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

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

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

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

#GotaGoHome: The hashtag that defined Sri Lanka’s revolution

• human rights
• humanitarian

• Advocacy tech
• Protest movements

Prathya is an online ecosystem of support for persons affected by OGBV in Sri Lanka developed by the organizations Hashtag Generation and Delete Nothing and was launched in October 2022.

• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)
• domestic violence
• anti-harassment

• The Tech
• Case management

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

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

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

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Campaign tools

A campaign that harnesses the power of social media to disseminate innovative media outputs and generate dialogue in order to deliver a powerful counter-narrative against diverse forms of hate speech, including antisemitism, anti-Muslim hate, anti-Christian sentiment.

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

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Social media

Since 1982, Search for Common Ground has been building peace, transforming societies, and using innovative tools to end violent conflict around the world.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Community

• Digital peacebuilding

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

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

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

• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy
• Social media

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

Nace como una forma de contribuir a desplegar las habilidades y competencias necesarias en personas y agrupaciones de diversa índole que desean ser protagonistas de la construcción del futuro para sus comunidades, territorios y países.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

IAP2 adalah asosiasi anggota internasional yang mempromosikan dan meningkatkan praktik partisipasi publik atau pelibatan masyarakat, yang menggabungkan individu, pemerintah, lembaga, dan entitas lain yang memengaruhi kepentingan publik di seluruh dunia.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Your AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.

• mobility
• mass transit

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

Swimming with the tide of international trends on the "Public Code, Public Goods" and pursuing digital democracy, moda supports civic technology and empowers open source software development.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open source supply chain

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

Diários oficiais dos municípios brasileiros em formato aberto para a livre consulta da sociedade civil.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization

[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
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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

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

Our SAMbot project measures abusive content that candidates and political parties receive online during Canadian elections.

• anti-harassment

• Bots
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Drones

"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

CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Building inside government

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise 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

Take advantage of world-class training and develop your skillset, join a like-minded community, and access member discounts when you join IAP2 Canada.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

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

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

This research brief explores how public participation practitioners might encounter AI tools; examines the risks, opportunities and uncertainties these tools present; and offers ethical considerations to guide their use.

• research
• resources
• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

Wir machen das Rundum-Paket für deinen sozialdemokratischen Verband!

• partisan

• Campaign tools
• Internal communication and coordination

a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

Give directly to worthy causes and get a video update showing the difference you make.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

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.

Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.

• United States (federal government)

• Open source
• Policy
• Civic tech legislation and policy

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

Our platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people
• Access to laws

This grant programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

In plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library.

• place-based

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning

ConvertKit helps 600k+ creators like you work smarter – not harder – with email, automation, and monetization tools that work together to drive continuous growth.

• commercial

• Creators and Influencers

A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF

• youth
• Ukraine
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Story-based campaigns

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

An award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels

• Climate action
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Digital transformation

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

Award-winning video by the Brennan Center for Justice on out of touch Supreme Court justices

• videos
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Specific campaigns

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

• culture

• Artistic interventions
• Narrative tech