L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government

Krama App is a mobile app for responsible consumer who cares whether the business still does business in Russia or not

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Boycott or buycott

Reporter is an iPhone app for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable.

• apps

• Surveys & polling

Dispositif visant à réduire les violences sexuelles et sexistes sur les plages de la ville de Marseille.

• anti-harassment
• apps
• public space

• Issue reporting

Location-based personal safety app that integrates with Tinder, emergency services

• crime
• domestic violence
• apps

• Location
• Emergency services

"[V]ictims of violence or bullying can quietly voice activate to record an incident as it is happening and, if necessary, command the app to call the cops." - GovTech Magazine

• domestic violence
• apps

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emergency services

Ceno (short for censorship.no!) is the world’s first mobile browser that side-steps current Internet censorship methods. Its peer-to-peer backbone allows people to access and share web information in and across regions where connectivity has been interrupted or compromised.

• apps

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Circumvention tech

A mobile app to help humanitarians find their ideal role. Search for jobs and filter via organisation, location, experience and career category. Save jobs to your library, share with others and apply directly through the app.

• apps

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Online community tracking earthquakes with Raspberry Shakes: Professional grade seismograph and infrasound monitors that anyone can use to record and visualize both natural and human activity.

• earthquakes
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

Digitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"

• Ukraine
• apps

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bureaucracy tech

A Network Of Grassroots Citizens Dedicated To Tracking Government And International Aid Spending.

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Open philanthropy

EASY LAWS is a free mobile app and website in Lebanon that explains laws in everyday language, giving ordinary people access to legislation from a citizen’s rather than a legalistic perspective. With easy searches via a simplified database covering 380 legal topics, over 6000 questions and answers, explanatory notes, real life examples, a glossary of terms, and extensive legal references, EASYLAWS gives people equal opportunities and leads to the elimination of discriminatory policies and laws by empowering citizens in their quest for justice.

• apps

• Freedom of Information
• Legal tech

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

This [2023 Webby Award nominated] app allows current Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area to easily see their assigned routes, view customer stops, and navigate to each customer on the route.

• Zero hunger
• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Resource matching and sharing
• Manage volunteers

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and augmented reality

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Resource matching and sharing

What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?

• apps
• Quality education

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Data schemas and standards

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Relational organizing

Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

• apps
• students
• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

Connect and live more safely. Citizen is a personal safety network that empowers you to protect yourself and the people and places you care about. Download for COVID-19 contact tracing, access to real-time 911 alerts, instant help from crisis responders, and safety tracking for friends and families. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv88q/citizen-los-angeles-car-private-security https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/business/citizen-app-arson-wildfire-devin-hilton.html

• apps
• crime

We provide a simple search tool for state and federal legislation and regulations and assemble your results into a spreadsheet-style grid for you to view and enjoy.

• apps

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Quorum is the mobile app & digital platform to connect, engage and mobilise. ✔️ Action-focused tools for on the field & digital organising ✔️ Globally trusted, easy-to-use and available in your language

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Digital participation platforms

Nunca foi tão fácil avaliar políticas públicas!

• apps

• Matching views to votes

privacy filters for shared location links

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Location

Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save keeps you in control of your mobile media at all times.

• apps

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Cameras

Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

자신이 주운 쓰레기 종류와 개수 데이터를 실시간으로 누적할 수 있으며, 플로깅을 마치면 GPS기반 소요시간/이동거리 등의 활동 정보가 ‘나의 쓰담기록’으로 저장됩니다. 어플 사용자 간 실시간 랭킹을 확인할 수 있음은 물론, 어플에 개설된 다양한 컨셉의 플로깅 프로그램에 참여할 수 있어 보다 흥미롭게 ‘지구쓰담’을 즐길 수 있습니다. (An app that lets you track your litter collection efforts)

• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Crowdsourcing

We cut out noise and bring perspective to the news through AI

• apps
• history

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

• apps

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Interactive Voice Response
• Translation and linguistic representation

Приложение позволяет создавать и заполнять формы для сообщения о нарушениях на выборах. Crowdsourced election monitoring app for iOS and Android

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.

• apps
• reports

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

HateAid setzt sich dafür ein, dass digitale Gewalt keine Chance hat und alle Menschen sich frei und ohne Ängste im Netz bewegen können. Als Betroffene*r von Online-Hass kannst du dich kostenlos an unsere Beratung wenden.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• apps

• Solidarity networks

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

• extensions
• Facebook
• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.

• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information
• Cameras

Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).

• apps
• cities

• Issue reporting

Democratizing information about the legal system

• apps

• Legal tech
• Justice tech