A podcast bringing you one degree closer to nonprofits making an impact in the world.

• 2024 Webby Awards
• Occupy

• Podcasts

Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.

• free speech
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Journalism
• Civic maps
• Story-based campaigns

The "Governor Barbie" campaign, launched by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was more than just an innovative approach to brand building, but a significant step toward redefining and challenging stereotypes associated with female politicians.

• women
• Gender Equality
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

ChildFund International campaign to remove online child abuse material

• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

The world's first text-to-sign interpreter for emergency alerts

• 2024 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions

Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest.

• Zero hunger
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

The platform for buying and selling proxy voting rights

• commercial

• Consumer watchdogging

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity
• hate speech

• Crowdsourcing
• Media and social media analysis

A Tableau data visualization and analysis of public transit in NYC

• mass transit

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Project Gameface helps gamers control their mouse cursor using their head movement and facial gestures.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

Look to Speak is an Android app from Google which enables you to use your eyes to select a menu of phrases and pictures and have them spoken aloud.

• apps
• Android

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.

• apps
• Android
• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Machine vision

Powered by artificial intelligence, Eye Tracking gives users a built-in option for navigating iPad and iPhone with just their eyes.

• Apple

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Community-building resources
• The craft of organizing

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Government transparency

A toolkit for impact practitioners to build products, services & systems that center women.

• toolkits
• women

• Design
• Playbooks and design principles
• Visual Design

AI platform with significant defense industry usage, and 49% ownership investment by Meta

• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech vendors
• Data labeling

Operating as the official website for Baltimore City government, providing access to civic services, news, departments, and resources

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Social networks
• Find your representatives

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. 

• Reduced inequalities
• electricity
• housing

The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.

A fun illustrated map charting AI Safety efforts across blogs, podcasts, training, support, governance, research, and so on.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic tech catalogs

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

Ajudamos organizações sem fins lucrativos, não governamentais e governamentais a aproveitar o poder dos seus dados, para melhorar o seu impacto na comunidade.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Hardware

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Created by NetFreedom Pioneers, the NKITI is designed to lower the entry barriers for technical individuals and organizations seeking to develop new information access solutions for the DPRK, and to serve as a launchpad for a new wave of technology-driven and DPRK-focused organizations.

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Incubators

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.

• Graveyard
• Civic literacy
• Accelerators

The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Research tools

A world in which political leaders are one of the most respected roles in society.

• Help more people run for office

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

A Próxima Geração, uma associação sem fins lucrativos, tem como objetivo revitalizar a democracia portuguesa. A Próxima Geração representa a primeira Academia apartidária com contexto global em Portugal.

• Civic literacy
• Online courses

RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.

• Democratic Innovations
• Quadratic voting

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

• city
• public space
• mental health

• Design

An easy tool to host a quadratic vote.

• Democratic Innovations
• E-voting and I-voting
• Quadratic voting

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• city
• OpenStreetMap
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Online education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses
• Diplomacy

Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open civic data

The Global Impact Award recognizes media or organizations that have profoundly changed the world for the better.

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Narrative tech

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Crowdsourcing

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Governance of AI