Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Cybersecurity Handbook for Civil Society Organizations
A guide for civil society organizations looking to get started on a cybersecurity plan
MetroLab Network's Data Governance Initiative
The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties
UNDP Transparency Portal
Open database and map of recipients, donors
Wicked Problems Might Inspire Greater Data Sharing
A report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University
Experts grade Big Tech on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
CDR Link
People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.
Denver Participatory Budgeting
In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
Frontiers of Digital Development Forum
Event: A critical look at the future of emerging tech
Location Privacy BETA
privacy filters for shared location links
Addressing ethical gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding care and capabilities
This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust
The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.
Cascadia 9 Game
In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!
Doing Better Work Together
Doing Better Work Together is an online learning and collaboration event for organisational innovators.
The Markup's ISP investigation data
Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.
ProofMode
Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence
Save
Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save keeps you in control of your mobile media at all times.
Coalition for Independent Tech Research
The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Nonprofit Software Development Summit
2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
Closing The Gap Conference
The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.
Nudging the Nudger: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations
A RCT on government staff customer service reps found that providing information on organ donor registration rates led to a 25% increase in signups
The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
Waterbear
Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.
Election Infrastructure Initiative report
A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials
L.A. REPAIR
The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.
WFP Innovation Challenge
We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.
Digital Wellness Check
Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.
PixelKnot: Hidden Messages
Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?
The Wildcard Workbook
The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work!
City of Sacramento Participatory Budgeting
On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.
Air Alliance Houston
Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.
GiveWell
We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar.
Effective Ventures Foundation
Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. Read our intro
Qué hacen los diputados
Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumplir con valores de gobernanza imprescindibles en nuestros días como la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.
Purpoz
Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)
NEOS Lab Academy
ALL YOU CAN LEARN – Das ist nicht nur der Name unseres Aus- und Weiterbildungsprogramms, sondern auch unser Versprechen an dich!
Advocacy Assembly
Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.
Filterwatch
Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.
Publi Ou Fake
Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.
Quid.
Um laboratório de comunicação e mobilização para causas, com foco no desenvolvimento de ações e campanhas baseadas em dados e na compreensão profunda de nichos de audiência, cultura digital contemporânea e conjuntura política.
ProtectDefenders
If you are a human rights defender at risk as a result of your work, ProtectDefenders.eu is to support you
Tarjimly
A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.
UNICEF StartUp Lab Ghana
UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.
Decolonising Digital Rights
The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.
Response Innovation Lab
Designed to open humanitarian response to startups, social entrepreneurs, researchers, and other non-traditional actors capable of contributing solutions to the resopnse
Geotarget campaigns by zip code
A short case study using ESRI to focus your campaign on the areas with the most potential supporters.
ArcGIS Field Maps
ArcGIS Field Maps is an all-in-one app that uses data-driven maps to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing, find assets and information, and report their real-time locations.
Digital Freedom Fund (DFF)
The Digital Freedom Fund supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation.