Crisis Response is a place on Facebook where you can find information about recent crises, use Safety Check to connect with friends and loved ones during a crisis, give or find help to people in the affected area, and create or donate to fundraisers to support recovery efforts.

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Matras 2 offers a range of services, related to matters such as vehicle registration, immigration and visadocumentation, and loss of documents.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Find A Legal Aid Adviser is an online tool through which users can find a legal aid adviser or a family mediator.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Will Star facilitates the online creation of a will. Upon completion, users can download, print and sign the document.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Artistic interventions

The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Emerging Tech Organizations

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

PROGRAM ON PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

• reports

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Justika offers real-time legal support over the telephone for a broad range of problems, such as marriage, inheritance, and employment.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Helpline Law connects people with lawyers and law firms as per their needs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Internet access in major global subway networks

• cities
• mass transit
• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Rechtwijzer is an online dispute resolution site. It provides legal remedies and online tools to help parties settledisputes without a lawyer.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

DilSeWill is an online platform where users can create a will, and have it mailed to them after completion

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Civil Resolution is an application for online dispute resolution. It helps resolve small claims and strata property disputes.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.

• workshops

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

We are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech

Okthanks is an independent organization providing research and product design services for open source technology. We unite with a mission to leverage technology for social good.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

NYC Digital Safety: Privacy & Security is a partnership between New York City’s three library systems and METRO, a library resources council serving NYC and Westchester County

• libraries

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Users can use the guided workflows to find legal assistance.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.

• criminal justice

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Pro bono and volunteer

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Hardware

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings