By investing in innovative new solutions driving change across the key pillars of digital inclusion, WiDEF is transforming the lives of women and girls both online and offline.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Mobimocc is an IVR-based platform that empowers rural women by providing accessible GBV education, interactive support, and real-time counseling through feature phones.

• Gender Equality
• Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

The Knowledge for Development (K4D) Foundation empowers communities and enables social inclusion through capacity building programs to advance data and digital literacy for data-driven innovations and culture.

• indigenous
• Gender Equality
• women

• Data rights

As an academic community that believes in technology’s potential to have a positive impact on public life, Missouri S&T is honored to be recognized as a member of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).

• culture
• Gender Equality

• Public Interest Tech

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

Digital Woman Uganda provides digital literacy skills to women and girls while advocating for gender-sensitive policies and digital rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Digital literacy
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

SmartRR is a virtual one stop shop for Gender Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health. We are committed to creating a safer, more supportive world for survivors and adolescent girls.

• Gender Equality
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)
• women

• Crowdsourcing

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.

• women
• Gender Equality
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Maru is a chatbot that helps you tackle online harassment

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The first virtual DEI assessment for the workplace with an emphasis on mutual accountability.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

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.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

dedicated to deconstructing representative or audience democracy and building a liquid and participatory democracy through interactive communication tools, political articulation and co-creation methodologies.

• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Including key indicators of online violence escalation and how to systematically record digital threats

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality
• reports

• Journalism

A program offered by K&L Gates for victims of nonconsensual photography based in the US and beyond

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The Cyberharassment Clinic is a program at a law school that allows students to represent victims of online harassment, cyberbullying, and revenge porn.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Courses

With a mission to combat online abuses, particularly image-based sexual abuse, while advocating for legislative reform and providing support to victims.

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy

Women at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

We Accelerate Innovations That Address Violence Against Women

• Gender Equality
• domestic violence

• Build something
• Accelerators

A MariaLab é uma associação sem fins lucrativos, sem vínculo político-partidário e com empresas do setor privado, que atua na intersecção entre política, gênero e suas tecnologias.

• Gender Equality
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding.  Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer

We are Bingwa Civic Tech Lab, a youth-led initiative based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting technically the community and civil society organisations through co-creative and collaborative processes to implement digital solutions informing decision makers and different stakeholders to improve social services

• trainings
• Gender Equality

• Hubs

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• cities
• Gender Equality

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

IT for Change is an NGO based in Bengaluru, India. IT for Change aims for a society in which digital technologies contribute to human rights, social justice and equity.

• Gender Equality
• Quality education

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Internet governance

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office

• Gender Equality
• women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots

Uli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.

• X (Twitter)
• extensions
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Social media

Association féministe intersectionnelle à l'origine de #TwitterAgainstWomen, notre objectif est de sensibiliser et d'informer sur les cyberviolences, les droits des victimes et les recours possibles.

• Gender Equality
• LGBTQI
• harassment

• Campaign organizations
• Solidarity networks
• Hotlines

An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

• Gender Equality
• reports

• Voting and elections
• Media and social media analysis
• Reports

A training workshop curriculum on how to set up an online support network, create textual and visual counterspeech content, and deploy a counterspeech campaign.

• hate speech
• trainings
• women

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Take Back The Tech! is a call to everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Gender Equality
• trainings
• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Digital literacy

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

A campaign to name more of Montevideo's streets after women

• Gender Equality
• cities

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

• Gender Equality
• women's health

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Project to create articles about notable women that do not currently exist on Wikipedia

• women
• Gender Equality
• Wikipedia

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

Reveal hidden gender bias

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

• curricula
• women
• Gender Equality

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online