Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
CYRILLA (Collaborative Cyberrights Research Initiative and Localized Legal Almanac)
The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.
SXSW Cities Summit
The Cities, Government & Politics track focuses on innovative city planning and development, privacy and policy issues, and how politics plays a role in shaping policy in government.
Wahlkarte
Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.
Nonprofit Journalism Issues Around Impact
A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel
GOOD.is
News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news
Civic Power: Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.
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A digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact.
Europol Trace an Object
The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case
Tech for Good
We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.
Direct Democracy Database
The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.
Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.
M-Haki
M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.
openDemocracy
Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.
Labor Research Action Network Mailing List
The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.
Make a Difference Asia
Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.
Participa Portugal
A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal
Village Capital Accelerators
Entrepreneurs, sign up for our Abaca platform to get notified when a relevant accelerator opens up
Urban Systems
Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.
MoCho: Mobility Choices and Societal Impacts
This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.
Center for Open Data Enterprise
CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.
Sourcemap
Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way
US Web Design Standards
Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.
Blue Labs
We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.
Bouge Ma Ville
L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.
UN Global Pulse Lab Kampala radio analysis with machine learning
We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.
Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS)
To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.
Terrastories
Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.
The Open Law Platform
The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.
Climate-tech Slack
An online forum for community discussion
Vilsquare
Vilsquare strives to achieve digital transformation in different communities across Nigeria and all Africa, through use of open science technologies and methodologies
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
Ashoka Foundation
A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.
Civic Capital
Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.
Prototype Fund
Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.
g0v Summit
g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots
Salsa Labs
Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.
Open Cities Accra
The Open Cities Accra Project seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project will also involve the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteman and Alajo.
CivTechSA
The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents
Right To Be (formerly Heartmob)
Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.
Civic Studios
The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.
Translators Without Borders
Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.
Placemeter
Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.
PoliMonitor
A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.
Silicon Valley Talent Partnership
Established in 1993, Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region’s economy and quality of life.
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Clearspending Russia
Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государственных средств.