We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Help out

Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina

• taxes

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• In-person meetings

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning

FairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.

• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns
• Democratic Innovations

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

• hate speech
• diaspora

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

GoodParty.org empowers Independent candidates to run for office, win their elections, and serve their communities.

• Civic tech communities and platforms
• third party
• campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Organize campaigns

The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

The 2004 project that used comedy and live theatrical performances to protest against former President George W Bush

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Predecessors

A Escola de Ativismo é um coletivo independente constituído em 2011 com a missão de fortalecer grupos ativistas por meio de processos de aprendizagem em estratégias e técnicas de ações não-violentas e criativas, campanhas, comunicação, mobilização e segurança e proteção integral, voltadas para a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

We build and maintain data systems designed for the specific data needs of progressive organizations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Command Line Phone Number Buyer for Twilio

• Advocacy tech
• Peer to peer SMS

Long-running progressive digital organizing group based in the US

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Accelerators

US-based campaign vendor that does SMS, email fundraising, paid media, direct mail, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

150+ members pooling email audience information to drive list growth, donor growth, reactivation, and advocacy

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Email campaign tools

Citizens' movement to practice democracy by sortition. Notable twist includes winning a seat in Brussels Parliament, where their elected representative must act on behalf of 50 residents chosen by lot.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Democratic Innovations

Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform

• Advocacy tech
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Daisychain helps progressive organizations engage their audiences through powerful workflows and authentic conversations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• CRM

The discussion list has over 3,800 members from all over the world, from a wide range of disciplines including: campaigners, designers, content creators, fundraisers, academics, agencies, vendors and much more

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Influencer marketing platform

• commercial

• Advocacy tech
• Creators and Influencers

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

An award-winning, minority-owned strategic consulting firm FOR campaign strategy, direct mail, & digital programs

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Audience development and analytic-driven communications for campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

We knock on Americans’ new, digital front doors one text at a time. Our volunteers’ actions directly impact millions and lay the long-term groundwork for a just, equitable, and progressive America.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Peer to peer SMS
• Voter registration

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Archives

Unified is a social network for organizers, activists, and everyone that wants to build a better world. In private Alpha.

• Advocacy tech
• Social networks

Frank can instantly provide you a custom and private digital organizing platform.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

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

PDI has partnered with progressive campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy groups for more than 30 years to help them win on Election Day.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize 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
• Campaign organizations
• Partner networks and coalitions

Organizing 2.0 is a collective of communicators and online organizers working for unions and social justice activists

• trainings

• Advocacy tech

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

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
• Campaign tools

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

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

With its partners, OCHA contributes to principled and effective humanitarian response through coordination, advocacy, policy, information management and humanitarian financing tools and services.

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

The Media Ownership Monitor is a global research and advocacy initiative that creates transparency on “who owns the media?” - and ultimately answers the question “who controls the media?” through contextualization and analysis.

• Media
• Media monitoring