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This is our collection of discrete tech-supported campaigns designed to create a change in the world. A campaign is the method in which we organize people to shift power. Technology has changed how campaigns operate, for the better (it's never been easier or cheaper to reach and organize large numbers of people) and the worse (private data has been used to profile voters, and technology is accused of facilitating shallower relationships between supporters).
See also our campaign tools collection or learn about campaign organizations.
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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.
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.
The First Digital Nation
TuvaluAn award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels
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.
"Governor Barbie" social campaign
Michigan, USAThe "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.
ChildFund International campaign to remove online child abuse material
History-making profits. World-ending emissions.
Award-winning video by the Brennan Center for Justice on out of touch Supreme Court justices
Najemniški SOS
Slovenia (Slovenija)Resources and story-based campaign for tenants' rights in Slovenia
![Is your [UK] council fuelling the climate crisis?](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ctfg-airtable/screenshots/rec2opTaK3Yl8q3aE/httpsplatformlondonorgisyourcoun)
Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies
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.
An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook
8M LATAM
Latin AmericaEl 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.
Obstáculos del acceso a la justicia en México
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico
DataIgualdad
Latin AmericaRevisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina
FairVote
MarylandFairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.
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
Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API
an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients
Democracy Beyond Elections
United States of America (the)A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
Decriminalize Poverty
TennesseeThis 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.
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
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe 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.
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages
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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
#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."
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.
The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Redes Ayuda
Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaDerechos Humanos en Venezuela #RedesAyuda #ONG
AidAccess
United States of America (the)Online consult for abortion pills by mail
Eduplana
NigeriaEduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.
La Constitución es Nuestra
Santiago, ChileProyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
Take Back The Tech! is a call to everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women.
97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.
Public Bank LA
Los Angeles, CABanking as a public utility is a proven model worldwide. Public banks keep money local and cut costs by eliminating middlemen, shareholders and high-paid executives.
Archiving local political websites
United States of America (the)Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.
Count the Nation
Los Angeles, CAThe USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.
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