We equip progressive leaders and movements with innovative digital solutions to make social change possible

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.

• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Training Program provides an in-depth understanding of today’s most pressing privacy and data protection topics.

• trainings

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital literacy

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital literacy

Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

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

The Guardian Project Podcast

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Podcasts

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

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

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

• Digital rights

We invest in digital solutions to climate change.

• Climate action

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

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

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Bureaucracy tech

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

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

Open Internet For All

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Cybersecurity
• Digital literacy

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Journalism

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

LocalGov Drupal is a publicly owned asset that delivers a better digital experience for citizens, improves service outcomes, and saves money.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• State and regional government technology

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• Digital standards

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Roundtables

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Hubs
• Citizen Engagement

This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Reports

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Madagascar Initiatives for Digital Innovation est une association à but non lucratif régie par l'Ordonnance n°60-133 du 03 octobre 1960. L'objectif est de promouvoir l' E-Democracy - l'Open Data et le Datajournalisme à Madagascar.

• Civic data

IT for Change is an NGO based in Bengaluru, India. IT for Change aims for a society in which digital technologies contribute to human rights, social justice and equity.

• Gender Equality
• Quality education

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Internet governance

We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).

• reports

• Fieldwide resources

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Tech or Digital Policy

We Build Digital Tools for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

The vision of Code for Sri Lanka is to improve the technology that runs Sri Lanka by voluntarily helping government organizations to digitally transform in alignment with the vision for a digital Sri Lanka.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Resource matching and sharing

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.

A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Secure the Future of Mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Archives

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy