Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

We partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• Build something
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Cybersecurity

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Build something
• Get funding
• Fieldwide resources

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Build something
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Procurement

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.

• Build something
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Incubators

PolicyLab Africa uses Human centered design to imagine sustainable futures.

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures

• Build something

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

European Institute for Participative Democracy

GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM. AWARD-WINNING FILMS.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Supporting specific public sector efforts from outside government
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency