The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States working to educate our neighbors about the importance of digital rights. Organized by EFF.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Code for America announce the launch of tools for local communities interested in identifying areas for economic growth using 22 environmental sustainability indicators, including job growth, value-added, air quality, climate impact, energy, water, and land use across 389 industry sectors..

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Challenges

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Deliberation
• Digital Public Infrastructure

25 years of aid accountability

• Timelines

Peer communities of digital US government workers. Collaborate and share resources with others across government. You must have a .gov email address to join.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Peer networks

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A 3-year census of the wild cat population in Washington, DC

• animals

• Crowdsourcing

In ever changing times, it is important for every citizen to have their voice heard. Polliticly is the app that lets you find your voice by tailoring polls and questions that relate to pressing issues in your community and then sends results of those polls to your local elected officials.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Surveys & polling

A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Challenges
• COVID Government Projects

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Incubators

Discontinued crowd-funded journalism project

• Media

Tracking the development and thinking of the newest undergraduate program at UM's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Newsletters

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Issue reporting

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Archives

Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.

• partisan

• Peer to peer SMS

A website platform for progressive campaigns.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Website builder

by AI Initiative

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

VR project looking at fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Bots

A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Civic features

Under development - Monitors news sites for changes to articles that might indicate political meddling

• extensions

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

OCSI provides high quality research, data and analysis to public and community sector organisations, helping you make better decisions – decisions that contribute to the public good.

• neighborhoods

• Civic data

The easiest way to check the status of every voter. Alloy Verify is an API that helps voter registration groups, progressive campaigns, and political techies know who’s registered to vote. Get started for free

• partisan

• Civic data APIs
• Voter registration

Our mission is to provide news product professionals with an inclusive community of support and elevate product leadership within the news community

• Media
• Peer networks
• Trade groups

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

The Pudding's clever visual essays present data in artistic and meaningfully interactive ways. Here they share "How to make dope shit", and other lessons.

• resources
• guides

• Media
• Data visualization

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.

• X (Twitter)

• Media and social media analysis
• Filter bubble poppers

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement

• books

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Books
• Manage volunteers

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

• Challenges
• Public project trackers

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.

• Media

OpenSanctions lets investigators find leads, helps companies manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A newsletter para quem quer informação direto da fonte! Dados e documentos inéditos, tutoriais, entrevistas, bastidores, notícias e reportagens sobre e usando a Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI). Feita pra você, a cada 15 dias, gratuitamente.

• guides

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Newsletters

We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.

• mobility
• gig workers

• Platform coops

A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet

• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Spotlight on Corruption works to end corruption within the UK and wherever the UK has influence · We track how the UK enforces its anti-corruption laws

• Watchdogging and transparency

Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.

• US Election 2020

• Specific campaigns
• Advertising

• Civic tech catalogs

Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.

• Media
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Fundraising tools

Our Advance Change Funds -donor advised funds- enable agile and efficient giving for individual donors and institutions.

• Funders & donors

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses