This new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimately download.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Data schemas and standards

The UK government is launching a GOV.UK Wallet and App to simplify access to services and documents like digital driver’s licences

• apps

• Govtech
• Identity

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

• apps
• fires

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

• cities
• apps

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Organizer provides community-focused organizations with the data and tools they need to foster meaningful connections and activate communities, so they can change the systems that are failing us.

• apps

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

SwipeBlue is fun and easy - it's Tinder for Democratic organizing! Just swipe blue (left) to send your friends a helpful voting text.

• partisan
• 2024 elections
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.

• partisan
• US Election 2024
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

The grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.

• apps
• partisan
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Games and gamification

Find 10 friends who don't vote and we win.

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

A Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations

• apps
• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Social networks

Nonpartisan political education app.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Voter registration

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

We seek to empower the poor to know their rights so they can receive justice and avoid exploitation and corruption in many areas of life.

• apps

• Legal tech
• Access to laws

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Mapping

Look to Speak is an Android app from Google which enables you to use your eyes to select a menu of phrases and pictures and have them spoken aloud.

• apps
• Android

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.

• apps
• Android
• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Machine vision

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Crowdsourcing

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

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• apps

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Blockchain

One-Stop Shop for All Public Services in Zambia

• apps

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

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

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• 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

• apps

• Legal tech
• Freedom of Information

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

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

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

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

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Cameras

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
• Data schemas and standards
• Blockchain

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

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

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

Nunca foi tão fácil avaliar políticas públicas!

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Qomon is the most innovative and user-friendly Mobilization platform & mobile app that powers non-profit organizations, campaigns, movements & advocacy groups worldwide to mobilize bigger using data & digital.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

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

Connect and live more safely

• apps
• crime

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
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Faça com que os direitos sociais se tornem uma realidade.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Bureaucracy tech