Ideas worth spreading

• Media

Terreform ONE is a nonprofit architecture and urban design research group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.

• buildings
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Design

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a funding initiative that encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• city
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

We are a digital agency focused on innovative work for social good.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Tools for Funders

A platform to help social good outfits import, visualize, and analyze impact data

• Evaluate impact

Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Open justice
• Civic teams at tech companies

Fakten für die Demokratie

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The NoC a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.

• Research and policy centers
• Partner networks and coalitions

We’re a collection of agile technology and design firms that serve—or aspire to serve—the government.

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Govtech vendors

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Academia
• Mapping

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Legal tech

The right's answer to ActBlue, ActRight aggregates actions and donations to conservative causes

• partisan

• Activism aggregators

A collection of open source digital public goods sorted by Sustainable Development Goals

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital Public Goods

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Data schemas and standards
• Digital Public Goods
• Taxonomies

Publish and preserve your data

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing platforms

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Digital transformation

A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Digital rights

La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisiones automatizadas e inteligencia artificial en España.

• Digital security and privacy

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Individuos que apoyan las actividades estratégicas de la Coalición

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Consumer watchdogging

WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Consumer watchdogging

KivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Hubs

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

A Popular Science piece with key takeaways educational section

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic fiction

A Roof is a solution for identifying accommodation spaces to help refugees who arrive in Romania and need help immediately.

• Ukraine
• refugees
• housing

• Resource matching and sharing

The lives of Ukrainian children with cancer depend on specialized treatment. This is where they find critical help for them in Romania.

• Ukraine
• Good health and well-being

• Resource matching and sharing

HexaFair, an all-in-one 3D Virtual & Hybrid events platform for Events, Conferences & Summits, Fairs & Exhibitions, Careers & Job Fairs, Trade Shows, Industry Expos & Community Networking Meets

• The Tech
• Organize events

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Engagement journalism

Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine

• Ukraine
• refugees
• racial equity

• Support civic projects with tech

We are a collective that helps designers impacted by the conflict in Ukraine reach safety and find new work opportunities.

• Ukraine
• Discord

• Socialize online
• Design

X's community-based approach to misinformation

• civic features
• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

WeHelpUkraine.org is a platform to help Ukrainian refugees find living support Worldwide.

• Ukraine
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

Investigating disinformation campaigns by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Investigative journalism tech

momentum in 2022 by utilizing social media campaigns with hashtags like #GotaGoHome and

• Ukraine
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing
• Participatory aid

Code for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Information sheets for people fleeing Ukraine, in English and Ukranian

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Civin specializes in working with state and local governments and other public sector agencies to build data-driven programs that deliver lasting value.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

A compendium of ways to help, in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian language

• Ukraine
• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid