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Lever for Change

Lever for Change

Lever for Change connects donors with problem solvers to find and fund bold, effective solutions to accelerate social change.

Technology Modernization Fund

Technology Modernization Fund

GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC

We drive modernization in federal IT that better serves agencies and the American public.

Core Values Awards

Core Values Awards

Denver

IAP2 program celebrating excellence in public participation

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Latinoamérica

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Latinoamérica

Latin America

Nace como una forma de contribuir a desplegar las habilidades y competencias necesarias en personas y agrupaciones de diversa índole que desean ser protagonistas de la construcción del futuro para sus comunidades, territorios y países.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) USA

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) USA

Denver

IAP2 USA is a nationwide organization that leads, advances and advocates for best practices in public participation. It is a home and community for people who believe good decisions can be made together.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Australasia

Australia 🇦🇺

As the peak body for the community and stakeholder engagement sector, IAP2 Australasia, believes that engagement, when done well, improves environmental, social and governance outcomes and increases trust in the democratic process.

IAP2 Training Programs

IAP2 Training Programs

Denver

IAP2 carries out its mission to advance and extend the practice of public participation by organizing and conducting professional development activities to serve the learning needs of members.

AI Policy Hub

AI Policy Hub

Berkeley, CA

The AI Policy Hub is an interdisciplinary initiative that trains researchers to develop effective governance and policy frameworks to guide artificial intelligence, with a goal to help policymakers and other AI decision-makers act with foresight.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

Denver

Our mission is to promote and advance public participation / community engagement globally through targeted initiatives that are guided by culturally adaptive standards of practice and core values.

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) South Africa

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) South Africa

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

Promoting excellence in public participation in Southern Africa

Fairness Without Categories: Enabling Collective Action for Algorithmic Accountability

Fairness Without Categories: Enabling Collective Action for Algorithmic Accountability

Berkeley, CA

This project [by Jessica Dai], in collaboration with Deb Raji, explores designing a framework for the general public to report and contest large-scale harms from algorithmic decision making systems (ADS).

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Indonesia

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Indonesia

Jakarta

IAP2 adalah asosiasi anggota internasional yang mempromosikan dan meningkatkan praktik partisipasi publik atau pelibatan masyarakat, yang menggabungkan individu, pemerintah, lembaga, dan entitas lain yang memengaruhi kepentingan publik di seluruh dunia.

Hypha

Hypha

Hypha is an open source submission management platform to receive and manage applications for funding.

Chat for GenAI Accelerator '24

Chat for GenAI Accelerator '24

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility.

kidmapping

kidmapping

Kidmapping is an information resource for parents, human rights activists, volunteers and activists. Here you can find information about all kinds of locations of deported children in Russia, Belarus or occupied regions of Ukraine.

UNHCR chatbots

UNHCR chatbots

To help build a better future for refugees, UNHCR’s chat services suit their preferences, meet their needs, and safeguard their data

Civic Technology Collaboration

Civic Technology Collaboration

Taipei City, Taiwan

Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.

Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA)

Taiwan Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA)

Taipei City, Taiwan

The moda is committed to promoting suitable digital tools and open mindsets through building resilience and co-creation, powering Taiwan’s shift from a digital island to a global model of digital democracy and innovation.

Privacy Stack

Privacy Stack

Massachusetts

An open source starter app that comes with user accounts that include: data access, do not sell, data deletion, undo sign up, and other features.

Voices of Venezuela

Voices of Venezuela

Latin America

Voices of Venezuela (VOV) is committed to empowering Venezuelan migrants through innovative, AI-powered solutions and community-driven initiatives.

Chat for Impact

Chat for Impact

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

WhatsApp community hosted by turn.io

100 Days Of AI

100 Days Of AI

Learn AI skills in 100 days with daily bitesized lessons.

Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST)

Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

We are a charity helping organisations use digital for social good

Democracy Network (Taiwan)

Democracy Network (Taiwan)

Taipei City, Taiwan

Connecting the international community’s and Taiwan’s digital development and democratic governance experiences, leveraging the power of democracy networks to promote civic technology and decentralized autonomy, enhancing network development digital resilience.

AI in grantmaking peer group meeting

AI in grantmaking peer group meeting

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI.

527 Explorer

527 Explorer

United States of America 🇺🇸

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

Karachi Chal

Karachi Chal

Karachi

Your AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.

Bocoup

Bocoup

Massachusetts

We partner with tech companies, nonprofits, and other institutions on projects that promote a more just digital landscape for all users.

FloodLight

FloodLight

Pakistan 🇵🇰

A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

form-extractor-prototype

form-extractor-prototype

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

A prototype tool that extracts the structure of a form from an image or PDF and generates a multi-page web form in the GOV.UK schema. by @timpaul

Querido Diário

Querido Diário

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

Diários oficiais dos municípios brasileiros em formato aberto para a livre consulta da sociedade civil.

Capellic

Capellic

San Diego, CA

We build durable, impactful websites for world-changing nonprofits.

mosip16.9

mosip16.9

Bangalore

We envision mosip16.9 to be a collaborative hub where diverse perspectives converge to contribute to the current discourse on digital identity.

Digital Identity in Public Benefits Research

Digital Identity in Public Benefits Research

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Digital Benefits Network (DBN) at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University, and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) are collaborating on a two-year-long collaborative research and development project to adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to better support the implementation of public benefits policy and delivery while balancing security, privacy, equity, and usability.

Global ISDS Tracker (Investor-State Dispute Settlement)

Global ISDS Tracker (Investor-State Dispute Settlement)

This website tells a story of how a little known legal [corporate tribunal] mechanism is enriching fossil fuel corporations with public money, delaying climate action and threatening our future.

Exiled Media Toolkit

Exiled Media Toolkit

Washington, DC

Our Exiled Media Toolkit, produced in partnership with the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), brings resources to journalists and outlets established or preparing to be in exile, as they report on communities and events in their home countries.

When 'doing ethics' meets public procurement of smart city technology – an Amsterdam case study

When 'doing ethics' meets public procurement of smart city technology – an Amsterdam case study

Amsterdam

[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized

MOSIP

MOSIP

Bangalore

MOSIP offers countries modular and open-source technology to build and own their national identity systems.

Ballots and Audits Standards for Election Excellence

Ballots and Audits Standards for Election Excellence

Chicago, IL

The nonpartisan standards define excellence in U.S. election administration for local election departments across the country.

Future of Constituent Engagement

Future of Constituent Engagement

United States of America 🇺🇸

POPVOX Foundation is working with legislative offices, support institutions, civil society, academics, and tech innovators to explore the future landscape of two-way engagement between representatives and constituents.

Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests

Surveillance Defense for Campus Protests

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

Enrolling Citizens: a primer on archetypes of democratic engagement with AI

Enrolling Citizens: a primer on archetypes of democratic engagement with AI

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY

Primer by Wanheng Hu and Ranjit Singh

Estimativa de Público – Manifestação de 25 de fevereiro de 2024 em São Paulo

Estimativa de Público – Manifestação de 25 de fevereiro de 2024 em São Paulo

Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that.

SAMbot

SAMbot

Canada 🇨🇦

Our SAMbot project measures abusive content that candidates and political parties receive online during Canadian elections.

Samara Centre for Democracy

Samara Centre for Democracy

Canada 🇨🇦

Humans of the House has received national media coverage and has been the #1 show in the Government category for several weeks on Apple Podcasts where it has also been featured as a New & Noteworthy Special Series.

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