Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Project Dokaz Alliance
This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.
Justice and Equity in Technology Policy course
This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.
Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.
Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO)
The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.
World Health Organization (WHO) Academy
Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world.
demokratie.today
Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
The Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship
The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.
Precarious Lives
The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.
Talk to Loop
Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).
Beirut Urban Observatory
The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.
Mapping NGOs Repairs
Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.
Big Local News
Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations
Beirut Built Environment Database
The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.
#STOPSHOTSPOTTER
A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."
Stanford University
One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.
Equitech Futures' Civic Tech Institute
The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.
Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation
"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance."
Interventions to End Online Violence Against Women in Politics
This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.
Retos
Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.
Deepfakes for good
An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women
Data Activism program for Cambridge Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program
six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community
Madica
Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.
Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards
The Schwab Foundation’s 2023 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories
WhatsApp Proxy feature
What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.
Best practices of engaging and involving people with lived experience in decision-making
Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.
United States Department of State's Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology
Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.
OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.
Kara
Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.
LearnCard
What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?
Camino
Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.
The People's Money
NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
Learning Economy Foundation
A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning
SuperSkills!
SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.
Electronic Arts Accessibility Patent Pledge
The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free
Have I Been Trained?
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Lioness
Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies UK US prize challenges
Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges
Magritte
Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images
Ocean Discovery League
Our mission is to accelerate deep ocean exploration by developing accessible systems to broaden the community of those who explore and understand the deep sea.
Low-Cost Sensors and Systems for Ocean Discovery
We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
MTA.ME
At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.
Internet Activism
A 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.