The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

Generate text, code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Generate text, Code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Digital transformation

Code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

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

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

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.

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

OpenGrants delivers a best-in-class database of grant funding and a marketplace of grant writers, consultants and technical assistance providers. Integrate the power of OpenGrants into your product using our API.

• APIs

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people

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

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

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

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

A virtual assistant for Filipinos on social welfare.

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Bots

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

USAID’s first Digital Strategy charts an agency-wide approach to development in a rapidly evolving digital age.

• Govtech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Digital transformation

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Guides.vote produces nonpartisan voters guides that show where candidates stand. They’re produced by veteran journalists with links to credible sources. Whether you vote by mail or head to the polls, our guides let you do it with confidence

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Citizens Advice is a network of 316 independent charities throughout the United Kingdom that give free, confidential information and advice to assist people with money, legal, consumer and other problems.

The African Elections Project : your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The Association of Non-Profit Organizations "In Defense of Voters' Rights"

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.

• Conferences
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors

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

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Election observation

Access Lab é uma empresa que trabalha o acesso de pessoas com deficiência e S/surdas à cultura e ao entretenimento enquanto direito humano fundamental.

• Adjacent Fields
• Hubs
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

El acceso a los servicios de la información y la comunicación y las personas con discapacidad - Un estudio exploratorio realizado en la región del Cono Sur

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Vote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.

• youth

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms

Mchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.

• Voting and elections
• Factchecking
• Voter assistance tech

YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Adjacent Fields
• Hardware
• Innovation teams and labs

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Trustmarks

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The GDS Accessibility team has created 7 different accessibility personas. Each persona has different access needs.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Part of the Data Detox Kit

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Digital literacy
• Voter assistance tech