Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Chongqing Online Discussion Platform
Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making
Mapotic
Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.
Message Board for Leaders
A digital platform for the public to message Chinese leaders, operated by People's Daily Online
Participace 21
Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)
Mayor's Mailboxes
A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford
Cocoriko
Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.
Slowalk. 슬로워크
Korean tech and design firm
City as a Platform
Mapping solution for municipalities
Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.
Civics Unplugged
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.
🍊오렌지레터 구독하기 (Orange Letter)
A weekly newsletter about social change initiatives from Slowalk in Seoul
Exploring the transformative potential of public sector innovation labs: assembling a cabinet of curiousities
A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia
Block Party app
Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).
Question2Answer
Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.
UK Democracy Meetup
Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings
The Metagovernance Project (Metagov)
a laboratory for digital governance
Govbase
Govbase is the most comprehensive database of projects and organizations in online governance.
Observatorio de Políticas Públicas de Guayaquil
Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil
Mexiro AC
Somos una organización feminista que trabaja temas de desarrollo sostenible con metodologías de innovación y co-creación.
The Narrative Observatory
With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.
International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) Conference
The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years
bunny.money
Donation service that holds your funds in an interest-earning FDIC-insured account until you donate them, at which point the receiving nonprofit gets 100% of your donation.
Integrity Institute
We are a community of integrity professionals—the people who build platforms to be better.
Just Tech Fellowship
The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures.
Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World
The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change.
OpenRefine
OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.
Privacy Principles for Mobility Data
The Privacy Principles for Mobility Data are a set of values and priorities intended to guide the mobility ecosystem in the responsible use of data and the protection of individual privacy.
Open Path
Open Path is a platform to help care providers, governments, hospitals, and insurance companies better serve people experiencing homelessness.
Tackling the climate crisis with data: what the built-environment sector can do
ODI & ARUP report and call to action
Helping organisations navigate ethical concerns in their data practices
The ODI's white paper on ethical data policies
Data as Culture
The Open Datat Institute's art programme
Climate Change AI Summer School
The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
Alluma
We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US
Civic Design Fellowship
Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.
VoxVote
Free and easy Mobile Voting tool for ANY speaker or teacher.
PIT @ The City University of New York
Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good
Rahvaalgatus.ee
Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally
Novoville
Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prevent those harms.