Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organisation initiated in May 2000 by several women’s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively.
Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.
This resource is developed by and for open government influencers - civil servants and civil society representatives seeking to collaboratively make governance processes transparent, participatory and accountable.
Reported lets you submit feedback about NYC taxis in 30 seconds. Reported submits this feedback directly to NYC's 311 system and the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission.
In the light of Hurricane Sandy displacing the region's businesses, this is a map of area business helping each other out. Here you will find locations to work, recharge, and reconnect.
RevUp Software is a Silicon Valley-based SaaS start-up that designs tools to help academic institutions, non-profits, and political organizations leverage data analytics and social media to meet and exceed their fundraising goals.
The Centre for Social Impact (CSI) is a collaboration of world-class universities who provide education, tools and research to help catalyse social change for a better world.
We believe a world that respects our right to be isn’t some far-off destination. It’s something we’re building every day. This is your call to power, to build a world free of harassment. How do you want to get started?
Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.
TenantsMap shows residential buildings with rent-regulated units throughout Manhattan and their volume of housing safety-related 311 service requests, which is updated daily.
We are seeking social entrepreneurs who have bold ideas to solve some of the most pressing global challenges and are willing to translate their passion and beliefs into a tangible model to empower social change
DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.
The directory and review site Yelp shares global crowdsourced user data on restaurants across cities (such as Phoenix, Madison, and Edinburgh) in its Dataset Challenge for participating researchers to build tools and provide research on urban trends and behavior.
Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.
The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential
2300 N Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20037, USA
data.org brings together philanthropy, private sector technology, academia, and social impact organizations to build the field of data science for social impact.
With voter turnout at record lows, and political illiteracy rampant, PeoPoli is a political parody in the form of a video game designed to teach Canadian Politics through interactive storytelling.
1201 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The First Act Fund is a new source of catalytic funding and support encouraging young people with technical backgrounds to pursue impactful and innovative ideas.
Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.