Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Evaluate impact
• Building in the private sector

Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.

• racial equity

• Media
• Games and gamification

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

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

• apps
• Quality education

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Data schemas and standards

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

A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning

• Quality education

• Open knowledge

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Digital rights

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.

• Life below water

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Our mission is to accelerate deep ocean exploration by developing accessible systems to broaden the community of those who explore and understand the deep sea.

• Life below water
• sustainability

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source

An aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators
• Direct action

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

UkraineTakeShelter.com is an independent platform helping to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts and housing.

• housing
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Solidarity networks

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Internet governance, with and for citizens

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Internet governance

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

At ex/ante, we’ve created an experimental sandbox for inventive teams to build solutions that advance free societies and counter authoritarianism

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:

• Govtech
• Connectivity
• Govtech vendors

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.

• apps
• civic features
• Android

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Graveyard
• Civic features

Code for BTV is an organization based in Vermont that works on projects to address technology problems for social and civic justice organizations.

• Meet the others
• Civic apps outfits

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Fieldwide resources
• Civic apps outfits

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Phone banking tools
• Voter outreach

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses
• The craft of organizing

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech
• Organize events

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

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Relational organizing

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

Ranking of countries by their open government data governance processes

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation