Advocacy for human rights in the Americas

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

The Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve. By Invisible Institute

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Justice tech

Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Black Stripe Foundation is a media production company that produces educational television programmes and other media, one of which is the 'Big Debate', a renowned town-hall debate style TV show in South Africa.

"an investigative toolkit for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply

Quebrando o Tabú is a storytelling organisation focused on raising awareness and engagement around human rights, democracy, and development in Brazil.

The Policy Lab brings together experts from government, universities, and community organizations to collaborate on research tailored to inform decisions about how to improve policies and programs across the state.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Transparency International Belgium is the Belgian national chapter of Transparency International (TI) a global movement against corruption. Together we share a common vision: a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

CampaignMoney.com is a unique website that lets you see for yourself the hidden world of American political campaigns.

DistrictBuilder puts the power of drawing electoral maps in the hands of the people. Redistricting can be a transparent process that represents communities fairly and prevents gerrymandering.

In a first-of-its-kind project, The Circuit collected and cleaned millions of records from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County’s mainframe computer system.

We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and helps communities and governments work better, together.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

• Graveyard
• Media and social media analysis
• Big listening

Kaggle is the world’s largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• Election oversight

Website kami adalah salah satu penyedia fasilitas gratis bagi seluruh masyarakat yang ingin memerangi korupsi.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

At the University of the Andes

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Knowing without Seeing is a research project by Amber Sinha which explores meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms, and privileges comprehension over mere access to information.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works.

• Open knowledge

A guide for civil society organizations looking to get started on a cybersecurity plan

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Academia

A RCT on government staff customer service reps found that providing information on organ donor registration rates led to a 25% increase in signups

• health

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.

• Conferences
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

privacy filters for shared location links

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Location

This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!

• earthquakes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

A report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University

• reports

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Data donations

Event: A critical look at the future of emerging tech

• Conferences
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Data governance
• Working groups

In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.

• Voting and elections
• Report cards and audits
• Social media

People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger
• United Nations

• Challenges

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

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech

The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.

• Fight disinformation
• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research