The National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology is a simulated arbitration process competition that serves as an alternative and peaceful means of conflict resolution.

• students

• Academia
• Challenges
• Digital peacebuilding

At CoAfina 2025, university students from across Latin America will have the opportunity to develop collaborative solutions to scientific and educational challenges using open access data. This virtual hackathon will take place remotely from November 7 to 9.

• students

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• Civic hackathons

Transform complex content into accessible diagrams

• students
• teachers & educators

• Data visualization

"Schoolhouse Dialogues, hosted on the nonprofit tutoring platform Schoolhouse founded by Sal Khan, pairs high schoolers with opposing viewpoints to discuss controversial issues one-on-one and give feedback on each other’s civility." - Hannah Feuer, Forward

• students

• Polarization

Sway is a chat platform that connects students with differing perspectives into one-on-one conversations and facilitates better discussions between them.

• students

• Artificial Intelligence
• Polarization

零時小學校（Sch001）是聚焦在教育的 g0v 專案

• g0v
• students
• youth

• Learn about civic tech

Wiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia

• Wikipedia
• students

• Academia
• Crowdsourcing
• Open knowledge

In the context of rising concerns regarding GenAI use, a two-day deliberative process was organized and hosted at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute. A total of 17 students from 6 disciplines, gathered and deliberated on the question “How can we reimagine teaching, learning, and research methods to align with the advancements in AI and ethics?”.

• students
• Decidim

• Generative AI
• Specific digital participation instances

Generamos espacios para fortalecer la participación política y cívica de las juventudes

• youth
• students

• Civic literacy

Moot court competitions about intellectual property in Venezuela

• students

• Legal tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

All Tech Is Human’s mission is to grow and diversify the entire Responsible Tech community. The University Network serves that mission by extending opportunities for learning and career growth (and a good time!) to affiliated student clubs at colleges and universities across the globe.

• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.

• students
• libraries

• General purpose open source tools
• Open knowledge

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

• youth
• students

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy
• Board games

Creating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Mozambique.

• students
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic literacy

Incrições abertas em 08/08 - É um programa de Educação Cidadã que se baseia nos princípios de governo aberto: transparência, prestação de contas, participação cívica, tecnologia e inovação. O objetivo do programa é promover a educação cívica e estimular a sociedade civil a participar ativamente nas políticas do Estado, reconhecendo-se como agente de transformação em sua realidade local.

• students
• Quality education
• Brazil (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification

Hack Club gives teens time, space and engineering mentorship to code projects they care about and learn technical skills that build and protect democracy

• youth
• students

• Meet the others
• Build something
• In-person meetings

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

• guides
• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Direct action

Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)

• students
• Prototype Fund

• Nonprofit tech
• General purpose open source tools
• Bureaucracy tech

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Polarization

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• Academia
• In-person meetings

Primer Concurso Nacional de Estudiantes de Derecho

• students

• Legal tech

EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims made by politicians and others and rate them.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.

• students

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• Consul

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Citizen Engagement

Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.

• students

• Challenges

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

• apps
• students
• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The largest civic literacy network in Brazil

• students

• Civic literacy

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

Single Stop brings together America's most effective anti-poverty tools to create economic mobility for families and individuals.

• No poverty
• Decade-Plus Club
• Robin Hood Foundation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Design

Applications open on Tuesday, October 15 for the Coding it Forward Fellowship - a paid, 10 week summer fellowship that empowers early-career technologists to innovate in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States.

• youth
• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone