The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Community-owned internet infrastructure

• coop
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Connectivity
• Community-building resources
• Community wifi

Building a Tribe of Voting Nigerians

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Voter outreach

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

• Media
• Journalism
• Awards and prizes

Ampliamos los espacios de participación ciudadana en la toma de decisiones.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits
• Open government data

Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Nonprofit tech

منشور الزميل عادل فاخر

• Media
• Journalism
• Digital security and privacy

Policy decisions on and resource allocations for IEM tend to be made with inadequate data. The focus of the IDS programme is to coordinate a transboundary effort to develop indigenous data with indigenous stewardship.

• indigenous

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data activism

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

A repository with over 1400 open datasets

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Sharing information about Thailand and its development with the world.

• Civic data
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

NLA advances the cause of quality professional journalism, and welcomes news leaders, academics and others.

• Media
• Journalism
• Professional associations

Eduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.

• Quality education

• Civic data
• Specific campaigns
• Data science for social good

Open government initiative to encourage open and participatory government

• Participatory democracy

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Innovation teams and labs

Grassroots Analytics Venture Fund is on the lookout for ideas that monetize or add value to GA's industry-leading progressive consumer database. This is a $500,000 fund for internal or external ventures.

• partisan

• Get funding
• Organize campaigns
• Funders & donors

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

Database of more than 20 million left-leaning donors

• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

• Civic hackathons

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

Potential Energy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition that brings together America’s leading creative, analytic and media agencies to shift the narrative on climate change

• Climate action

• Advertising

Code for Africa partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Ayin Network to offer a combination of training, professional mentorship and story grants to journalists in Nigeria and Sudan, to enable them to produce digital storytelling around issues of religious freedom, so as to improve understanding of tolerance versus militancy and extremism.

• trainings

• Media

Journalists in ICFJ's unparalleled network produce news reports that lead to better governments, economies and societies.

• free speech

• Media
• Peer networks

Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

An online event on digital participation platforms

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Conferences

An initiative from Code for Africa and ICFJ for Journalists to Help Citizens Overcome Barriers to Religious Freedom

• religion

• Media

為意義尋找資源、為資源尋找意義

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• CRM

OECD podcast episode

• Fight disinformation
• Podcasts

Our intention with the protest tracker was to map public discourse around GotaGoHome protests and it's spread around Sri Lanka.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps

Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• CRM

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.

• resources

• Build something
• Design
• Visual Design

A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Justice technology news, events and jobs by Jason Tashea

• Justice tech
• Newsletters

The Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis
• Public sentiment tools

Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.

• Participatory democracy
• Fellowships

On the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

Philanthropy by Laurene Powell Jobs

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

UserTesting is pleased to offer free and discounted customer experience research services to qualifying charitable organizations through the OneWorld program.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• User research

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

• trainings
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Accelerators

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

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

​How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?​

• taxes
• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Budget explorers

A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.

• Engagement tech
• Budget explorers
• Policy simulators

"Blackbird.AI views the spread of disinformation as one of the world’s largest threats to national security, business, and the public as a whole." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Bolivia Verifica is a non-profit, non-political digital media that is dedicated to the verification of false news and public discourse to fight against disinformation and improve democratic participation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking