We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

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• Advocacy tech

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

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Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.

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• Advocacy tech

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Procurement oversight

This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…

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Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

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• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

Democracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.

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• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

• air quality
• radiation

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• Emerging tech
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Innovation you want, businesses you love

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• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

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• The People
• Media

Coworker.org is a platform for worker voice. Find out why employees of some of the world's largest companies are using Coworker.org to win change.

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• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.

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• Data science for social good

Wenadata is a web-based, mobile-based and offline tool which gathers statistical data, and works with government, private sector companies and other institutions to help them collect opinions and help make better strategic decisions for citizens

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life

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• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Somos o Meu Rio, uma rede de ação por um Rio de Janeiro mais democrático, inclusivo e sustentável.Junte-se às mais de 300 mil pessoas que recebem nossos alertas e participam das decisões políticasque definem o futuro da cidade.

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Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.

• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects

The BSD Tools are designed to help you manage (and grow) inspiring, impactful digital programs - from fundraising to advocacy, communications to analytics.

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• Campaign tools

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• city
• urban planning
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Graveyard
• Emerging tech

The Vanguard conference is an experiential urban leadership gathering of rising urban leaders working to improve cities across sectors, including urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media. By selection only.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

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Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

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• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

• Access to Information Community of Practice

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• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

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• Engagement tech
• Civic data

Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.

• Life on land
• forests

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• Data science for social good

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

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• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Ekō is 22,823,008 people stopping big corporations from behaving badly.

• Campaign organizations

Enterprise Mobile Messaging that Drives Results

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• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

Taking control of our movement technology

• partisan

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• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Between 2015 and 2020, Doteveryone helped to provoke change in how tech is made and used so that it serves a fair, inclusive and sustainable democratic society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

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Celebrating Partnerships that Strengthen America

• youth

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• Foundational layers

the project to develop the public services app

• apps

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• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Our goal is to enable progressive candidates to win elected office. We’ll come up with creative solutions to overcome common problems faced by candidates, campaigns, community organizers, and voters.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

• Solutions journalism

Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.

• Climate action

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

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• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easily-digested information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.

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• Media
• Graveyard

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Hardware
• Digital literacy

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Bureaucracy tech

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

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• Govtech

Across the globe, government teams are pioneering new ways to solve our biggest challenges. States of Change is a collective that exists to support this growing global movement

• trainings

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• Govtech

Supernormal is an architecture, urban design, and research firm investigating the inevitable overlap of cultural and digital practice.

• city
• urban planning
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Civic data
• Data visualization

Follow My Vote aims to change the way we vote, becoming the world's first secure open-source online voting software based on blockchain technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

Every year 103 million Americans leave $80 billion in benefits unclaimed. We help inform consumers so they receive the benefits they’ve earned.

• Access social benefits
• Civic data APIs
• CRM