing No Tech for Apartheid movement and demand that Microsoft live up to its own purported ethical values—by ending its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
Council on Technology and Social Cohesion
United States of America 🇺🇸The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.
A questionnaire for AI vendors hoping to serve Lynwood, CA's school system
Generative AI Accountability Indicators (GAIA)
740 15th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.
The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.
People vs. Big Tech
BrusselsPeople vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.
DigiAdGood
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.
Solar Protocol
BrooklynThis website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.
Bluesky
SeattleWe’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.
We propose an alternative platform model that the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. By E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, Audrey Tang
The Datasphere Initiative
GenevaThe Datasphere Initiative is a non-profit dedicated to global collaboration on technical and policy solutions for the urgent, multidimensional, and cross-border challenges of data governance.
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