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• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Swedish social impact startup accelerator

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

Bethnal Green's Directory of over 80 impact organisations in tech for good

• Civic tech catalogs

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

• Civic maps
• Archives

We believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

CISLM will grow a more equitable and sustainable future for local news, the journalists who make it and the communities that need it.

• Media
• Research and policy centers

Promise Tracker is a tool designed to help journalists and civil society watchdogs track campaign/promises/pledges by government officials

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Do you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A bot that debunks claims shared on social media by sharing a fact check.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

A public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement. Appears to still be under development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Bloom Works is a women-owned public interest technology company. We help our partners create elegant, accessible services that put people first.

• Govtech vendors

Securely share information with Africa's finest journalists BLOW THE WHISTLE

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

Resources for Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Investigations.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Investigative journalism tech

The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

This overview highlights resources that are available for TU Delft researchers in their Open Science journey.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Open civic data
• Citizen science

ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Panama Papers is an unprecedented investigation that reveals the offshore links of some of the globe’s most prominent figures.

• corruption

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

A project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources. The intention is to help people find free OSINT resources.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Baltimore news coverage, including politics, business, entertainment, food, and events. In-depth investigation and thoughtful opinion on the Baltimore region.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.

• Government transparency
• Digital transformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Association féministe intersectionnelle à l'origine de #TwitterAgainstWomen, notre objectif est de sensibiliser et d'informer sur les cyberviolences, les droits des victimes et les recours possibles.

• Gender Equality
• LGBTQI
• harassment

• Campaign organizations
• Solidarity networks
• Hotlines

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

• waste
• food
• migration

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Empowering and inspiring civic innovators across central Virginia

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Online consult for abortion pills by mail

• women's health
• Good health and well-being
• health

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

We’re here to help you understand how to get an abortion.

• Good health and well-being
• health
• women's health

• Civic data
• Civic maps

An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

An interactive scorecard where people can see if they would be flagged for social welfare fraud under the Netherlands' broken system

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Access social benefits

Interviews with 90 respondents

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

• human rights
• anti-trafficking

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Compute the impact of public policy

• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Write rules as code

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Access social benefits
• Budget explorers

The Advocacy Hub is a community of consultant campaigners, evaluators, facilitators and strategists who support and advise civil society organisations to become more effective and have greater impact.

• Organize campaigns

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Maker of Wordpress, Tumblr, Longreads, and more

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

CiviCue is a decentralized autonomous civic media platform equipped with blockchain civic tech that aims to disrupt existing media landscape by serving as a public good collectively owned and managed by all users who contribute to the platform wellbeing and benefit from profit sharing, thus balancing commercial interests and social values.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

WordPress For News Organizations

• Media

Streamline your volunteer application process. In closed beta as of March 2023.

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

Add a text hotline to your services for fractions of a cent per text! Carrier Pigeon lets your team receive & reply to clients’ texts in Slack. Carrier Pigeon is currently used by abortion access organizations to provide information, find clinics, and answer clients' questions - securely & confidentially.

• Slack

• SMS tools
• Hotlines

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms