How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evaluate impact

Political Arena is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power where no two playthroughs are the same

• Media
• Games and gamification

Campaign to rally everyone who works on apps for a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions, and a voice in their work

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

PowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Campaign organizations

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

• guides
• partisan
• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Mobilize communities, raise money, and engage supporters with tools built for teams just like yours.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools

A tool designed for organizers on the go, giving them needed information at their fingertips to grow power and win real change.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• CRM

ProgressiveActs is a start-up that supports grassroots civic and political mobilization through a package of services and advanced technological tools.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

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

Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API

• X (Twitter)

• Fight disinformation
• Specific campaigns

Storytelling AND advocacy campaigns for movements.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

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

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

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

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

Database of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

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
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Voting and elections

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

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

EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology, and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet, and open technologies to create social and environmental change.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights

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

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• News and blogs

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

We equip progressive leaders and movements with innovative digital solutions to make social change possible

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Mapping
• Specific campaigns
• Location

In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Cybersecurity

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

This narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.

• No poverty
• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Narrative tech
• Specific campaigns
• Story-based campaigns

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

• 2023 Webby Awards
• campaigns
• Asian and Pacific Islander

• Specific campaigns
• Civic features
• Diversity & Inclusion

A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.

• racial equity
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Report cards and audits

An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

Building a movement to get more feet on the street™

• place-based

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Mapping

Founded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We aim to translate activist power into political power by changing how we develop campaign leadership.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Fellowships

Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

• Crowdsourcing
• Narrative tech
• Consumer watchdogging

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers
• Organize campaigns

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps