The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Courses
• Data science for social good

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning
• Deepfakes

"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance."

• books

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.

• students

• Challenges

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

• WhatsApp

• Civic features
• Circumvention tech

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

The Schwab Foundation’s 2023 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories

• Awards and prizes

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Digital transformation

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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

Donor Management and Fundraising Software for Nonprofits

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

US-based Government & Nonprofit Portfolio

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

Helping You Move Beyond Debt

• Decent work and economic growth

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good

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

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

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

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

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

• apps
• Quality education

• Emerging tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Blockchain

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

• Quality education

• Open knowledge

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

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

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

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

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

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

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

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Peer networks

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

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

An aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action
• Activism aggregators

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

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

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

• Life below water

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Machine vision

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

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

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

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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
• Whistleblowing
• Investigative journalism tech

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