Civic Tech Field Guide

Digital Rights Fund for West Asia and North Africa

Beirut

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia)

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

Eurasia Foundation

Eurasia Foundation envisions a world where all people have the opportunity to realize their potential and transform their societies.

Funders & donors

South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR)

SEATTI - Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiatives

Indonesia

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI) established to hold its key purpose to support civil society organizations that use or intend to use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their respective countries to hold their public institutions transparent and accountable

Give Asia

Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)

civic crowdfunding platform based in Korea

Центральноазиатская медиапрограмма MediaCAMP Award Central Asia

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

Deliberative Democracy in Asia

China (Zhong Guo)

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

books

Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet)

Bali

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

The Asian Network for Free Elections

105 Suthisarnwinichai Road, Huaykwang, Samsennok, Bangkok 10320 Thailand

The three sections of our work, Election Observation, Capacity Building and Campaign & Advocacy are different parts of ANFREL’s holistic approach to the promotion of democratic institutions. These divisions, while different, support one another.

South Asia Check

Kathmandu, Nepal

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

Europe and Eurasia Regional Election Management Body Working Group on Social Media, Disinformation and Electoral Integrity

#WildEye Asia

Asia

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

animals

AACR Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange

Report: AI Governance in Southeast Asia

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.

Artificial Intelligence

Make a Difference Asia

Hong Kong

Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.

Digital Asia Hub

Hong Kong

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

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

The OSCE stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. With 57 States from Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization.

Govtech

interweave.gov

London

Your weekly insight into GovTech collaboration and innovation in Europe and Asia

Civic Sight

Hong Kong

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

APAC Cybersecurity Fund

San Francisco

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

digisec.directory

The Digital Security Community Directory of security and safety resources available in various Southeast Asian languages

EngageMedia Digital Rights program

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

IDinsight

Africa

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

Name Reclaim

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

Beyond Borders: Satellite Applications for Humanitarian Emergencies

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

reports

European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO)

Citizen's Association MOST, Vancho Mickov 18b, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

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.

In.CoDe: Indonesia’s Competition for Civic Tech Apps

Indonesia

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

Civic hackathons

Cyber News Verification Lab

Hong Kong

This project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

Flying Labs

We co-create and facilitate a network of local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on existing expertise in drones, data and AI, the “Flying Labs®” network.

Drones

Open for Good Alliance

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

trainings

AAPI Data

Riverside, CA, USA

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Disinfo Defense League

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

Open Up Contracting

Hivos Foundation, Grote Marktstraat, The Hague, Netherlands

A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

Greenpeace Unilever campaign

Greenpeace USA, Southeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Portland, OR, USA

As the biggest single buyer of palm oil in the world, Unilever has a special responsibility to help clean up the industry that's behind so much forest destruction. Thanks to the staggering public support for our international Dove campaign in April 2008, Unilever has now agreed to play their part in saving the Paradise Forests of South East Asia.

Civic Solidarity Platform

A platform that brings together non-governmental organizations committed to improving the human rights situation in Europe, Eurasia and North America. Its aim is to serve as a conduit through which civic activists can build alliances, strengthen mutual support and solidarity, and improve their influence on national and international human rights policy.

Open Cities Africa

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

Jabar Digital Service

Jl. Diponegoro No.22, Citarum, Kec. Bandung Wetan, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40115

Jabar Digital Service (JDS) atau Unit Pelaksana Teknis Pengelola Layanan Digital, Data, dan Informasi Geospasial adalah sebuah unit di bawah Dinas Komunikasi dan Informatika Provinsi Jawa Barat yang dicita-citakan dapat mempersempit kesenjangan digital, membantu efisiensi dan akurasi pengambilan kebijakan berbasis data dan teknologi, serta merevolusi pemakaian teknologi dalam kehidupan masyarakat serta pemerintahan di Jawa Barat.

Democratic Innovation in Megacities

NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.