Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Cobi
Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.
Choose Your Own Fake News game
Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.
WAYS: What Aren't You Seeing?
Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists
Humanitarian Exchange Language
HXL is a different kind of data standard, designed to improve information sharing during a humanitarian crisis without adding extra reporting burdens.
Project Defenders Sustainable Emergency Grants
Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.
Spotcrime Open Crime Data Standard (SOCS)
A blog about crime in the US.
Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start
Anti-corruption SMS campaign in Albania
A text message that the government sends to citizens to in an attempt to prevent corruption.
Carl Malamud Launches Free Online Access to SEC EDGAR Records
Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.
Tele Law
Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.
MIT Solve Innovation Fund
MIT Solve is now going to start backing small, for-profit ventures taking on global issues, from access to clean water to the need for a circular economy.-
Rethink Aadhaar listserv
A group for people critically following the Aadhaar/UID project in India.
Anatomy of an AI System
An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor
New Media Ventures
New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.
Data Zetu Intiaitive
Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
Fakenews.rs
FakeNews Tragač vaš je saveznik u borbi protiv lažnih vesti. Čitajte o najnovijim dezinformacijama i prijavite lažne vesti za dalju analizu.
Crowd Counting Consortium
A public interest project to document crowds and contention in the United States.
Civic Design Tools
A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
In this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.
Oradea City Report
Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).
City Science Network
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs
Areyousafe.work
An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace
DeepMind
We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all
Displacement Alert Project Map
The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.
Practical Participation
Participation, organisational change, community development, and social technology
Global Disinformation Index
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
Aspen Institute principles for smarter regulation in cities
See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation
Global Americans
A modern take on the traditional think tank, Global Americans provides up-to-date research and analysis on key areas and issues affecting Latin America
Missing Numbers
a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't
Legal Health Check-up
Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.
Digital Health Lab
At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.
Civic Leadership Academy at U Chicago
The Civic Leadership Academy is an interdisciplinary leadership development program for emerging and high-potential leaders in nonprofit organizations and local government agencies within the City of Chicago and Cook County.
Groups.io
Boost your group communications with our inclusive platform.
Code for Sonoma County
Code for Sonoma County is a Code for America brigade or local chapter focused on improving the lives of residents of Sonoma County.
CivicActions
We help agencies and organizations successfully execute large-scale software projects using open standards technologies and Agile development methodologies.
Hack Oregon
Making Public Information, Public Knowledge
Smiile
Rejoignez votre réseau de voisinage pour collaborer, partager, recycler, covoiturer, acheter groupé, animer sa vie de quartier et réaliser des économies avec vos voisins !
How Cities Can Improve Their Procurement of Goods and Services
Book chapter by Jeffrey Liebman and Hanna Azemati
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Open Hardware Observatory
The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.