Using AI to make journalism better. Together.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Conferences

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy in the United Kingdom.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Nonprofit tech
• Games and gamification

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

​​The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media literacy
• Consumer watchdogging

While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Working groups

The SaveTheInternet campaign is a volunteer led effort to uphold a fair and open Internet. Over 1 million Indian citizens have participated at one point or another in the campaign that was started by a group of like minded individuals across India in May 2015.

• Adjacent Fields
• Net neutrality

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

The ‘Zombie Tracker’ is a platform which monitors cases which include a charge under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act 2000 (as amended in 2008).

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Policy explainers

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good.

• Get funding
• Holidays

#SaveOurPrivacy is an online collective launched in May, 2018 to safeguard your privacy and ensure a citizen centric data protection law.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Lyft updates its free rides to the polls program with a half-off discount for 2022 US elections, potentially due to belt-tightening

• commercial

• Voting and elections
• Getting to the polls

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

"The applications allow users to view how a bill would change current law and differences between proposed legislation." URL will only work for US Capitol Hill IP addresses

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

Connect and live more safely. Citizen is a personal safety network that empowers you to protect yourself and the people and places you care about. Download for COVID-19 contact tracing, access to real-time 911 alerts, instant help from crisis responders, and safety tracking for friends and families. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv88q/citizen-los-angeles-car-private-security https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/business/citizen-app-arson-wildfire-devin-hilton.html

• apps
• crime

Namati convenes the Legal Empowerment Network. In 2021, our membership grew to over 11,000 individuals and over 2,800 groups from 170 countries.

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank - A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the

The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest online community and repository of electoral knowledge.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Transparency International EU is part of the global anti-corruption movement, Transparency International, which includes over 100 chapters around the world. Since 2008, Transparency International EU has functioned as a regional liaison office for the global movement and as such it works closely with the Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin, Germany.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and

• Engagement tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The CR Digital Lab offers paid, non-resident fellowships to study the effects of connected products and services.  Fellows will undertake research to increase transparency and advance consumers’ interests in the marketplace—devising new testing frameworks, tools, and procedures to evaluate values such as privacy, security, and fairness. Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse community of technologists, leverage CR’s physical labs and testing infrastructure, and communicate findings to manufacturers, policymakers, and the public. Applications for our 2020 non-resident fellowships are now closed. We appreciate your interest and hope that you will consider applying next year when we reopen applications for the 2021 season.

• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

network of digital rights defenders in Southeast Asia which was established on 27 June 2013 in Bali, Indonesia

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 200 public interest groups and trade unions concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

Providus has been Latvia’s leading public policy think tank since 2002. Our mission is to promote evidence-based policy and open society values.

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent

• Gender Equality
• women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots

El Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina (OCMAL) nace formalmente en marzo del año 2007 en un encuentro realizado en Oruro, Bolivia. Fue la materialización de un anhelo ampliamente esperado por diversas organizaciones que llevaban tiempo colaborándose para establecer estrategias de resistencia y alternativas a la minería en América Latina.

• mining

• Watchdogging and transparency

The Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch) ceased operations as of March 2016. The majority of work and materials has been passed on to the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). This site is being maintained as an archive of materials produced.

• Supporting public sector from outside government

Open Data Project Web Peru

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

As of 2013, iSolon.org’s primary project has been providing state-by-state information clearinghouses regarding upcoming periodic state constitutional convention referendums. iSolon also maintains a central information clearinghouse for the fourteen U.S. states with such periodic referendums.

• state

• Constitutions

deepfakes How good are you at spotting political deepfakes? Test yourself with the latest version of Detect Fakes, featuring a series of both real videos and deepfakes of the two most recent US presidents. The goal of this work, developed by researchers in the Affective Computing and Viral Communications research groups, is to "prebunk" deepfakes—videos manipulated by neural networks—by

ENEMO is an international organization, a network composed of 22 national election monitoring CSOs from 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three European Union countries.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Election oversight

Watchdog publication in Ukraine, last posts from 2011

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Nous sommes l’Open Knowledge Foundation France, un groupe local de l’Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), créé en décembre 2012.

• culture

• Open knowledge

Aliancia Fair-play je štandardné neziskové a nestranícke občianske združenie, ktoré v roku 2002 založila bývalá novinárka Zuzana Wienk.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency