A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice

• racial equity

• Cameras

A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.

• Partnerships for the Goals

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

A Google Sheet comparing popular meeting livestreaming solutions with government meetings in mind

• Meeting tech

Welcome to the World of Twisted ToysTM, a wonderland of excitement, experiences and exploitation. We pride ourselves on making toys that are addictive, risky and put you completely under our control.

• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Report for the World matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Diversify Tech connects underrepresented people in tech to jobs scholarships, events, speaking opportunities and more.

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Newsletters

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

• Fight disinformation

utility for getting information about the APKs that are installed on your device

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment

• Artistic interventions
• Walking tours

Craft @ Large ...is an Intergenerational, Intercultural Hackerspace in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH

• Hubs
• Digital fabrication

The premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics

• Data visualization
• Conferences

Synthesize qualitative data

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning. 

• Research and policy centers
• Voting and elections

Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Justice tech

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Research and policy centers
• Conferences
• Academia

A self-directed learning program, adapted from a selective executive education course, intended to support data stewards in creating public value through data collaboration

• trainings

• Civic data

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Archives
• Translation and linguistic representation

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Act Hub Africa is a ‌civic-tech‌ ‌NGO‌ ‌that‌ ‌works‌ ‌to‌ promote ‌good governance, democracy, ensure‌ ‌openness‌ ‌and‌ ‌transparency‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌governments‌ ‌by‌ ‌making‌ ‌their‌ ‌fiscal data‌ ‌available‌ ‌in‌ ‌a‌ ‌simplified,‌ ‌easy‌ ‌to‌ ‌understand‌ ‌form‌ ‌and‌ ‌engage‌ ‌people‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌local‌ ‌government‌ ‌areas‌ ‌on‌ ‌how‌ ‌to‌ ‌use‌ ‌them‌ ‌in‌ ‌engaging‌ ‌their‌ ‌political‌ ‌officeholders

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Explore Nepal Using Data

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open data publishing portals

Liberating Knowledge for Opportunities

• Civic apps outfits
• Open knowledge

open data, transparent society

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Data schemas and standards

A prototype to display factchecks in real-time on live TV

• extensions

• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard
• Factchecking

The FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A tagging system for fact-checks

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

The MSCAPP curriculum is a three-legged stool, building foundational knowledge of computer science, statistics, and public policy analysis.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Degree programs

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Supporting civil society organizations in Latin America

• Nonprofit tech

Visualize the public-interest ecosystem of the private, public, academic and independent players that are directly (or indirectly!) collaborating on key public problems.

• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

DDoS protection for civil society groups

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.

• Podcasts

Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) is a multi-institutional initiative using techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Solutions journalism

One app to take back control of your data

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.

• Media
• Conferences

This Global Language Data Review sets out what language data you need for planning, where you can find it, and how you can help build the body of data to support inclusive services.

• Adjacent Fields
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Column is the first collaborative public notice platform helping publishers, governments and legal services work together to inform their communities.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

Connecting the journalism-tech network that collaborates on open technologies and processes within journalism

• Media

Actionable data to bolster public safety

• Civic data
• Justice tech

This tool allows the public to view, sort, filter, and download ballot images from the 2021 Coordinated Election, permitting an extra level of election transparency from the comfort and safety of their home.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

This list of resources is curated and maintained by MERL Tech and The Engine Room.

• guides

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Reading lists

THE FRICTIONLESS MICRO-PHILANTHROPY APP TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET.

• apps
• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

• human rights

• Funders & donors
• Digital security and privacy

This Code for Canada case study underscores what is possible when it comes to onboarding and implementing digital talent in government

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Fellowships