A special report by Micah Sifry

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Reports

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Resources and story-based campaign for tenants' rights in Slovenia

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Story-based campaigns

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Government transparency

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Books

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Campaign organizations

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Peer networks
• Digital transformation
• Data governance

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Mapping tools

The Social Practice is an ideologically-driven consultancy based in the US and Europe. We help those working for big change to strategize, communicate, and organize at scale.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Developed for Occupy Wall Street in 2011, the first mobile panic button app.

• apps
• Occupy

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Over 860 "Coders, product managers and anyone who wants to help the party win with better technology."

• partisan

• Meet the others
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Our committed staff of lawyers, community organizers, policy experts, and other advocates combine forces with 80 member firms, 900 pro bono attorneys, and thousands of community members.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nosotras.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Rootcause is a not-for-profit consultancy helping forward thinking organisations win in modern digital information ecosystems.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

We are an employee-owned digital mobilisation agency. We create campaigns online that get people to take action.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

A prototype project exploring how political parties and organizations could do a better job managing membership

• Advocacy tech
• CRM

A mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share

• Advocacy tech
• Decentralization
• Distributed campaigns

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We believe that people work better together, which is why at Unionize we have made it easier than ever for you to join a trade union that represents you and your employment rights.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Data schemas and standards

Citizen Intelligence Agency (OSINT) , monitoring key political figures and institutions, provides insights into financial performance, risk metrics, and political trends

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

A sophisticated website builder for political campaigns

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Website builder

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico

• criminal justice

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Insurrection Index is a searchable database of records on individuals and organizations in positions of public trust who were involved in the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Romanian Alaveteli instance

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Сайт «Доступ до Правди» працює як уніфікована платформа для надсилання електронних запитів розпорядникам інформації відповідно до Закону “Про доступ до публічної інформації”.

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

How the Resistance is Mobilizing

• podcasts
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Podcasts

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media is a non-profit organization that advocates for Palestinian digital rights. 7amleh’s mission is to create a safe, fair and free digital space for Palestinians.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Remotely Good Our site is the perfect place to find remote volunteer and paid roles in nonprofits, campaigns, advocacy groups, and government agencies you can take on from anywhere in the world.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

A hub of technologists dedicated to building technology for Reproductive Justice

• women's health

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC seeking to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

With a mission to combat online abuses, particularly image-based sexual abuse, while advocating for legislative reform and providing support to victims.

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Petitions