Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation UK (CDEI)
The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.
Civic Shout
It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.
Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab
Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science
Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)
National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.
Ocean Artificial Intelligence
Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.
Misinformation exposure
Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).
Schmidt Sciences
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt.
ex/ante
At ex/ante, we’ve created an experimental sandbox for inventive teams to build solutions that advance free societies and counter authoritarianism
Climate Democracy
Climate section of the Participation Playbook
Participatory Policymaking
Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.
Legislative Theater
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
SpaceX Starshield
Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:
The Participation Playbook
The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.
Commit Global
Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure
How to organize a phone bank
Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training
Democracy Labs
DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.
Vote Force
Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family
How to tell your PERSONAL STORY for community organizers
You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.
Big Stage Teleprompter
Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.
Global Data Barometer data governance module
Ranking of countries by their open government data governance processes
Global Data Barometer
Measuring the state of data for the public good
European Citizen's Prize
It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.
EEA Grants
The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.
Nadace OSF
The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.
Data of New York
@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.
Last 100 Bills
@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.
Pathways Through the Portal: A Field Scan of Emerging Technologies in the Public Interest
A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest
Civic Mastodon server roundup
Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.
Deliberative Democracy in Asia
Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)
Kenya Digital Public Works
"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"
Judicial Innovation Fellowship Program
The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.
eupolicy.social
eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.
Post.
Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.
Spatial Collective
We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them
Ethical Tech Jobs Boards Google Sheet
112 job boards, Maintained by Ted Fickes & Edward Saperia
Inform, educate, entertain… and recommend?
Report by Ada Lovelace Institute
Kevin Roose's Good Tech Awards
An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times
BVV-Planspiel
Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.
AccessMap
A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers
A Starting Point
A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani
Open Source Social Protection Platform (OpenSPP)
OpenSPP is a scalable, integrated and digital social protection information system.
The Voices of Public Interest Technology podcast
In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.
Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
SMEX Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights
SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.
Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism | Putting Local Data to Work
In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.
The World Ethical Data Forum
The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data.
Disinfo Matters
We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.