"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network

• Media
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

Pushing the Boundaries of Scientific Innovation to Create a Smarter, Sustainable, and Resilient Future for Communities

• Govtech
• Foundation initiatives
• Public Private Partnerships

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

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

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Since 1968, our nonpartisan insight and analysis has helped power the decisions of policymakers, civic leaders, and the general public across a wide spectrum of beliefs and backgrounds.

If you are new to low-cost and open hardware and open science, start your exploration with the introduction to low-cost and open source tools toolkit!

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Real-time flood sensors were developed by the FloodSense project at NYU and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), with a goal of providing information on the presence, frequency, and depth of hyperlocal street-level flood events to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, government agencies, citizens, emergency response teams, community advocacy groups, and researchers.

• floods

• Civic maps

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Data governance

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

A collective of solutions journalists

• Media
• Peer networks
• Solutions journalism

Help Workers Recover Stolen Wages Free, Safe, and Simple

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Advocacy tech
• Justice tech

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

• state

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

We Build Digital Tools for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Co-design

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

• city

• Get funding
• Connectivity

A platform to consolidate emergency medical needs across a country, create aid packages of medicines and supplies, centralize supplier quotations, select most cost-effective supplier, and match donors willing to fund aid packages.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Fundraising tools

We are Environmental Defense Fund, the organization that is all-in on climate — the greatest challenge of our time. Our game-changing solutions put people at the center of all we do.

• Climate action
• Life below water
• Good health and well-being

The vision of Code for Sri Lanka is to improve the technology that runs Sri Lanka by voluntarily helping government organizations to digitally transform in alignment with the vision for a digital Sri Lanka.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A better and faster way to track methane

• Climate action
• methane

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

School of Geography and Environment, a university department known for its research and teaching in the field of geography and environmental studies, along with its affiliated research centers and networks.

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

The mission of ANHD is to build community power to win affordable housing and thriving, equitable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers

• housing

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Discover social impact jobs supporting the Sustainable Development Goals at mission-driven organizations.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Nonprofit tech
• Job boards

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Research and policy centers
• Data science for social good
• Academia

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

The Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Fight disinformation

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Build something

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Resource matching and sharing

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Pro bono and volunteer

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

• Crowdsourcing
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Hearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.

• Media
• Engagement journalism

The Floodplain Management Platform for Resilient Communities

• floods

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.

• courses

• Media
• Online courses

Hearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.

• Media
• Socialize online
• Civic forums

Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.

• Media
• Surveys & polling
• Engagement journalism

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Find a job or hire someone

Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş ve depremi yoğun bir şekilde hisseden Güneydoğu Anadolu illerinde sokakta kalan vatandaşlara

• earthquakes

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

See both sides of important issues— in 5 minutes a day.

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Loconomics Cooperative was an app for booking local services owned by local service professionals.

• labor
• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Platform coops

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia

• Media