The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

Somos una organización de mujeres que tiene como principal objetivo acompañar los procesos de mujeres indígenas y campesinas para constituir un espacio donde las experiencias femeninas confluyan en actos, espacios, instrumentos de visibilización, y nuevos aprendizajes para enfrentar las estructuras y prácticas patriarcales que nos someten.

• indigenous
• Climate action
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Energy ID benchmarks open source software for energy, CO2, and Green Software Foundation's SCI metrics using the Green Metrics Tool.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Build something
• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

In the period between the beginning of 2021 and the middle of 2022, we investigated open-source digital infrastructures used by communities that are under the constant threat of violation of civil and environmental rights.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Environmental data

Eco-CI calculates the energy consumption of your CI/CD environments, supporting GitHub and GitLab.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Build something
• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

Friends of the Earth is the UK's biggest grassroots network dedicated to protecting people and planet.

• Climate action

• Campaign organizations

The Open Energy Badge displays energy/CO2 costs for GitHub projects, covering test runs, API calls, and more, created by Green Metrics Tool.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators
• Indicators

Power Hog offers tools for monitoring computer energy consumption, focusing on process analysis, central data collection for optimization, and CO2 data submission.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

The Catalyst Fund was launched in October 2023 to support the burgeoning ecosystem of actors working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice to build cross-territorial strategies and weave thematic threads across movements.

• Climate action

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

CarbonDB streamlines energy and carbon data management for businesses, aiding compliance with European guidelines and promoting sustainability.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Carbon calculators
• Regulation

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding is a Search for Common Ground Sri Lanka project to establish a digital learning, networking, mentorship, and professional development platform for youth (ages 18-29) interested in addressing online dangerous hate speech.

• hate speech
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital participation platforms
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy

Caught in the Web (CitW) is a 26 month initiative supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office United Kingdom where Search for Common Ground, Hashtag Generation, and Centre for Equality and Justice work as a consortium to advance effective responses to gendered online hate speech and cyber sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lanka.

• hate speech
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Citizen Engagement
• Civic tech legislation and policy

DreamSpace Academy is a social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges through challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation and impact venture building.

• Community
• Sustainable Development Goals
• sustainability

• Innovation teams and labs
• Civic and social impact companies
• Public Interest Tech

Delete Nothing aims to document technology-related gender-based violence in Sri Lanka, particularly but not limited to the experiences of girls, women, and queer and trans people in Sri Lanka.

• anti-harassment
• anti-trafficking
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital security and privacy
• Tech for public challenges
• Digital rights

Meet BridgeBot, a new chatbot which helps social media users bridge differences and build trust and understanding online.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Fight disinformation
• Digital peacebuilding

IAP2 USA is a nationwide organization that leads, advances and advocates for best practices in public participation. It is a home and community for people who believe good decisions can be made together.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

IAP2 carries out its mission to advance and extend the practice of public participation by organizing and conducting professional development activities to serve the learning needs of members.

• trainings

• Participatory democracy

The AI Policy Hub is an interdisciplinary initiative that trains researchers to develop effective governance and policy frameworks to guide artificial intelligence, with a goal to help policymakers and other AI decision-makers act with foresight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy

Our mission is to promote and advance public participation / community engagement globally through targeted initiatives that are guided by culturally adaptive standards of practice and core values.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies

Kidmapping is an information resource for parents, human rights activists, volunteers and activists. Here you can find information about all kinds of locations of deported children in Russia, Belarus or occupied regions of Ukraine.

• youth
• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns
• Participatory memorials

Innovative Intelligence for Social Good

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Social impact design firms

We are a charity helping organisations use digital for social good

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

We partner with tech companies, nonprofits, and other institutions on projects that promote a more just digital landscape for all users.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

A network connecting social sector staff working on digital projects with each other to share best practice and learn from each other

• Peer networks
• Nonprofit tech

Voices of Venezuela fue creado para construir un puente de entendimiento entre culturas, para combatir la xenofobia y mostrarle al mundo que los venezolanos contribuyen a sus comunidades de acogida, permitiendo que todos prosperen. Website is down but social media is active.

• immigration
• migration
• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Story tech

A collaborative work between DW Akademie and SocialLab to provide credible raw and aggregated data from Social Networks about crisis-related topics like COVID and Migration to support media practitioners and researchers with free access to public data

• refugees
• COVID-19

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

We build durable, impactful websites for world-changing nonprofits.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized

• mobility
• cities

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Digital Benefits Network (DBN) at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University, and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) are collaborating on a two-year-long collaborative research and development project to adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to better support the implementation of public benefits policy and delivery while balancing security, privacy, equity, and usability.

• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Identity

This website tells a story of how a little known legal [corporate tribunal] mechanism is enriching fossil fuel corporations with public money, delaying climate action and threatening our future.

• Climate action
• sustainability

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

• guides
• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Direct action

"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in the extractive sector, with the aim of identifying possible conflicts of interest, corruption or misuse of public office.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organize the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

As a citizen-centric European civil society organisation, ECAS developed its First Aid Democracy toolkit aimed at equipping citizens and civil society organisations with knowledge and practical tips for maintaining a healthy democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Select a country and language to get all the practical information on how, when and where you can register on the electoral roll, as well as voting possibilities in your country of residence.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Make a plan to vote

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Our assisted [UK] voter registration programme Just Register supports people to get onto the electoral roll. It addresses the practical barriers that we know hinder people from getting registered in a timely way. After signing up on Just Register, everyone is signposted to the gov.uk form. From this point, they receive personalised support via peer-to-peer texting and calls to make sure they follow-through completing their registration with their council.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration

Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Challenges

We support groups of actors to come together to cooperate. Then we develop the effective digital tools for impact. Then, we roll out campaigns for impact with those communities.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.

• cities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

The "Governor Barbie" campaign, launched by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was more than just an innovative approach to brand building, but a significant step toward redefining and challenging stereotypes associated with female politicians.

• women
• Gender Equality
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.

• free speech
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Journalism
• Civic maps
• Story-based campaigns

History-making profits. World-ending emissions.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Data visualization
• Specific campaigns

National Digital Inclusion Alliance advances digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.

• Foundational layers
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Connectivity

The AAPI Nonprofit Database is an interactive resource to find and connect with AAPI organizations

• racial equity
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

A podcast bringing you one degree closer to nonprofits making an impact in the world.

• 2024 Webby Awards
• Occupy

• Podcasts

The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.

• Climate action
• culture
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

We leverage remote sensing technology to detect, pinpoint, and quantify methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the scale of individual facilities.

• Climate action
• methane
• Responsible consumption and production

• Satellites
• Carbon calculators