Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Critical Infrastructure Lab
the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.
Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
Partimap
PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.
K-Monitor
We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.
Koltsegvetes Zuglo
Budget explorer for the Municipality of Zugló's 2019 budget built by K-Monitor
Superbloom's Design Coaching
We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.
Bitlab Barcelona
Dissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.
Tactical Urbanism Materials and Design Guide
An open guide promoting participatory urban planning
HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping
We have a four step validation process to ensure that the data created for emergencies like the current Turkey and Syria earthquake response is fit for use.
Sustaining and Scaling Civic and Government Technology
A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."
The Public Good Projects
We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.
Master on Artificial Intelligence for Public Services (AI4Gov)
A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Smart Cities Certificate
The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
Immigration Policy Lab
With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.
Federal Innovation Council
The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.
Boston University Initiative on Cities
The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.
LocalView
LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.
Case Western Reserve Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact.
The Role of Community Engagement in Urban Innovation Towards the Co-Creation of Smart Sustainable Cities
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.
Public Interest Technology University Network: Understanding the State of the Field in 2021
This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy
Building a Culture of Innovation in Government
This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.
Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings
A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset
Technology and the Public Interest (2022 book)
In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.
Canòdrom
Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital
Public Interest Technology, MS at Arizona State University
Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.
Smart Futures Lab
Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.
Empathy Helps Counter Hate Speech
A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future
Maai Makwa (My Water)
Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality
Election Violence Tracker
Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.
Out In Tech Digital Corps
Out in Tech Digital Corps provides web services to LGBTQ+ activists and social entrepreneurs around the world.
Out In Tech
Out in Tech is the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders.
Funding For Real Change
We provide resources to reimagine project-restricted giving
Redefining rigour: using stories to evaluate systems change?
A series of articles interrogating the concept of rigor in the context of impact evaluation in our work, by Keira Lowther
Team CommUNITY
Want to join the global digital rights and internet freedom community? We providing events, services, job board, community spaces, and more!
Digital Rights Job Board
The Digital Rights Job Board features diverse opportunities from organizations, grassroots networks, companies and other types of entities from 130+ countries working at the intersection of technology, human rights, and social justice
Storytelling for Systems Change
A report: How can stories help us change systems?
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
Aim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.
Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian Emergencies
A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub
UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH)
The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.
Public Technology Leadership Collaborative
The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.
Govspend.ng
While the Open Treasury portal hosts all federal daily treasury reports, GOVSPEND.NG, a platform powered by BudgIT, simplifies the treasury report for citizens and Civil Society Organizations to access, monitor and understand federal government’s real time expenditure.
Filling the Progressive TikTok Gap
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.
Cooperative Impact Lab
Founded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.
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"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Reuters uses Airtags to investigate recycling program
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
Tools for Thought Map
Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.