We Build Digital Tools for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A platform to consolidate emergency medical needs across a country, create aid packages of medicines and supplies, centralize supplier quotations, select most cost-effective supplier, and match donors willing to fund aid packages.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Fundraising tools

Discover social impact jobs supporting the Sustainable Development Goals at mission-driven organizations.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Nonprofit tech
• Job boards

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Evaluate impact

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Build something
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Manage volunteers
• Issue reporting

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

• Crowdsourcing
• Narrative tech
• Consumer watchdogging

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Find a job or hire someone

The Floodplain Management Platform for Resilient Communities

• floods

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia

• Media

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Narwhal is a discussion community for curious people of any viewpoint

• Online forums
• Civic forums
• Social networks

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Research and policy centers

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Economic development
• Upskilling

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

GDDF 2023 builds on three years of successful global virtual forums that engage over 3,000 participants each time and feature keynote speakers from USAID, tech companies, and across the digital development ecosystem.

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

Theseus is an enterprise logistics system to track, trace and optimize the global movement of food goods while reducing waste, fostering fair economic opportunities, and directly engaging consumers to learn more about the origins of their food.

• supply chain

• Graveyard
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

We use emerging technologies - like blockchain, IoT devices and sensors, and artificial intelligence - to address some of the world’s most pressing issues, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Partnerships for the Goals
• Sustainable Development Goals

• Graveyard
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Homeward is an identity management system and intelligent resettlement platform for displaced populations.

• refugees
• migration

• Graveyard
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• Consul
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise
• surveillance

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

• WhatsApp

• Circumvention tech
• Civic features

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Donor Management and Fundraising Software for Nonprofits

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?

• apps
• Quality education

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Data schemas and standards