Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review
US White House order including addressing AI generated public comments
Hive Mind
Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.
Responsible Technology Initiative
A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums
Carbyne Live Audio Translation
Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime
Global Fact Check Fund
The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.
Are We Together?
The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.
The Future of Privacy Forum
FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.
UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot
Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org
Future of Work in the Global South
FOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.
Digital Futures Lab
Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.
The Student Privacy Resource Center
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.
Eticas
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.
Do Open Data Impact on Citizens’ Behaviours?
This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.
Data for Development Network
Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally
hope-based comms
Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work
Github's Open journalism Collection
See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.
Hâck The Hague
The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."
Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
Human Rights Connected Activist Toolkit
A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type
Apolitical's Community Questions & Answers forum
Ask and answer the questions that matter to you as a public servant. Learn, share and connect.
GiveWP WordPress Donation Plugin
Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online
Курсы
Теплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений
Практика
Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач
Civic Tech Substack Publications
A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech
Rightly
Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
Justice Hub
An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.
Eye In The Sky
Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations
Agami
Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India
CivicDataLab
We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
Clean Insights
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.
Deceptive Design Resources
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy
Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.
Beyond Binary Code Builder
Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general
Niji eco-design site concept
Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint
The Lebanon Press Elections Edition
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
CommunityX
Create and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.
The Systemic Racism Pin
We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
BlackSpace
We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Make DMs Safe
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
The Webby Awards: Games - Social Impact
An award for the best games for social impact of the year
Common Voice
Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
HetzJaeger
A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
DataMéxico
DataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.
Seekr
News site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly