The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

• human rights

• Fight disinformation

The Right2Know Campaign launched in August 2010 and has grown into a movement centred on freedom of expression and access to information

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

The Fair Tax Mark certification scheme was launched in February 2014 and seeks to encourage and recognise organisations that pay the right amount of corporation tax at the right time and in the right place

• Consumer watchdogging
• Trustmarks

New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute runs the Membership Puzzle Project, which works to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally.

Metta and Nest is a global partner for corporates, governments and entrepreneurs on their innovation journeys. Hatched in 2010, we create collaborative environments that help corporates, startups, and our investors scale and succeed.

Propuestas para la Nueva Venezuela.

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

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy.

LightBox provides “Solar-Home-Systems” solutions that use photovoltaic (Solar-Electric or PV) cells and rechargeable batteries to provide electrical power away from the main grids

A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is an annual gathering expressly designed to equip creators of popular culture - including writers, artists, producers, and executives - for the year ahead.

Rhize is a global network of movement-building coaches who train and support grassroots movements in their local communities

• coaching

The New Venture Fund (NVF) works to achieve a healthier, more equitable world. Its work spans a range of issue areas to realise social and environmental change.

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

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing

Fractured Atlas help individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium by providing fundraising tools, educational resources, and personalized support

to assess the economic, environmental, social, and governance performance of 30 of the world’s largest mining companies.

The Global Data Justice project focuses on the diverse debates and processes occurring around data governance in different regions, to draw out overarching principles and needs that can push data technologies’ governance in the direction of social justice.

Tax Justice UK is a campaigning and advocacy organisation, working to ensure that everyone in the UK benefits from a fair and effective tax system

Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice

Open The Government is an inclusive, nonpartisan coalition that works to strengthen our democracy and empower the public by advancing policies that create a more open, accountable, and responsive government.

Making All Voices Count was a programme that supported the development and spread of innovative approaches to fostering accountable, responsive governance – many of them using tools and platforms based on mobile phone and digital technologies.

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

In 2010, Paweł Reszka, Wojciech Cieśla, Michał Majewski and Roman Daszczyński got together to support journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries and created Fundacja Reporterów – the Reporters Foundation, one of the first journalistic NGO’s in Poland

Code for Africa is a people-driven movement that aims to empower active society and strengthen civic watchdogs to help government shape and improve its services to people.

• Civic hacking meetups

Focuses on the emergence of new kinds of independent, alternative journalism in Latin America.

• Journalism
• Conferences

Leadership Academy for Development trains mid-career government officials and business leaders from developing countries to help the private sector be a constructive force for economic growth and development.

Seedstars is a Swiss-based private group of companies with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.

The Financial Transparency Coalition is a global network of civil society, governments, and experts that works to curtail illicit financial flows through the promotion of a transparent, accountable, and sustainable financial system that works for everyone.

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

Hromadske TV is an initiative of Ukrainian journalists that aims to provide unbiased, censor-free information on political, economic, cultural and social events to Ukrainian citizens.

• free speech

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

Infonet develops technology platforms that enable information-sharing and promote government transparency in Kenya.

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Pop Culture Collaborative is a hub for high impact partnerships and grants designed to help organisations and individuals leverage the reach and power of pop culture for social justice goals

News Deeply is a media and technology firm that aims to elevate the user experience of complex global news issues, primarily through the creation of rich, single-subject news platforms.

Open Secrets is a non-profit organisation which exposes and builds accountability for private sector economic crimes through investigative research, advocacy, and the law.

All the Citizens is a non-profit organisation registered as a UK limited company

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte / Society for Civil Rights) is a Berlin-based non-profit NGO founded in 2015. Its mission is to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe.

Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to promote democracy and sustainable economic development.

The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) is a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.

APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs)

Argentine Chapter Of Transparency International

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Yiaga Africa is a non-profit civic hub of change makers committed to the promotion of democratic governance, human rights and civic engagement.

The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading organisation fighting anti-Semitism through programmes and services that counteract hatred, prejudice, and bigotry.

Transparency International aims to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability, and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Publish What You Pay is a global network of civil society organisations working to increase transparency and accountability in the extractive and government sectors.

• labor

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard
• Government transparency