A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible

• guides
• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Analyst Institute's Expy Awards recognize innovation in political organizing efficacy

• Awards and prizes

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

• Fight disinformation
• Courses

A comprehensive guide on how government agencies can recruit, hire, onboard, and retain digital talent.

• guides

• Govtech

The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more

• Govtech
• Shows and films

State-by-state info making it easier to vote

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Gong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Filter bubble poppers

A free relational organizing technique informed by behavioral science; a lightweight relational organizing approach that reaches non-activists; a commit-to-vote replacement that doesn’t insult your supporters.

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Make a plan to vote

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative

• Civic maps

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Indicators

UNLOCK Accelerator by Wikimedia Deutschland We accelerate your ideas. Together we build the future of Free Knowledge.

• Accelerators

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services

• Fellowships

By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.

• city
• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Evaluate impact
• Dashboards
• Indicators

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Civic features

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

A newsletter on democracy, organizing, movements and tech by Micah Sifry

• Newsletters

Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa.

• Media
• Narrative tech

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

Tifa Foundation is a grant-making organization that works to promote an open society by actively strengthening civil society in Indonesia.

• Funders & donors

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.

• Participatory aid

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

At the Innovation Lab, an arm of the Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team at the Government Accountability Office, we’re using emerging technology to rethink analytics, auditing, and cybersecurity.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

Circular City Studio, a program established with support from NYCEDC, encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine urban environments and help New York City address short, medium, and long term challenges facing our city.

• Climate action

• Incubators

A development-focused map of Africa with layers for water, maize, etc.

• Civic maps

Solve for Good is the Data Science for Social Good Foundation's platform for social good organizations to post data projects they need help with, for volunteers to help scope those projects into well-defined problems, and to help solve those problems.

• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

Volunteer lawyers and legal aid advocates increasing access to justice From connecting attorneys to those most in need, to creating legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves, we make the law work for the many and not the few.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Resource matching and sharing

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Mapping tools

The Polarization Lab at Duke brings together scholars from the social sciences, statistics, and computer science to study how to bridge America’s partisan divide.

• Research and policy centers
• Filter bubble poppers
• Polarization

We partner with agencies to enable human-centered, digitally-assisted public benefits programs.

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits

Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Location

New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Newsletters

Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.

• Google
• labor

• Civic tech unions

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

• white collar crime

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

Research ICT Solutions Ltd

• guides

• Connectivity

a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined

• Research and policy centers

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic features
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories

• Report cards and audits

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Archives
• Artistic interventions

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy

We are a specialist group of journalists, technologists, digital storytellers and development practitioners. We work together to tackle voicelessness, surfacing stories from unheard groups worldwide.

• Media

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• Justice tech
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

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

“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns