Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Digital Parties: The Challenges of Online Organisation and Participation
This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world
Matomo Analytics
Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy
Red Hook Initiative
Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.
AI Forensics
AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.
Red Hook WiFi
Red Hook WiFi, a project ofย Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Urban Ocean Lab
Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.
digisec.wiki
digisec.wiki is a volunteer-run community wiki for human rights defenders to share knowledge and resources on digital security and online safety.
Video For Change
We help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.
Connect Humanity
We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society
electobox
electobox is a secure and easy to use online voting software, capable of conducting elections and referendums of any scale
Bixal
A mission-driven organization determined to improve peopleโs lives through human-centered strategies and transformative technologies. We deliver on this promise by partnering with leading federal agencies to conceive and create powerful data-driven customer experiences.
Democracy Technologies in Europe: Online Participation, Deliberation and Voting
A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023
State of Digital Inequity
The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.
EngageMedia
EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.
Assembly Voting
Our end-to-end verifiable, secure, online election technology, proves the integrity of democratic processes and verifies the accuracy of voting results, without losing flexibility and ability for customization
EngageMedia Digital Rights program
We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.
Weblate
Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.
Sequent
Sequent is a next-generation online voting platform purposely built to ensure the highest level of confidence in digital elections for election managers, voters and auditors
MyCandidate Nigeria
The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil societyโs advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)
A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the worldโs information environment
The Knight-Georgetown Institute
Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.
Alliance of Democracies
The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.
Copenhagen Democracy Summit
The Copenhagen Democracy Summit is an annual conference bringing together political and business leaders, including current and former heads of government, from the worldโs democracies.
Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model
Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.
The Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellowship
The Fellowship program is essentially a 5-month incubator program to support democracy tech entrepreneurs. Our fellows are selected through hackathon, ideathon and pitch-competitions locally in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, as well as through an online open call. All participating countries hare that they live under direct authoritarian threat.
GOV.UK Design System
Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work thatโs already been done.
Newsgradient
Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.
Open budgets
Budget and financial transparency visualization tool for NGOs.
Twitter Brigade
Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.
Obljuba dela dolg
Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.
Lestvica Transparentnosti
In cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities.
Stop Your Government
The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.
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PartyParty
PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.
Exygy
We partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.
Exygy Housing
A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.
Open Supply Hub
Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.
FOIWorks
Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.
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Disclosure logs: a best practice guide for local authorities [in the UK]
Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."
Digital Platform Commission Act of 2022
Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."
Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy
Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools ofย public interest technology.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance
The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.
ApplyWorks
Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.
FixMyStreet Pro
Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.
SocietyWorks
"A complete suite of local authority services for highways, environment and the public realm", wholly owned subsidiary of mySociety
All Things Urban
We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.