Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Projection bombing guide
“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.
International Press Institute's virtual Local Newsroom Visits
Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms
DIAL Catalog of Digital Solutions
The Catalog of Digital Solutions is an interactive online tool providing data and resources for donors, governments, procurers, and implementers to support their digital initiatives.
Fulfilling the promise of e-procurement reform
Lessons from 5 African countries
OONI Probe
Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012
European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.
Collaborative Indigenous Research
The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.
Institute for Rebooting Social Media
We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.
Green Web Fellowship
The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.
Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power
What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?
Los Desinformantes
Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.
Ethical Tech Collective
To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.
Democracy Network UK's Democracy Awards
For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.
Democracy Network (United Kingdom)
A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy in the United Kingdom.
Giving Gap
Giving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about.
Composite 2020 UK Index of Multiple Deprivation
This is a dataset that uses multiple metrics of deprivation to rank all small neighbourhood sized chunks of the UK from most to least deprived.
Superbloom Design
Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.
UpMetrics
The data analytics platform for impact-driven organizations.
Hyperaudio
A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.
Unity for Nonprofits Offer
Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.
Civic Tech Field Guide (CTFG)
The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
USAID Digital Strategy
USAID’s first Digital Strategy charts an agency-wide approach to development in a rapidly evolving digital age.
Hub for Civic Tech Impact
The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.
Anthro-Tech
We’re a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.
Data for Good Fund
The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.
Justice Media co-Lab
The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.
Penplusbytes
Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.
IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action
While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.
Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG)
The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.
2022 Survey of Federal Chief Data Officers
An annual survey and report by Data Foundation
GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good.
Narrative Change Lab
Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."
Internet Freedom Foundation
IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.
Center for Digital Democracy
The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.
Data Skills for Congress
A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff
The Opportunity Project for Cities
The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.
Digital Patrakar Defence Clinic
Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.
Panoptic - Facial Recognition Technologies Tracker
IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.
Where Technology Meets Ethics: The Humanitarian Principles and Their Problematic Relationship to Technology
The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.
Digital Humanitarian Network
Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.
Civic Design (2022 conference)
A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.
A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries
"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."
Data Foundation
Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy
Datum Awards
Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.
Voice of San Diego
Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.