Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech

Accountability · New York State

Ad Observer

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook.

Accountability · New York State

AI Journalism Lab

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

Digital rights · New York State

An Open Reference System for Connected Device Labeling

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices.

Community · New York State

BetaNYC

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

Open legislation · New York State

BillCam

Find any State or Federal bill and, if you like, share it live through social media.

Digital commons & funding · New York State

Bloomberg Philanthropies' U.S. Mayors Challenge

It is a competition designed to help city leaders think big, be bold and uncover inventive – and, ultimately shareable – ideas that tackle today’s toughest problems.

Transparency & open data · Lagos

BudgIT

Civic organisation that makes Nigerian public budgets understandable and tracks whether projects are delivered.

Transparency & open data · New York State

NYU Public Safety Lab

Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes.

Transparency & open data · Tallinn

Data For Crisis

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to…

Transparency & open data · Copenhagen

Datavejviser

Denmark's national data portal, a CKAN-based guide to public datasets from across the public sector.

Transparency & open data · Austin

congressMCP

An MCP server allowing AI agents and MCP clients to interface with the Congress.gov API.

Transparency & open data · Chicago

Philanthropy Data Commons

The Philanthropy Data Commons (PDC) is a shared sector-wide governance and technical infrastructure that fosters trust, enables new ways of managing data and information as a sector asset, creates more possibilities in our collective work…