Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
AP election results API
AP provides tech companies with election updates via a proprietary API that tech companies can plug into with a subscription to answer voice search queries, among others.
Media Monitoring Africa
A non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
Trestle Collaborative
Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.
Civic Things Handbook
How local governments can serve people better through effective communications and digital services.
Ad Observer
Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.
@opengovjobs
Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.
DevColor
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.
CourtListener
Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3
Leerstandsmelder
Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt
Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech
Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs
Accessibility Guide
Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.
Agile Procurement Playbook
A guide on how to apply the principles of agile to procurement.
Climate Action Tracker
We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Disability Futures Fellows at Ford Foundation
Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W
Labor Tech Research Network
We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Coded Bias
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World
How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems
Airbnb.org
Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.
ProPublica's video timeline of the Capitol attacks
Many of the perpetrators of the US Capitol attacks on January 6th uploaded videos to Parler. These videos leaked, and here ProPublica visualizes them on a chronological timeline.
Dark Patterns Tipline
Report a dark pattern today. It will help us fight back against companies usingmanipulative dark patterns to take our private information, money, andtime. You deserve respect, online and off.
Orbot: Proxy with Tor
Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.
Platform Commons
4 million Users & Beneficiaries, 22 NGOs & Social Enterprises, 16 Indian States
Ask What You Can Do: "Why local government needs more technologists and how you too can serve "
"US governments struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies and with the expectations of the public for governmental service delivery akin to what they experience in other aspects of their normal daily lives."
Measures for Justice Data Portal
Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.
Accept my IBAN
IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.
Face the Facts app
Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.
WasteWorks
One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.
WinRed
The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising
NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy
Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.
Bankers Without Borders
We are on a mission to end abject poverty around the world by powering a global "skillanthropy" movement.
Haven
Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy
Community Tool Kit
A toolkit for communities to listen, tell stories, and imagine better futures together.
Global Atlas of AVs in Cities
The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.
Open for Good Alliance
Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond
Civic Tech Forum
Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー
Disclose
Disclose is a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism.
Greater Good Studio
Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.
Technical University of Munich School of Management Center for Digital Transformation
The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.
Centering Human Rights: A Curriculum
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.
Actkathon
Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand
Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism
Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates
100 FAQs on Civic Tech, Citizen Participatory Technology, and everything in between
An extensive explainer of the civic tech field
Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.
Fiquem Sabendo
Fiquem Sabendo é uma organização sem fins lucrativos especializada noacesso a informações públicas
@LeadershipFlack
This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.
AidData Replication Datasets
AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.