InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

• apps

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

We are a worker-owned cooperative that designs and builds technology for justice and joy, working with NGOs, academics, artists, and beyond.

• coop

• Social impact design firms

We help public sector leaders to modernise legacy applications and working practices, accelerate digital service delivery, drive smarter decisions with data and enable improved technology skills within teams.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Service delivery

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

IRI solves problems. We strengthen citizen voices and help make their leaders more accountable and responsive.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Democracy organizations

Все про ОСББ в Україні

• housing

Як депутати голосують за питання, які важливі для тебе? - They Vote for You instance in Ukraine

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Visualizes votes in Ukrainian parliament

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The company behind Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram

• commercial

• Social media

ПАРЛАМЕНТСЬКІ ДАНІ У ГРАФІКАХ ТА ІНТЕРАКТИВНИХ ТАБЛИЦЯХ (Visualizations of Ukraine Parliamentary data)

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

The world’s leading marketplace for social outcomes.

• commercial

• Evaluate impact

JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Digital security and privacy

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

Приложение позволяет создавать и заполнять формы для сообщения о нарушениях на выборах. Crowdsourced election monitoring app for iOS and Android

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

The Wikimedians of the Caribbean Usergroup is a Wikimedia user group focused on the peoples of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora, bringing together cultures and languages, and also the communities with their diasporas.

• diaspora

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

Armando.info es una comunidad de periodistas nacida en Venezuela al calor de la crisis y la censura de sus medios

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Non-profit news site serving Kyrgyzstan, including election monitoring

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Initiative of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Citizen Engagement

A digital twin solution for buildings and urban planning that works with Autodesk

• Urban planning
• Digital twins (of places)

Tu fuente de información mercantil en Internet

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. We cultivate and facilitate critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.

• history
• place-based
• culture

• Artistic interventions

Coda Story reports on major currents shaping our world from disinformation to authoritarian technologies to the war on science. Coda stays on these stories to reveal why they matter, how they are connected and where they are heading next.

• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Catalist is a social impact network and digital library where you can discover projects, events, and opportunities to change the world.

• Fieldwide resources
• Expert networks

by Okki Berendschot

• city
• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

Bienvenidxs!

• youth

• Academia
• Peer networks

This document provides a descriptive model as the basis for a shared understanding and vocabulary of the key components of digital government for the development community.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Sharing anonymized data from your ecobee smart thermostat can help scientists advance the way to a sustainable future. JOIN NOW

• commercial
• Climate action

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Data donations

The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosts democracy activists, scholars, and journalists for five-month fellowships, bringing fresh insights and perspectives to Washington, DC.

• Media
• Fellowships

The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.

• youth

• Fellowships

El Chequeador es una plataforma educativa diseñada por el equipo de Chequeado para el desarrollo de cursos virtuales sobre Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional, desinformación, fact checking y otros temas relacionados.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

The free and open global address collection

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks
• Awards and prizes

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

Open Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast

• Mapping
• Podcasts

Improving democratic politics is our mission: The Innovation in Politics Institute identifies, develops and applies innovations in politics and facilitates best practice exchange across borders and party lines.

• Participatory democracy

The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.

• Awards and prizes

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting.

• cycling

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Peer-reviewed research

DemocracyNext is an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• E-voting and I-voting

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

ClearRoad provides cloud-based solutions to keep roads well-maintained and well-managed Schedule a demo

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Blockchain-based connectivity network for decentralized wireless infrastructure

• Connectivity
• Blockchain

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.

• Climate action
• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects