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This is a database of 46 emerging technology organizations identified in the process of creating the Pathways Through the Portal report. These organizations were either discovered during our original research or were directly suggested by one or more of the 24 field leaders we interviewed for the report.
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Preptrack
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes
An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.
Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
Bots for Charity
Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USADirect Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
The Sentry
1420 K Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20005, USAThe Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.
Politifact
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAPolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.
Women Who Drone
Women Who Drone, West Street, Brooklyn, NY, USAA community of female drone pilots, enthusiasts, content creators and innovators. Fly, learn and contribute with us!
Open Climate Fix
240 Bellenden Road London, SE15 4BY United KingdomUses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.
Enjambre
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.
Tea Base
Chinatown Centre, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, CanadaTea Base is a DIY community art space in the basement of the Chinatown Centre in Toronto.
Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.
Google AI for Social Good
Mountain View, CA, USAAt Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.
DonorsChoose.org connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help.
Tactical Tech
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyTactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.
Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN)
621 SW Alder St, Portland, OR 97205, USAWe support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.
SIM|ED
Columbia University, New York, NY, USASIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
HeatSeek
New York CityHeat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.
Kiva
Kiva, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USASupport women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.
TechSoup
435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USATechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.
Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world
Human Rights Commission of Spokane
Hyphen-Labs
PAN Studio, Somerset House, Lancaster Place, London, UKHyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future
Skilllab is a social business developing technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate job seekers into local labour markets.
Meta VR for Good
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAMeta's collection of VR for social good stories
We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.
Data Cívica
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoMás datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.
We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all
Data for Black Lives
United States of America (the)Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.
Colloqate Design
4025 Ulloa St, New Orleans, LA 70119, USAExploring the culturally specific language of Design + Justice habitually juxtaposed at a higher frequency than chance
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
Media Matters for America is the nation's premier progressive media watchdog.
Privacy International
62 Britton Street, London EC1M 5UY, UKWe’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.
A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.
Code for America
San FranciscoCode for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design
Programa de Derechos Humanos
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoEl Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.
Forensic Architecture
University of London, Malet Street, London, UKUses a mix of cutting edge technologies including 3D modeling, data mining, machine learning, pattern analysis, and virtual reality, to conduct independent investigations into human rights abuses and police killings
Blackbaud
Charleston, South CarolinaThe world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USAThe leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
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