Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Social impact design firms
• Design

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

Create and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Fundraising tools
• Activism aggregators
• Petitions

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• cities
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Urban planning
• Manifestos
• Design

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency
• Artistic interventions

A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison

• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artistic interventions

This narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.

• No poverty
• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

We invest in digital solutions to climate change.

• Climate action

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• United Nations

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter

• anti-harassment

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Solidarity networks

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Build something
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.

• Media
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We aggregate the best evidence, analysis and expert opinions to help you make informed career decisions that maximize your impact

• Find a job or hire someone
• Effective altruism

Find the best jobs in sustainability, social impact and more

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We curate the best technology roles in impact-led organisations across Europe.

• Graveyard
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• Manage volunteers
• COVID Engagement Projects

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

• reports

• Reports
• Fieldwide resources

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Public Interest Tech

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Books

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Roundtables

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Reports
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

An inactive wiki guide to e-consultation

• guides
• wikis

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data