Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media literacy
• Consumer watchdogging

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

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

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

#SaveOurPrivacy is an online collective launched in May, 2018 to safeguard your privacy and ensure a citizen centric data protection law.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.

• Ballot information

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

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

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Transparency International EU is part of the global anti-corruption movement, Transparency International, which includes over 100 chapters around the world

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Connect and live more safely

• apps
• crime

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• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

ENEMO is an international organization, a network composed of 22 national election monitoring CSOs from 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three European Union countries.

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Campaign for Freedom of Information has been promoting and defending freedom of information in the UK for 38 years.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

El Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, IIDH/CAPEL, es un programa especializado del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated,first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data,applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly,cheaply, and efficiently

• city
• mass transit
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The LOGD project investigates the role of Semantic Web technologies, especially Linked Data, in producing, enhancing and utilizing government data published on Data.gov and other websites.

In a first-of-its-kind project, The Circuit collected and cleaned millions of records from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County’s mainframe computer system.

Namati convenes the Legal Empowerment Network. In 2021, our membership grew to over 11,000 individuals and over 2,800 groups from 170 countries.

The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest online community and repository of electoral knowledge.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger
• United Nations

• Challenges

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Crowdsourcing

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Die Universität Bern ist eine 1834 gegründete Volluniversität in der Stadt Bern, mit acht Fakultäten, rund 150 Instituten und 9 inter- und transdisziplinäre Kompetenzzentren.

Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.

• guides
• books

• Books
• Data science for social good
• Open knowledge

Chiediamo dati aperti e machine readable sull’emergenza Covid-19

• Civic data
• Specific campaigns
• Open government data

Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Tech for public challenges

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

Bethnal Green's Directory of over 80 impact organisations in tech for good

• Civic tech catalogs

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools
• Media and social media analysis

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space

• Media
• Fight disinformation