Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Digital Green
Digital Green is a global development organization that empowers smallholder farmers to lift themselves out of poverty by harnessing the collective power of technology and grassroots-level partnerships.
Civic Tech Impact Tracker
The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics
Accessibility Personas
The GDS Accessibility team has created 7 different accessibility personas. Each persona has different access needs.
The Influence Industry Project
Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
Decidimos Monterrey
En Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.
California Cradle-to-Career Data System
A statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.
A Voter's Guide: 7 tips to detox your data
Part of the Data Detox Kit
Center on Rural Innovation
As strategists, advocates, connectors, and champions, we collaborate with members of our Rural Innovation Network to launch initiatives and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and tech job creation in the places they call home.
All Hands
Think of us as talent matchmakers for democracy (but with less swiping and fewer awkward one-liners)
Global Right to Information Rating
A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws
Building the Public Interest Technology Infrastructure of the Future
How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology. By Jenny Toomey & Latanya Sweeney
Election Official Stories
We share stories from election officials doing fantastic work.
What Builders Struggle With While Innovating With Data Governance
Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance
How to Citizen
Listen to the How to Citizen Podcast where Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power.
Africa Regional Ambassadors Programme (RAP)
A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.
Campaign Workers Guild
We are campaign workers from across the United States who are committed to improving our work conditions, empowering organizers, and promoting healthy career longevity.
10 Principles for Workers' Data Rights
UNI Global Union's Top Ten Principles for Workers' Data Rights fills an enormous gap with regards workers' rights in the new world of work.
Apolitical Microcourses
Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.
Akvo Foundation
Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme
Ethical OS Risk Mitigation Manual
Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.
Civstart
CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. info@CivStart.org 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
CivicPlus
A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.
Black Women In Data
the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals
IDC Smart Cities Awards
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
Judgment Call
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.
Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech
We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics
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.
Digital Lab Fellowship at Consumer Reports
The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world
Day One Project
The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration. The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations
Digital Democracy program (Democracy Fund)
Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.
Just One Giant Lab
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.
BoardTrack
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
Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
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.
Mastercard City Possible
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.
People Powered Global PB Hub
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.
Creative Bureaucracy Festival
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.
PlanX (UK)
Plan✕ is a platform for creating and publishing digital planning services. It aims to make planning less hard work, for everyone.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott: 100 Days of Action Tracker
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.
The Boston Globe's Biden endorsement
In this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)
An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
Whose Streets report
Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
Disability Inclusion Toolkit
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.
100 Climate Policy Breakthroughs
Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world