Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
#WildEye Asia
Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.
Giving Tech Labs
Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.
Bipartisan Issue Tracker
Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.
PIT Lab @Stanford
The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.
Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age
Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.
Climate Data Hub
Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional, social, and financial.
Atlascope Boston
Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.
COVID In Boston
With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.
Tor Browser for Android
Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.
ArsGames
Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.
Semantic Scholar
an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.
What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed
An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place
Studio at Cornell Tech
The Studio at Cornell Tech is a place for students, faculty and practitioners from across disciplines and industries to come together and bridge the gap between the ideas generated in an academic institution and the products that people use every day.
My Constitution South Africa
This edition of the South African Constitution has been specially created to be easy to access, read, print and distribute.
Orfox
A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser
The Policing Project
The adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.
Collective Intelligence Tools Trello
A Trello board of many collective intelligence tools like Pol.is and Loomio
The Good Information Project
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
Chad Innovation Hub
Tech hub empowering youth through innovation, entrepreneurship, Civic tech, SDG and Tech4good in Africa
Craft @ Large
Craft @ Large ...is an Intergenerational, Intercultural Hackerspace in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH
AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)
For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.
Civic Tech, Qualitative Research Career, & Service and Trauma Informed Design Resources
This is an ever-growing list of resources for folks looking to make the jump into the civic design/tech and/or applied qualitative research spaces.
LA's Angeleno Account
With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Adding additional products to users’ shopping carts without their consent.
Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA)
DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.
Take on Fake
Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.
Archive Team
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.
The Verge's Police Brutality piece
A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice
AidData
A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.
A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance: Environmental Communication
How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.
People Powered
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
Berlin Open Source
This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin
Google Find Food Support
"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins
Copia Gaming
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and society in general, professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering, science, and technology, and open discussion on the resulting issues.
Listening to Leaders survey
Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.
Turkopticon
Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
MOJ Digital & Technology
Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services
NYU Public Interest Technology Institute
A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
Benefits Data Trust
Benefits Data Trust (BDT) is a national nonprofit that harnesses the power of data, technology, and policy to provide efficient and dignified access to assistance.
Aklemio (formerly Cherrytwist)
An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.
Chile marca preferencia
Compara aquí las posturas de distintos actores políticos para Chile
Upstatement
We build digital brands and products for the future of government. A digital brand and product design studio
Defending Digital Campaigns
Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.
The Deepfake Lab
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.