A global map of malaria rates over time

• Good health and well-being
• malaria

• Civic maps

A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

VR project looking at fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.

• partisan

• Peer to peer SMS

A website platform for progressive campaigns.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Website builder

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

by AI Initiative

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Civic features

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

We’re a leading independent digital agency that works with the public and third sectors. Last year, we worked with 80 organisations on over 140 projects to deliver positive, sustainable change.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Guatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Dutch Alvateli site. Maak en bekijk Wob-verzoeken Je recht op openbaarheid van bestuur Iedereen in Nederland heeft het recht om bij een overheidsinstantie informatie op te vragen. Overheidsinstanties zijn wettelijk verplicht om je verzoek in behandeling te nemen.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.

• history

• Civic maps

The Yearbook of International Organizations includes detailed information on c. 73,000 international organizations from 300 countries and territories, c. 41,000 of which are active organizations. Coverage includes intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Approximately 1,200 new organizations are added each year.

• Civic tech catalogs

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

• Digital rights

Facebook's now-defunct newsletter product

• Facebook

• Graveyard
• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

A new podcast from The Policy Lab

• Podcasts
• Tech or Digital Policy

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

• Games and gamification

We are crowd-sourcing a collection of comics on social good topics created by artists around the world, to encourage public understanding on complex social issues.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Artistic interventions

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society.

• Funders & donors

In the winter of 2020-2021 Center for Urban Pedagogy collaborated with eight Teaching Artists to create civically-engaged art activities to do at home!

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.

• Latinx

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

We are intersectional feminists working to build a network of people who are interested in radical change in the tech industry, and connecting with people who would benefit from such change.

• Peer networks

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tech-industry-friendly magazine exploring the use of tech for social good

• Learn about civic tech

Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.

• resources
• curricula

• Govtech
• Courses

Mozilla Rally is aimed at rebuilding your equity in your data. We allow you to choose how to contribute your data and for what purpose.

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Crowdsourcing

Want To Use Mobile Health Data AND Have It To Make Sense? Get Started With Open Mhealth Today.

• Good health and well-being

• Data schemas and standards

Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional,  social, and financial.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Tech tips for nonprofit peeps. Do well while doing good.

• Nonprofit tech
• News and blogs

The Technology Assessment Design Handbook offers both GAO’s own staff and other interested users tools and approaches to think about when designing technology assessments.

• handbooks
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Procurement

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.

• Media

OpenSanctions lets investigators find leads, helps companies manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

Under development - Monitors news sites for changes to articles that might indicate political meddling

• extensions

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

OCSI provides high quality research, data and analysis to public and community sector organisations, helping you make better decisions – decisions that contribute to the public good.

• neighborhoods

• Civic data

Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement

• books

• Books
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Manage volunteers

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

• Challenges
• Public project trackers

The easiest way to check the status of every voter. Alloy Verify is an API that helps voter registration groups, progressive campaigns, and political techies know who’s registered to vote. Get started for free

• partisan

• Civic data APIs
• Voter registration

Our mission is to provide news product professionals with an inclusive community of support and elevate product leadership within the news community

• Media
• Peer networks
• Trade groups

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

A 3-year census of the wild cat population in Washington, DC

• animals

• Crowdsourcing

In ever changing times, it is important for every citizen to have their voice heard. Polliticly is the app that lets you find your voice by tailoring polls and questions that relate to pressing issues in your community and then sends results of those polls to your local elected officials.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Surveys & polling

The Pudding's clever visual essays present data in artistic and meaningfully interactive ways. Here they share "How to make dope shit", and other lessons.

• resources
• guides

• Media
• Data visualization