Social Source Commons is a place to share lists of software tools that you already use, gain knowledge and support, and discover new tools

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Red Blue Voice was a social network providing users with tools to broadcast their social and political messages.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Access to the national budget is every citizen's right.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Budget explorers

This is a growing collection of games that improve city making

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Media and social media analysis

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Graveyard
• Civic maps
• Mapping

The American people expect to interact with government through digital channels such as websites, email, and mobile applications. By building digital services that meet their needs, we can make the delivery of our policy and programs more effective.

• United States (federal government)

• Playbooks and design principles

MEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

We're posting stories from people whose lives were saved or changed because they had access to affordable, compassionate healthcare through Planned Parenthood.

• women's health
• women

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

Notifica allows users to inform family members, legal advocates, and other contacts that they have been detained by the police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

• immigration

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The nonpartisan, nonprofit National Institute on Money in State Politics promotes an accountable democracy by compiling comprehensive campaign-donor, lobbyist, and other information from government disclosure agencies nationwide and making it freely available at FollowTheMoney.org.

• state

• Watchdogging and transparency

Janaagraha’s mission is to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Factba.se is a transparency engine, allowing any PAC, campaign, organization, or company efficiently track and search every word a person has ever said, publicly or online, in real time. This lets you immediately identify discrepancies, changes in position, tonal shifts and areas of weakness.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Croatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Shared Nation is a new form of civic engagement that allows thousands of people to pool resources and make collective decisions in order to have a big impact on global issues.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

makesense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Working groups
• Platform coops

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

• Organize campaigns
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Smart Cities Dive provides the latest news and trends on sustainable, connected and livable cities.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

It let people set up pledges in the form: ‘I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me’.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.

• indigenous

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

RALLY.org makes it easy for individuals, groups, social causes and non-profits to fundraise online with no minimum donation requirements.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Walking tours

AI Confessions

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

We’re transforming how we think about power, who holds it, and how we wield it in our communities — we’re looking at power in every context, and speaking truth to it.

• trainings
• workshops

• Organize campaigns
• Workshops

Run Women Run inspires, recruits, trains, mentors and supports pro-choice women for elected and appointed office.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

The laws MPs are voting on this week, explained in plain English. Landing in your inbox every Sunday.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Shape the future of public policy with Plural’s intuitive, AI-powered legislative tracking and stakeholder collaboration tools. Effectively influence US federal and state legislation and say goodbye to clunky legacy software and manual spreadsheets.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Established in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Get funding

With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Driving business growth through effective marketing

• Organize campaigns
• Digital rights

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

See how Obama performed on 40 of the promises he made during his two presidential campaigns.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.

• Climate action
• research

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

We’ve worked with more than 1,000 different social enterprise start-ups operating in more than 100 different countries since 2004.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Resources for the global digital safety training community.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

The Black to the Future Public Policy Institute is a policy advocacy and leadership training fellowship that provides the tools needed to transform Black communities into constituencies that wield independent, Black political power at the municipal, state, and federal level.

• racial equity

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

Social entrepreneurship is the heart of NESsT's mission in emerging markets: empowering each sustainable business to create jobs and fight poverty.

• No poverty

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

• Data schemas and standards