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

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

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

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

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

#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

For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.

• Ballot information

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

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

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

El Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, IIDH/CAPEL, es un programa especializado del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The Campaign for Freedom of Information has been promoting and defending freedom of information in the UK for 38 years.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

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

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

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Ma Dada est un site associatif qui vous aide à faire des demandes d’accès aux documents administratifs communicables.

mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated,first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data,applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly,cheaply, and efficiently. The Challenge generated an overwhelming response:78 applicant cities shared the challenges they face and ideas for how totackle them.

• cities
• mass transit

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

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

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

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy
• Books

Chiediamo dati aperti e machine readable sull’emergenza Covid-19

• Civic data
• Specific campaigns
• Open government data

Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

Bethnal Green's Directory of over 80 impact organisations in tech for good

• Civic tech catalogs

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis
• Public sentiment tools

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

• X (Twitter)
• Reddit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft. cekfakta.com pertama kali diluncurkan di acara ‘Trusted Media Summit 2018’ yang diadakan di Jakarta pada Sabtu, 5 Mei 2018 setelah penandatangan MOU oleh 22 Pemred dan Ketua Mafindo.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA)​ and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking