Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
interweave.africa
Your weekly insight into GovTech collaboration and innovation in Africa, by Luke Cavanaugh
Najemniški SOS
Resources and story-based campaign for tenants' rights in Slovenia
Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)
Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.
The Internet & Democracy Initiative
The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.
Find Local Help
"Find Local Help is a tool from CMS, which runs HealthCare.gov, that connects people to in-person, one-on-one help signing up for health insurance. Users can enter their location and get a list of local experts who can help them complete the process for free." - Ad Hoc
Rest of World
A global nonprofit publication covering the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble.
Cloudflare Athenian Project
We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
AI Intersections Database
This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.
Parliament Watch (Thailand)
An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.
Participant Advisory Council
Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.
EVoting
Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.
Center for Labor and a Just Economy (CLJE:Lab)
CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.
Pioneering Practitioners: Democratic Innovation Organizations to Watch
Recognizing organizations that support politicians to empower citizens and develop better policies for people and the planet.
AI4Democracy
The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.
Rest of World Elections AI Tracker
Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.
Global Cyber Alliance Cybersecurity Toolkit for Mission-Based Organizations
This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.
Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.
FCA Digital Sandbox
The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
We regulate financial services firms and financial markets in the UK
data.org Guide Finder
Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.
Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL)
Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela
Digital Democracy at Cal Matters
AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations
CalMatters
Nonprofit newsroom covering California with an AI/data tool to explore state government
World Health Organization Innovation hub
We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.
New Practice Lab
The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.
Rentervention
A service of the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), here to help Illinois tenants facing housing issues
PLATO Testing
Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce
Recommended Actions for Online Platforms to Improve Human Rights Defender Protection
Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat
Spatial Equity NYC
Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.
Riding Forward: Overhauling Citi Bike’s Contract for Better, More Equitable Service
This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.
Open Criminal Courts: New York Criminal Court Decisions Should be Public.
This report delves specifically into the limited publication of written decisions by criminal court judges.
Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO)
Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.
Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring
6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines
CoreData.nyc
CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.
Street Activity Sensors
8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions
NYC Smart City Testbed
The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.
The Things Network New York
Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!
Recidiviz
We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.
Miracle Messages
We offer family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots for people experiencing homelessness
The Things Network
We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.
NYC Funds Tracker
FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.