The National Democratic Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government

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Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

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• Awards and prizes

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Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

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Safe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.

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To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.

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Refreshingly easy-to-use fundraising software and tools for nonprofits looking for a complete fundraising solution to support their mission. Cultivate donor relationships and generate new supporters, while saving time and raising more money. Network for Good makes fundraising simple for you.

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A metadata description standard for public software

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The Civic Tech and Data Collaborative is a project of Living Cities, the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, and Code for America that brought together local government officials, civic technologists, and local data intermediaries across seven communities.

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• Playbooks and design principles

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• peace

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Can you design, write, or code? Are you an activist with an idea? You can help Los Angeles live up to its potential at Hack for LA. Everyone is welcome!

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User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

• research

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The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

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For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.

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Code for America's weekly newsletter

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Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

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It deals with central issues such as location factors and potential of urban production, future-oriented ideas for logistics in urban areas and the opportunities of additive manufacturing in urban areas.

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Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

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New innovation methods for designing public policy involving all public stakeholders

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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
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• Digital security and privacy

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Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.

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We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

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• Pro bono and volunteer

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• Competitions

BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation

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SUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.

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TICTeC Local is the annual conference from mySociety that focuses directly on the use of Civic Tech in communities and local government.

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A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.

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Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

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• Emerging tech

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

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Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

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Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

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The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

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Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.

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• Media
• Fight disinformation

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

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Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

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• Pro bono and volunteer

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

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The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

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Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

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• Peer-reviewed research

Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

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• Advocacy tech

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Next City is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.

• cities

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Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels

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An online forum for community discussion

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Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

• books

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Nesta is an innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time.

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• Participatory democracy

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• Data science for social good

How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes

• taxes

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