Every year, Access Now celebrates the heroes of human rights in the digital age, and we’re looking for nominations!

• human rights

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Send a better message

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Nova-Ideo collects ideas and transforms them into implementable proposals

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

NYC BigApps is the premier civic innovation competition in New York City that challenges tech experts to apply their know-how to improve NYC.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

IdeaScale is the leading innovation management software platform for the enterprise, government, and education. Gather ideas and implement them.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

A free campaign for youth funded by Colin @kaepernick7 to raise awareness on self-empowerment 💪🏿 and interacting with law enforcement 🚔

• racial equity
• trainings
• youth

• Civic literacy
• Justice tech
• Foundational layers

Help your neighbors register to vote.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Lexassisto is an interactive online resource that attempts to make the law and information about legal processesmore accesible to people.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Oakland Fence Project is a public art experience with three primary components: an interactive documentary installation, an A/R mobile cinema app, and a participatory photo exhibit online

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Democracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

• air quality
• radiation

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Innovation you want, businesses you love

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

As members of the tech resistance community we commit to resisting the Trump Administration’s efforts to divide, to silence, to persecute and to oppress.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Coworker.org is a platform for worker voice. Find out why employees of some of the world's largest companies are using Coworker.org to win change.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

great games for a great cause

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Coronavirus Covid-19 es la app oficial del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación y tiene como objetivo que los argentinos y las argentinas puedan realizarse una rápida autoevaluación para saber si sus síntomas son compatibles con el COVID-19.

• apps
• COVID-19

• COVID Government Projects
• COVID

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Wenadata is a web-based, mobile-based and offline tool which gathers statistical data, and works with government, private sector companies and other institutions to help them collect opinions and help make better strategic decisions for citizens

Baobab.law attempts to remove barriers to legal assistance by providing DIY legal solutions in the form of videotutorials. Videos are recorded with professional lawyers, and are available in multiple languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Psiphon is a free and open-source internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, providing open access to the internet for millions of citizens around the world.

• apps
• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Learn how to run powerful campaigns this Autumn! Applications are due 9am on Tuesday 21 August.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Creating a system that makes it easy to store, manage, and search for public records.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Freedom of Information

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Uses machine learning to track legislation and predict the best methods of advocating for them

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

We help make technology work for everyone.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Strong Towns is a non-profit organization working to support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become financially strong and resilient.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs