Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Advancing Democracy Fellowship
This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.
Hearken's Engagement Management System
Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.
Consumer Reports Share My Story
A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills
Tech Matters
We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.
Beat Academy
Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.
Hearken Switchboard
Hearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.
Custodianship in the Urban Commons
BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.
“Seeing” Neighborhoods through “Big” Data
Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia
The Collective Intelligence Project
Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.
Donation Campaign for Earthquake in Turkey
Ahbap crowdfunding page with over 57,000 donations
The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University
Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.
Using no-code to build and grow your tech for good startup
A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures
Task Force: Digital Organizing at HIIG
The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.
Public Interest AI world map
This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.
Platform://Democracy
The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values
Public Interest AI explainer site
A project map of Public Interest AI and related research
SmartResponse
Informed Giving = More Effective Relief
GovInfo
GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.
Data Commons
Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More
Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources
The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.
Mobile Intelligence Alliance
Secure the Future of Mobility
Grist Cities + Solutions
Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way
Pursuit
An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."
AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database
An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media
UN General Assembly resolutions on ICTs for Sustainable Development
A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development
Needslist
NeedsList matches community needs with offers of support, making humanitarian assistance and disaster response cheaper, faster, and more targeted.
Tech Stewardship Practice Program
A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice
All Tech Is Human
All Tech Is Human is strengthening the Responsible Tech ecosystem with multiple stakeholders, disciplines, and perspectives so we can tackle wicked tech & society problems.
Deon
deon is a command line tool that allows you to easily add an ethics checklist to your data science projects. We support creating a new, standalone checklist file or appending a checklist to an existing analysis in many common formats.
All Tech Is Human Slack
Our Slack workspace helps individuals in the Responsible Tech ecosystem connect with one another, discuss research, share events, learn about careers and job opportunities, and more. In addition, we have channels for specific locations to allow for people to collaborate based on vicinity.
Convey911
Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.
RapidDeploy
Realtime data. Unified Public Safety workflow. Reduced emergency response times.
Mapping Healthy Digital Public Spaces
We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.
Let's Talk Vaccines
A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
Congressional Directory
This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files
BARI Conference
BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.
Global Digital Development Forum
GDDF 2023 builds on three years of successful global virtual forums that engage over 3,000 participants each time and feature keynote speakers from USAID, tech companies, and across the digital development ecosystem.
First AI-written speech delivered by US congressman
Representative for Massachusetts Jake Auchincloss used ChatGPT to help introduce legislation supporting AI research
CS Fund Just Transitions
CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.
Code for Dallas
Code for Dallas is an official Code for America Brigade in Dallas, TX working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.
Democracy Classroom
Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.
Data Justice Conference
Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online
Gas Leaks
Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation
Gov UK Notify
GDS service for government users to notify constituents