Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Black Census Project
Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
Charles F. Kettering Foundation
Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.
Bill To Text
BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.
Transformative Media Organizing project
The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.
Debattenportal
Du hast Ideen, die unser Land in eine bessere, gerechte Zukunft führen. Mutig und klar. Mit Lust auf morgen?
Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.
Caravan Studios
We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.
Echoing Green
We find the brightest leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible. And then we do everything we can to make sure they succeed.
Open Oakland
OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.
Michigan Moonshot
The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.
Digital Integrity Fellowship
The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.
PeopleMovers
Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.
General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
Format for exchanging static public transit information.
Collection of eIdentity and eSignature solutions
A resource from Joinup
Aspiration Developers Summit
Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.
Highrise
An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.
Assembl
Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.
Jamnevisi
“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.
District Info NYC dashboard
Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.
Patch
The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites
Before the Storm
A game of forecasts and action
Listening Post Collective
The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.
March for Our Lives
Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.
MoveOn Petitions
Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.
Open Referral
We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.
Design Action Collective
Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations
Atvirasteismas
The aim of the tool is to help Lithuanian citizens to understand how courts and judges work in their country. Transparency International chapter
Nava
Nava is a public benefit corporation creating software to improve how our government serves people.
Aptivate
Accessible web and mobile software for NGOs and development agencies
Burocratas YouTube channel
Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.
Shuttleworth Fellows
The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.
Johnson & Johnson-Yale Open Data Access Project
As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.
Wahllokalfinder
Hier findest du eine Übersicht aller Wahllokale: Wähle deine Stadt aus, gib deine Adresse ein und finde dein Wahllokal in wenigen Sekunden.
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.
Election Tools
Free, practical resources for election officials
Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) Sierra Leone
To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.
Thinking about GovTech: A brief guide for policymakers
(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.
Network for Good
Refreshingly easy-to-use fundraising software and tools for nonprofits looking for a complete fundraising solution to support their mission. Cultivate donor relationships and generate new supporters, while saving time and raising more money. Network for Good makes fundraising simple for you.
OpenGov Open Data
OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential.
Library of Congress Machine Readable Cataloging
The MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.
Tumblr
Liba Rubenstein, Director of Social Impact and Policy at Tumblr, explores how Tumblr's versatile platform can help nonprofits, libraries, and other changemakers tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement, and drive measurable impact.
Megaphone podcast
MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement