Verified Voting’s mission is to strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in elections.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Design

The Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is changing how forestation (reforestation, afforestation and conservation) projects are monitored, verified and funded with blockchain technology.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• forests
• Life on land

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Hardware

We help shape the future of technology and society to advance equity, expand opportunity and protect basic rights and liberties.

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

BuzzFeed News has breaking stories and original reporting on politics, world news, social media, viral trends, health, science, technology, entertainment, and LGBTQ issues.

• Media

We were founded in the 1960s to deliver books between libraries. We still deliver books, and we also host digital collections, give out technology grants, house a digital media studio, and more. METRO is committed to supporting libraries, in whatever form that takes.

GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

NYC Office of Technology and Innovation

• Govtech

Technology Transformation Services (TTS) applies modern methodologies and technologies to improve the lives of the public and public servants

• United States (federal government)

FedScoop is the leading tech media brand in the federal government market

StateScoop reports on news and events impacting technology decisions in state and local government

• state

• News and blogs

We work to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything.

• Digital fabrication

Our mission is to drive a giant leap forward in the way DoD builds and deploys technology and digital services. We work alongside our public servants and service members, empowering them to incorporate private sector best practices and talent to build a better future now.

San Francisco Digital Services works with other City departments to improve public services. We use technology to make it easier for people to get things done.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Service delivery

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

• Civic hacking meetups

Led by director Emily Bell since our founding in 2010, our team of researchers examines digital journalism’s industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader, constantly changing world of technology. Operating as an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the center provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research and policy centers

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Tech talent

Starting life as an accelerator and investor, we have become a leading European government-focused technology company

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Was "a community of non-profit, IT, and media organizations that use technology for better transparency, accountability, and governance in the Central and Eastern Europe region."

• Graveyard
• Civic apps outfits

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Coworking space, accelerator, and economic engine in Lilongwe

• development

• Accelerators
• Hubs

Dataphyte is a media research and data analytics organisation with the mission to deploy data tools and technology for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Data science for social good

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers, we provide reliable

• health
• vaccines
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA) helps survivors of intimate partner violence end tech-related abuse.

• anti-harassment
• domestic violence

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Digital, tech, design, and data projects for social impact

• Social impact design firms

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US

• Access social benefits

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Newsletters

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Appgree is the only technology that can sift through the hundreds or thousands of opinions a group might have and find common ground among such a vast array of data. What’s more, it does all this in a matter of minutes.

• Graveyard
• Group decision making

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Procurement

India's open challenge platform

• Challenges

I-­SEEED strives to build an ecosystem of “solutionists” to solve our communities’ most pressing social problems. I-SEEED believe that through innovative economic, educational, environmental design, and cutting edge technology, we can create just and sustainable communities for all.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard

DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.

• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

A conference in South Africa that sought to increase collaboration among players in media, technology, civil society, and business in order to improve both the quantity and quality of civic innovation in South Africa as well as other countries in the region.

• Media
• Conferences

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

The African Media Initiative strengthens Africa’s media sector through advocacy, investments, technology, and training.

We use mobile technology to create scalable campaigns with immediate feedback

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• SMS tools

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ] is a non-governmental organisation, that was founded in 2014

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

• No poverty
• Reduced inequalities

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online