Civic Tech Field Guide
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Political Data Intelligence (PDI)
Los Angeles, CAPDI has partnered with progressive campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy groups for more than 30 years to help them win on Election Day.
PowerSwitch Action
Oakland, CaliforniaPowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.
Gig Workers Rising
San Jose, California, USACampaign to rally everyone who works on apps for a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions, and a voice in their work
Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?
ProgressiveActs
BrusselsProgressiveActs is a start-up that supports grassroots civic and political mobilization through a package of services and advanced technological tools.
Action Network
United States of America (the)Mobilize communities, raise money, and engage supporters with tools built for teams just like yours.
The Worker Agency
Berkeley, California, USAStorytelling AND advocacy campaigns for movements.
an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Resource Library
Washington, DCDatabase of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance
PowerLabs
United States of America (the)PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
AI Forensics
ItalyAI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.
EngageMedia
ThailandEngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.
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PartyParty
BerlinPartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.
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El Avispero
BogotáWe are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.
Datadat
EuropeWe equip progressive leaders and movements with innovative digital solutions to make social change possible
WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.
Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.
A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects
An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages
Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company
RosKomSvoboda
Russian Federation (the)RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.
NYC OpenRecords
City Hall, Centre Street, New York, NY, USAWelcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.
Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.
K-Monitor
Hungary (Magyarország)We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.
Govspend.ng
55 Moleye Street, Alagomeji-Yaba, Lagos, NigeriaWhile the Open Treasury portal hosts all federal daily treasury reports, GOVSPEND.NG, a platform powered by BudgIT, simplifies the treasury report for citizens and Civil Society Organizations to access, monitor and understand federal government’s real time expenditure.
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.
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Israel"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Cooperative Impact Lab
Washington, DCFounded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.
Movement School
KnoxvilleWe aim to translate activist power into political power by changing how we develop campaign leadership.
The Energia Foundation's work centers around organizing large-scale demonstrations, experiences, and proof-of-concept installations that can easily translate into organized institutions to create long-lasting, sustainable change.
Reclamo
United States of America (the)Help Workers Recover Stolen Wages Free, Safe, and Simple
The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.
Gas Leaks
United States of America (the)Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation
Civic Shout
United States of America (the)It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.
Democracy Labs
San FranciscoDemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.
“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.
Internet Freedom Foundation
New DelhiIFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.
Civic Nation
Washington, DCCivic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.
Transparency International Moldova
Str. 31-August 1989, Nr. 98, birou 205, Chisinau Moldova MD-2004Transparency International chapter
ThaiPublica
62 Ram 5 seperate 3 Rd. Bangkhen, Bangkok 10220 Thailandสำนักข่าวออนไลน์ไทยพับลิก้า ThaiPublica.org ก่อตั้งในเดือนกันยายน 2554 นำเสนอข่าวสืบสวนสอบสวน เน้นประเด็นตรวจสอบความโปร่งใสภาครัฐ ความโปร่งใสภาคเอกชน และการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน ดำเนินงานโดยทีมงานนักข่าวอาชีพที่มีประสบการณ์ในวงการรวมกันกว่า 60 ปี
Transparency International EU is part of the global anti-corruption movement, Transparency International, which includes over 100 chapters around the world. Since 2008, Transparency International EU has functioned as a regional liaison office for the global movement and as such it works closely with the Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin, Germany.
Transparency International - Initiative Madagascar
Lot II M 98 B (2e Etage) - Antsakaviro, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar
Transparencia Venezuela
Av Andres Eloy Blanco, Chamber of Commerce Building Caracas, Floor 2, Office 2-15, Caobos, Caracas 1050, VenezuelaTransparency International Venezuela
Transparency International Hungary
Transparency International Hungary, 1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 30. 4/2Transparency International chapter
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