• youth

Apathy is Boring is a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy. Learn more

• youth

• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

Agency For Urban Change

• youth
• city
• place-based

• Participatory democracy
• User experience

The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.

• youth
• surveillance
• criminal justice

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

Fondation Botnar works with and for young people towards a world that fulfils their rights and supports their wellbeing.

• youth
• city
• mental health

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Acerca y conecta a los mejores ciudadanos líderes con una política responsable, que actúan con compromiso y vocación por el bien común del Paraguay.

• youth
• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Generamos espacios para fortalecer la participación política y cívica de las juventudes

• youth
• students

• Civic literacy

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

• youth
• students

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy
• Board games

Creating space to build a democracy for all

• students
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic literacy

Hack Club gives teens time, space and engineering mentorship to code projects they care about and learn technical skills that build and protect democracy

• youth
• students

• Meet the others
• Build something
• In-person meetings

Gazteparte es el primer espacio digital para escuchar la opinión y las propuestas  de los jóvenes y trasladarlas a las instituciones públicas.

• housing
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Specific campaigns

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.

• youth
• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns
• Participatory memorials

A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF

• youth
• Ukraine
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Story-based campaigns

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Demokratie braucht junge Stimmen

• youth

• Media
• Participatory democracy

Ersilia Est Une Plateforme Collaborative D’éducation À L’image

• youth
• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

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.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• Media
• Games and gamification

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

UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.

• youth
• United Nations

• Accelerators

Bienvenidxs!

• youth

• Academia
• Peer networks

The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.

• youth

• Fellowships

No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Podcasts
• Digital literacy

The Demography Project is an independent youth-led civic technology and data journalism non profit registered in Kenya.

• youth
• Clean water and sanitation

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Vote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.

• youth

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Google's digital media literacy training for kids

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

PBS youth media literacy effort. "This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology."

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

• Facebook
• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A collection of 700+ resources targeted at EU youth

• youth

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

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
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Digital literacy

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.

• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.

• youth

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation

• youth

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Awards and prizes

Applications open on Tuesday, October 15 for the Coding it Forward Fellowship - a paid, 10 week summer fellowship that empowers early-career technologists to innovate in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States.

• youth
• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

• mental health
• youth
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Design
• Civic literacy

Citizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.

• youth

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

This is an online course designed around promoting and discussing student-led voice in civic engagement.

• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science