Blue Ridge Labs is a place where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers. We provide space, funding, and resources to help launch and grow tech platforms that address economic inequality in NYC.

• fintech
• Decent work and economic growth

• Accelerators
• Fintech for good

Since 1999 we have supported great entrepreneurs with ideas that create a meaningful social impact, especially for people living in high-poverty communities.

• Graveyard
• Incubators

Software and data to help you fundraise, communicate, organize and optimize your campaign.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The BSD Tools are designed to help you manage (and grow) inspiring, impactful digital programs - from fundraising to advocacy, communications to analytics.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side. Last update 2019

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

"A tool to help Democratic campaigns sift through data on hundreds of millions of people across the U.S....It will help campaigns decide who to call, text, email and target with digital advertisements during this contentious and unprecedented election year and beyond."

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

bluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The data flow layer for political tech. Making data accessible to progressive tools has never been more important.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Non-binding guidance from the White House

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

We're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The Digital Government Blueprint (DGB) is a statement of the Government’s ambition to better leverage data and harness new technologies, and to drive broader efforts to build a digital economy and digital society, in support of Smart Nation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Red Blue Voice was a social network providing users with tools to broadcast their social and political messages.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Graveyard
• Connectivity
• Direct action

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Design
• Co-design

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank - A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the

The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising

• partisan

• Fundraising tools

Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Smart Cities and sensors

The right's answer to ActBlue, ActRight aggregates actions and donations to conservative causes

• partisan

• Activism aggregators

Beat the supply-chain blues with our staff picks for affordable alternative presents — plus toys, treats and tools for the holiday season.

• Civic tech gifts

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Flippable is building a data-driven, people-powered movement to flip states blue and restore our democracy.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Platform coops
• Working groups

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Build a modern movement with The Groundwork, a community engagement platform for nonprofits and social enterprises.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency