Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Careful Industries
Careful Industries gives good advice to leaders navigating the intersections of social justice and technology.
Joining the Dots
"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in the extractive sector, with the aim of identifying possible conflicts of interest, corruption or misuse of public office.
CivTech Scotland
CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better
NHS Transformation Directorate
Transformation to improve health and care for everyone
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Canada
Take advantage of world-class training and develop your skillset, join a like-minded community, and access member discounts when you join IAP2 Canada.
International Association of Algorithmic Auditors (IAAA)
The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.
Communiti Labs
Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.
First Aid Democracy Toolkits
As a citizen-centric European civil society organisation, ECAS developed its First Aid Democracy toolkit aimed at equipping citizens and civil society organisations with knowledge and practical tips for maintaining a healthy democracy.
ECAS Voting App
Select a country and language to get all the practical information on how, when and where you can register on the electoral roll, as well as voting possibilities in your country of residence.
Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award honours innovators within or associated with the public sector.
Statefree
Welcome to the first global community for stateless people and their allies. Together we empower stateless people.
Artificial Intelligence: Its potential and ethics in the practice of public participation
This research brief explores how public participation practitioners might encounter AI tools; examines the risks, opportunities and uncertainties these tools present; and offers ethical considerations to guide their use.
Social Change Lab
Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems
StuFiS
Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)
Code for America AI Studio
Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."
Media Impact Monitor
a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.
Open Source Collective
Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.
Zulip
Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams
DonorSee
Give directly to worthy causes and get a video update showing the difference you make.
Meta's Community Forum on Generative AI
Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method
Orbis Project
Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales
Collective Alignment team at OpenAI
[A] "team consisting of researchers and engineers that will...Implement a system for collecting and encoding public input on model behavior into our systems"
Democracy Capital
Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)
Just Register
Our assisted [UK] voter registration programme Just Register supports people to get onto the electoral roll. It addresses the practical barriers that we know hinder people from getting registered in a timely way. After signing up on Just Register, everyone is signposted to the gov.uk form. From this point, they receive personalised support via peer-to-peer texting and calls to make sure they follow-through completing their registration with their council.
Can I Vote?
This is a joint initiative run by Citizens UK, Migrant Democracy Project and Just Register. Together we are helping migrants in the UK to get registered to vote.
Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act
Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.
EU Elections Information Sharing and Analysis Centre
Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend democracy.
Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign
CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs)
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector about root causes, incidents and threats, as well as sharing experience, knowledge and analysis. In many EU Member States, ISAC or similar initiatives exist.
The Open Gov Challenge
The Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.
Alliance4Europe
We support groups of actors to come together to cooperate. Then we develop the effective digital tools for impact. Then, we roll out campaigns for impact with those communities.
Mitigating the Risks of Political Microtargeting
Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation
e-Governance Academy
The e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.
Panoramic
Our platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.
SoJo Europe
This grant programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.
Sidekick
In plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library.
As Winter Falls / Children Under Attack
A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF
The AAPI Nonprofit Database
The AAPI Nonprofit Database is an interactive resource to find and connect with AAPI organizations
Undo The Firewall
Bring Independent News to Russians (by adding code to your website to display news that Russian authorities cannot block)
Energy Profits
History-making profits. World-ending emissions.
Six Degrees Podcast with Kevin Bacon
A podcast bringing you one degree closer to nonprofits making an impact in the world.
Online to Offline Strategy Group
The Online to Offline Strategy Group (O2O) is a worker-self-directed nonprofit dedicated to winning structural change by building people-centered, digitally-empowered movements.