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

An award for the best games for social impact of the year

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Games and gamification
• Awards and prizes

Computer scientists for e-democracy Facebook Group

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

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

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Build something
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Social impact design firms

Create and Explore world-changing petitions, events, fundraisers, and boycotts all in one place.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Fundraising tools
• Activism aggregators
• Petitions

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

Meedan's Health Desk provides on-demand and on-deadline science information to users seeking to quickly communicate complex topics to audiences.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Games and gamification

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• city
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Urban planning
• Manifestos

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

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, chair of the Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, introduces you to the Initiative's work and this tour.

• racial equity
• history
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Walking tours

Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.

• Ukraine
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Participatory memorials

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research tools

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

• Civic data
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

We invest in digital solutions to climate change.

• Climate action

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

Conoce todo sobre el proceso de elección del Fiscal General del Ministerio Público de Guatemala

• podcasts

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

Governments Post Bids, Businesses Get Notified, eBidding Makes It Easy

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Grant management

Bonfire provides software that helps procurement teams and stakeholders come together to make smarter buying decisions, easily and with certainty.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Procurement

GTY brings leading government technology companies together to empower the government workforce with digital tools to transform the citizen and stakeholder experience.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Govtech vendors

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

A transportation operating system for orchestrating, governing, and powering modern mobility.

• streetscape
• mobility

• Govtech
• Urban planning

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Budget explorers

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Located on the second floor of our headquarters at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., the Workplace Innovation Lab showcases the latest innovations in office design, furniture, and technology to meet the needs of today’s hybrid federal workers.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Remote government

Free online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

An AI tool that detected cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter. Site broken by Twitter's policy change.

• anti-harassment
• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Graveyard
• Media and social media analysis

The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Brave Conversations seeks to explore the inter-relationship betweens humans, society and technology - as we develop smart tecnologies we need to become smarter humans!

This toolbox provides support to local governments that are interested in creating a Citizens Budget. It contains the basic steps in the process and inspiring examples, which fully equips the reader to start developing their own Citizen Budget.

• Govtech
• Budget explorers

Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Open Internet For All

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech

An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency

This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.

• city

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer networks

Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them

• Adjacent Fields
• Cybersecurity
• Digital literacy

We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Building in the private sector