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Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.
Google Censorship
China (Zhong Guo)A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.
Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible
Civic Echo
Geneva, SwitzerlandCivic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.
Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins UniversityThe Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.
Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.
Code for All_
LisbonTech upskilling platform including Máquina de Identificação de Talento (MIT), "para avaliar o potencial de requalificação dos trabalhadores e, assim, agilizar a seleção de candidatos para formação"
Transversal Design for Social Impact
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.
Stump
Boulder, COStump is a non-partisan tool for empowering voters to participate in democracy in a real-time, social, and impactful way.
OpenGovLoc
Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.
Instituto Cidade Democrática
São PauloCivil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.
Empurrando Juntas
São PauloFree tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.
Text platform for grassroots fundraising and organizing
Open Measurement Gatherings (OMG)
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAConvening internet measurement groups with an established practice of working in the open to collaborate and converge on best practices, methodologies, and complementary approaches for the collecting of data around internet censorship.
We estimate that UK central government conducts approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions per year in the provision of around 400 services, of which approximately 143 million are complex repetitive transactions. We estimate that 84% of these complex transactions are highly automatable.
Talent Toolkit
United States of America (the)To...help governments hire more effectively, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) has actively engaged government organizations at the state, county, and city levels to optimize their talent practices and build digital capacity — and we’ve learned some things.
Democratizing artificial intelligence for improving permitting outcomes and efficiency
Message provides email, text, and CRM solutions designed for large-scale digital programs run by top practitioners.
Terner Labs
Berkeley, CA, USATerner Labs scales critical housing innovations at the intersection of equity, affordability, and sustainability.
The River Thames Water Quality Testing Group is operated by volunteers who enjoy wild swimming, paddle-boarding and boating, and are concerned about the water quality in the River Thames and the lack of up-to-date information.
StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. Tells a story based on a series of singular point locations.
Rapid integrates advanced mapping tools, authoritative geospatial open data, and cutting-edge technology to empower OpenStreetMap mappers at all levels to get started quickly, making accurate and fresh edits to maps.
All Tech Is Human Responsible Tech University Network
New York City, NY, USAAll Tech Is Human’s mission is to grow and diversify the entire Responsible Tech community. The University Network serves that mission by extending opportunities for learning and career growth (and a good time!) to affiliated student clubs at colleges and universities across the globe.
Je Gemeente Telt
Leuven, BelgiumMaking the financial open data of Flemish local governments accessible for the many.
We’re building sustainable solutions for collecting, processing, analyzing and displaying aerial data while supporting the communities built around them.
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.
Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.
Transforming Flanders digitally
FlandersThe Government of Flanders is developing the digital talents of all people of Flanders. It valorises data as a raw material of the economy and society and is working on the digital transformation of public service delivery.
Tattara is a platform that enables field agents to collect data with a mobile device.
Skeptic Reader
Spain (España)Your personal bullshit🤌 detector for the Internet.
Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.
Synthetic Memories
Barcelona, Spainan initiative aimed at recovering lost or undocumented visual memories using AI image generation.
Ona Data is our flagship mobile data collection platform, used by thousands of organizations globally for data collection and real-time monitoring.
This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.
The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!
SurveyCTO is a mobile data collection platform for researchers and professionals working in offline settings.
Formerly Google Studio. Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.
Access street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. Fill in the gaps by capturing coverage yourself.
The Export Tool is an open service that creates customized extracts of up-to-date OSM data in various file formats.
Africa Law Tech Festival
NairobiThe Africa Law Tech Festival is the largest Law and Tech conference in Africa, convening over 2000 delegates from 40+ countries.
Mark and find wheelchair accessible places — worldwide and for free. Wheelmap is the map for wheelchair accessible places
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