Google Sheet aggregating attendance estimates at hundreds of No Kings Day protests in the US and beyond in 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

Web- and WhatsApp-based virtual agent chatbot for residents of Bogotá

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the government

PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Voting and elections

Makers of Chatíco and other customer service chatbots

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• AI Constituent Service

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Design

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital peacebuilding

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

Insight, strategy, and coaching for mission-driven leaders & organizations

• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

Public opinion infrastructure for cities

• Sustainable cities and communities
• place-based

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

We build bespoke state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems that deliver value you can measure.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies

This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Tech for public challenges

View parliamentary debates formatted like your favourite chat app.

• WhatsApp
• Newspeak House

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Geo Pol.is about land use and conservation in the San Juan Islands

• land

• Engagement tech
• Specific digital participation instances

Operation Vulindlela is a joint initiative of the [South African] Presidency and National Treasury to accelerate the implementation of structural reforms and support economic recovery.

• Affordable and clean energy
• Clean water and sanitation
• mobility

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools
• Big listening

Pusat penelitian berfokus inovasi AI dan teknologi untuk demokrasi.

• Global South Alliance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

The European Association for Algorithmic Fairness was founded in 2023 with the goal of fostering academic research and industrial implementation of algorithmic fairness of AI applications in the context of Europe and its legislative, societal, and cultural environment.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

This pioneering project systematically documents and organizes over 5,000 resources from civil society organizations in the Global South dedicated to advancing digital rights. 

• Global South Alliance

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital rights
• Ethical hackers

A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative centers human rights and democracy in technology and policy debates.

• human rights

• Fellowships
• Civil society research outfits

Confronting digital threats to Democracies.

• Global South Alliance

• Fight disinformation

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

• human rights
• Global South Alliance

• Advocacy tech
• Policy

The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG) is a research centre within NLU Delhi and is meant to ensure that the Indian legal education establishment engages more meaningfully with communication law and policy, and offers academic contribution to communication policy making.

• Global South Alliance

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital rights

Organización ciudadana para la defensa de derechos digitales y el uso ético del internet en Bolivia

• Global South Alliance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

Citizen journalism from Sri Lanka

• Media
• Journalism
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Journalism for Citizens

• Global South Alliance

• Media
• Journalism
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

DRIF is an important platform where conversations on digital policy in the Global South are shaped, policy directions debated and partnerships forged for action.

• Global South Alliance

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

At KICTANet we strive to ensure that policy making in the ICT sector adopts an open, accessible, human rights based approach that is characterized by multi-stakeholder participation.

• Global South Alliance

• Research and policy centers
• Digital rights
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

We are a group of lawyers and technologists interested in enhancing and promoting digital rights and related freedoms in Egypt. 

• Global South Alliance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

Promoting equity for the Global South on the open Internet

• Global South Alliance

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civil society research outfits

Privacidade e Proteção de Dados no Congresso Nacional

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

African think tank that has operated for over a decade to fill a strategic gap in the development of a sustainable information society and network knowledge economy.

• Global South Alliance

• Research and policy centers
• Tech or Digital Policy

RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African digital rights violations. It serves as a repository for documenting, responding to, and rectifying various violations while assisting victims in seeking justice.

• corruption
• human rights
• cyberwar

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Digital rights

The GSA's work is mainly focused on unifying Global South NGOs dedicated to the advancement of digital rights.

• Global South Alliance

• Digital rights
• Partner networks and coalitions

Freedom Forum is a non-governmental organization, working for institutionalization of democracy, protection and promotion of human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression and right to information in Nepal.

• free speech
• Global South Alliance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism
• Digital rights

Bolo Bhi is a civil society organization geared towards advocacy, policy, and research in the areas of digital rights and civic responsibility.

• Global South Alliance

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

Games to teach digital rights, including a quiz, password generator, and security goal setting

• Global South Alliance

• Cybersecurity
• Games and gamification

Jokkolabs is an independent non-profit organization that is an open innovation ecosystem and a virtual  cluster for social transformation based on an organic community of entrepreneurs and a network of innovation center.

• Global South Alliance

• Hubs

Um podcast voltado para as mais diversas discussões entre tecnologia e sociedade. Listen on Spotify

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Journalism for Citizens

• Media
• Journalism
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Laboratório de pesquisa independente e multidisciplinar de política digital

• Global South Alliance

• Fight disinformation
• Civil society research outfits
• Polarization

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

• youth
• Global South Alliance
• human rights

• Fight disinformation
• Digital rights
• Digital literacy

Our mission is to promote fundamental rights and values ​​rooted in social justice in the face of contemporary technologies and datafication processes.

• Global South Alliance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Policy

Driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together,” the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.

• Research and policy centers

InGenius integrates CRM and telephony systems for personalized, AI-driven customer and agent experiences.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Whitepaper: How Agentic AI Will Revamp 10 Functional Layers of Public Administration

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech

VoteMatch was first developed in 1989 as a test on paper to assist voters in understanding the positions of political parties and the key issues of an election. Over time, it evolved into a digital tool, used by millions of Dutch voters to help them determine which political party aligns best with their own viewpoints.

• Voting and elections
• Predecessors
• Matching views to votes

A Nonprofit Supporting Open Code for Better Science

• General purpose open source tools
• Open science

Capture customer and employee feedback in the moment to drive positive change throughout your organization.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech