The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

The ‘Zombie Tracker’ is a platform which monitors cases which include a charge under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended in 2008).

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Policy explainers

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open government data

Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Open government data

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

The Local Authority is the podcast from LGC and TPXimpact. Each month we will bring together leading figures from within and around local government to discuss one aspect of the sector’s future.

• Govtech
• Podcasts

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Performance Tracker reviews the state of nine public services – general practice, hospitals, adult social care, children’s social care, neighbourhood services, schools, police, criminal courts and prisons – and their comparative and inter-connected problems.

• Govtech
• Report cards and audits

The All Tech Is Human Library Podcast is a special 16-part series featuring a series of rapid-fire intimate conversations with academics, AI ethicists, activists, entrepreneurs, public interest technologists, and integrity workers, who help us answer: How do we build a responsible tech future?

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Podcasts

All Tech Is Human has developed this free program in order to help build the Responsible Tech pipeline – by facilitating connections and career development among talented students, career changers, and practitioners.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Find a job or hire someone

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Environmental impact begins with insights. Explore data to make informed decisions and inspire action.

Es una organización catalizadora de procesos y acciones estratégicas, donde converjan reformadores visionarios y líderes democráticos con el objetivo de fortalecer la democracia y alcanzar la prosperidad nacional a través de acciones de incidencia y acompañamiento a los actores y grupos representativos de la ciudadanía.

We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and helps communities and governments work better, together.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Trolling, or social media behavior that is uncivil and provocative is one of the most potent sources of political polarization today

• harassment

Building DIY action communities by activating the youth vote.

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

The EIP Climate Tech Index is designed to track the performance of public companies primarily involved in providing technology that supports global decarbonization. The index is updated daily.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

Groundviews is a citizens journalism website based in Sri Lanka which uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace-building and other issues.

• democracy
• human rights
• peace

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Factchecking

Al Hayat aims to promote accountability, governance, public participation and community cohesion in Jordan and the region within the framework of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, taking into consideration gender mainstreaming in public policy and action.

Ma Dada est un site associatif qui vous aide à faire des demandes d’accès aux documents administratifs communicables.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people are informed and empowered, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good.

• Foundation initiatives
• Open philanthropy

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• Media
• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields

CLIP es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro, con sede en Costa Rica, y equipo latinoamericano, que realiza y coordina investigaciones periodísticas transfronterizas colaborativas y pone sus innovaciones tecnológicas al servicio del periodismo de la región.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

A forma fácil de ler o Parlamento.

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Viewfinder is an accountability journalism project in South Africa. Viewfinder conduct long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.

• Investigative journalism tech

Watchdog.net, a project of Demand Progress, is a progressive organization whose one million activists work to guard the interests of ordinary Americans — and fight back against corporations and wealthy interests that seek undue control over our government, economy and society.

Community Lattice is a social enterprise that helps communities understand and optimize land revitalization programs, like EPA Brownfields, as a pathway to environmental and climate justice.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity

• Reduced inequalities

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• cities

Find out more about corruption in Ukraine: Latest news, Corruption Perceptions Index score & local chapter’s contact information.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The first research to take a comprehensive view of what community power looks like and to analyse evidence of the impact of community power.

• local

Reactivate This Domain

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Connect and live more safely

• apps
• crime

Nous visons l’impact social le plus large dans nos stratégie d’accompagnement de nos prtenaires en affaire

The Integrity Pact (IP) is a tool to help governments, businesses and the civil society to fight corruption in public contracting and procurement.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The purpose of the Global Democracy Initiative is to organize, train, and deploy Former Parliamentarians of Canada, Former Members of the European Parliament, and Former Members of the U.S

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• Election oversight

We are building an emerging field of internet research with a feminist approach, to inform and influence activism and policymaking.

• Gender Equality

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

• human rights
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

Global Press is a multi-division social enterprise that is transforming international news standards and practices by building representative newsrooms that put local female journalists at the forefront of advancing narrative change.

CREW is a leading ethics watchdog organization that takes relentless legal and investigative actions holding people in power to account.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency