Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

• guides
• partisan
• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

• No poverty

• Access social benefits

ConsiliumBots uses technology and data to help people make important decisions by turning complex and underutilized information into virtual assistance and personalized recommendations across education, housing, and other areas of government programs.

• Access social benefits
• Behavioral economics programs

Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.

• Govtech
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.

• Bots
• Nonprofit tech
• Chat and messaging

Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital transformation

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

The Merit Data Platform connects organizations and people on a flexible HIPAA and SOC2 compliant knowledge graph.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Network visualizations

an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients

• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

• diaspora

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America.

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Generative AI

We identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.

• 2024 elections

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world

• books

• Books
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

• Digital security and privacy
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

Red Hook WiFi, a project of Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.

• Connectivity
• Hardware
• Community wifi

Easy to use and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

• local

• Neighborhood forums

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

• Life below water
• city
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Tracking Exposed started as a free software analysis tool meant for activists and researchers working to expose the digital tracking and online profiling that was invisible, inescapable and unaccountable.

• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

• local

• Community wifi

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Graveyard
• Connectivity
• Chat and messaging

The Digital Security Community Directory of security and safety resources available in various Southeast Asian languages

• Digital security and privacy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Circumvention tech

A Rede de Autarquias Participativas pretende ser uma estrutura colaborativa que congrega todas as autarquias portuguesas comprometidas com o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de democracia participativa a nível local.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Our end-to-end verifiable, secure, online election technology, proves the integrity of democratic processes and verifies the accuracy of voting results, without losing flexibility and ability for customization

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

The Copenhagen Democracy Summit is an annual conference bringing together political and business leaders, including current and former heads of government, from the world’s democracies.

• Conferences

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

• Participatory democracy

Georgia's freedom of information platform (Alavateli instance)

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

• Games and gamification
• Media literacy