Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Housing Courts Must Change! Map
Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), India
Right To Know (R2K), Nigeria
The Right To Know (R2K), Nigeria is a dynamic organisation established in 2007 to champion the right to access officially held information at all levels of government public institutions and establishing legal standards for these rights in Nigeria.
iWatch Africa
Freedom in the World Research Methodology
Freedom House's an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories.
Partido Surrealista Mexicano
Congreso Interactivo
Brasil Controladoria Geral da União Transparência Pública
Vouliwatch
Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.
İzlemedeyiz
RUN!
A sophisticated website builder for political campaigns
Cooperative AI Foundation
CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
AI for Institutions
The question we seek to address is: can we use AI itself to help us design and build better institutions, which enhance human capabilities for collaborating, governing, and living together?
U.S. Public Assembly on High Risk Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.
Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays Meetup
Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.
FreedomBox Foundation
FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.
Open Tech Strategies
Open source dev shop that has built solutions for clients like Socrata, Case Commons, and major nonprofits
Service Design at Newspeak House
A curriculum for the Service Design 101 course with readings and case studies
Civic Futures
A scratchpad for studying and imagining revived civic engagement in the 21st century.
Institute for Security and Technology
We design and advance solutions to the world's toughest emerging security threats
Marks Out of Tenancy
Join the thousands of renters rating and reviewing their landlord, letting agent and rental properties.
Digital Society of Africa
Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.
Federation for Innovation in Democracy - Europe (FIDE)
Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table
UnBlocked Cash Project
Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge
AID:Tech
AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.
MobileCit
We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis
Constitutional AI
As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.
Polychat (Germany)
Polychat ermöglicht flüssige Crossplattform Kommunikation – niedrigschwellig und out-of-the-box: Statt einer gewöhnlichen Chat-Gruppe eröffnet ihr eine Polychat-Gruppe.
Urban Analyst
Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.
Kare
AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID
Binance Charity
We are Binance Charity, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a future where Web3 technology is used as a force for good.
PROTESTORY!
Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft
Artificial Intelligence Incident Database
Search over 2000 reports of AI harms
Заодно
Взаимопомощь и защита своих прав — это неотъемлемые составляющие гражданского общества
A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods
A free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on user motivations, activities, and problems, by Jan Dittrich
Obstáculos del acceso a la justicia en México
A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico
State-level Digital Transformation Policy Scan: Executive Orders
In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.
Zašto ne
Pratimo tačnost i dosljednost izjava i ispunjavanje obećanja, mjerimo otvorenost institucija, upoznajemo javnost s političkim procesima i političkim programima, zagovaramo otvorenost i odgovornost!
FediPlan
FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).
Bahn-Vorhersage
Bahn-Vorhersage ist ein Rankingsystem für Zugverbindungen. Es kann für alle Zugverbindung innerhalb von Deutschland einen sogenannten Verbindungsscore ermitteln.
AI Supply Chain Observatory
The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.