Research and Technology Lab

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Draft letters to sway voters and bolster support.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Make your campaign wiser with data & AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google
• free speech

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Text platform for grassroots fundraising and organizing

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

Bëj dhe shfleto kërkesa për te Drejten e Informimit (DI)

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

• The People
• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others

We help people who nurture relationships that drive change prove that their work has impact.

• Advocacy tech
• Evaluate impact
• Relational organizing

In the period between the beginning of 2021 and the middle of 2022, we investigated open-source digital infrastructures used by communities that are under the constant threat of violation of civil and environmental rights.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Environmental data

Somos una organización de mujeres que tiene como principal objetivo acompañar los procesos de mujeres indígenas y campesinas para constituir un espacio donde las experiencias femeninas confluyan en actos, espacios, instrumentos de visibilización, y nuevos aprendizajes para enfrentar las estructuras y prácticas patriarcales que nos someten.

• indigenous
• Climate action
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

This project [by Jessica Dai], in collaboration with Deb Raji, explores designing a framework for the general public to report and contest large-scale harms from algorithmic decision making systems (ADS).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

This website tells a story of how a little known legal [corporate tribunal] mechanism is enriching fossil fuel corporations with public money, delaying climate action and threatening our future.

• Climate action
• sustainability

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Drones

a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems

• Advocacy tech
• Civil society research outfits
• The craft of organizing

Relentless builds relational mobilization programs and tech to unlock the political power of the relationships we already have.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

Rally was built by organizers, for organizers, specifically to measure and scale relational programs.

• partisan
• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

The Online to Offline Strategy Group (O2O) is a worker-self-directed nonprofit dedicated to winning structural change by building people-centered, digitally-empowered movements.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

A special report by Micah Sifry

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Reports

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Resources and story-based campaign for tenants' rights in Slovenia

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Story-based campaigns

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.

• books

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The Social Practice is an ideologically-driven consultancy based in the US and Europe. We help those working for big change to strategize, communicate, and organize at scale.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Mapping tools

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Campaign organizations

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Over 860 "Coders, product managers and anyone who wants to help the party win with better technology."

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• Organize campaigns

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nosotras.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Rootcause is a not-for-profit consultancy helping forward thinking organisations win in modern digital information ecosystems.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

We are an employee-owned digital mobilisation agency. We create campaigns online that get people to take action.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

We believe that people work better together, which is why at Unionize we have made it easier than ever for you to join a trade union that represents you and your employment rights.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Data schemas and standards

Citizen Intelligence Agency (OSINT) , monitoring key political figures and institutions, provides insights into financial performance, risk metrics, and political trends

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A sophisticated website builder for political campaigns

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Website builder

A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico

• criminal justice

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

Romanian Alaveteli instance

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Сайт «Доступ до Правди» працює як уніфікована платформа для надсилання електронних запитів розпорядникам інформації відповідно до Закону “Про доступ до публічної інформації”.

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

How the Resistance is Mobilizing

• podcasts
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Podcasts

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina

• taxes

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency