Projects - Specific campaigns

ForHarris Group Directory

United States of America (the)

A directory of "X for Harris" groups for the 2024 US election

Election Day to Every Day

Democracy Fund program dedicated to bridging critical gaps to support the safety, strength, and sustainability of groups working at the frontlines of our democracy.

US Election 2024

Bad Matt

Burlington, VT

A "protest plugin" that allows Wordpress administrators to set their Stripe plug-in's to credit referral payments to their own accounts.

Google Censorship

China (Zhong Guo)

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

Gazteparte

Basque Country (Euskadi)

Gazteparte es el primer espacio digital para escuchar la opinión y las propuestas de los jóvenes y trasladarlas a las instituciones públicas.

Kidmapping is an information resource for parents, human rights activists, volunteers and activists. Here you can find information about all kinds of locations of deported children in Russia, Belarus or occupied regions of Ukraine.

Global ISDS Tracker (Investor-State Dispute Settlement)

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.

Energy Profits

History-making profits. World-ending emissions.

It's Time for Supreme Court Term Limits

New York University

Award-winning video by the Brennan Center for Justice on out of touch Supreme Court justices

"Governor Barbie" social campaign

Michigan, USA

The "Governor Barbie" campaign, launched by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was more than just an innovative approach to brand building, but a significant step toward redefining and challenging stereotypes associated with female politicians.

Specific campaigns

#TakeItDown campaign

ChildFund International campaign to remove online child abuse material

2024 Webby Awards

Specific campaigns

The First Digital Nation

Tuvalu

An award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels

Save The Rainbow Flag

There have been over 40 recent bans of the rainbow flag. The Gilbert Baker Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Are Fighting Back.

Najemniški SOS

Slovenia (Slovenija)

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

housing

We're Right Here

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

local

Is your [UK] council fuelling the climate crisis?

London

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

Support CrowdTangle Through 2024 and Maintain CrowdTangle Approach

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

8M LATAM

Latin America

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.

Housing Courts Must Change! Map

New York City, NY, USA

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

housing

Obstáculos del acceso a la justicia en México

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico

criminal justice

DataIgualdad

Latin America

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

taxes

FairVote

Maryland

FairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.

Gig Workers Rising

San Jose, California, USA

Campaign to rally everyone who works on apps for a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions, and a voice in their work

labor

Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API

X (Twitter)

Reddark

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients

Reddit

Democracy Beyond Elections

United States of America (the)

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

Global Coalition for Tech Justice

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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.

2024 elections

The Systemic Racism Pin

Quebec City, QC, Canada

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

End Qualified Immunity

A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard

Washington, DC

Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.

HetzJaeger

Germany (Deutschland)

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

Students not Products

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

Specific campaigns

The Lebanon Press Elections Edition

Beirut

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

2023 Webby Awards

Make DMs Safe

In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

Decriminalize Poverty

Tennessee

This narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.

Name Reclaim

Canada

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

#DeclineNow DoorDash Driver forum

An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages

labor

מפת מחאות יום ד' 1.3.23

Israel (Jisra'el)

"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

Gas Leaks

United States of America (the)

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

Climate action

#STOPSHOTSPOTTER

United States of America (the)

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

Panoptic - Facial Recognition Technologies Tracker

New Delhi

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.