Open Procurement: digital transformation in procurement

• Participatory budgeting
• Procurement

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Communicating with the people

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The main goal of CiviCERT is to improve the incident response capabilities of NGOs, journalists and involved citizens all around the world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest

• experiments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Intelligence driving public sector performance

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing questions for the Internet.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

digital für sozial

• Civic and social impact companies

Este observatório pretende constituir-se como um centro de recursos para o conhecimento dos processos participativos existentes em Portugal.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

MobLab enables global campaigners to build a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world by equipping them with strategies, tools, tactics, and partners.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Digital literacy

Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We help governments and communities in Canada harness the power of digital.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone

One of South America's leading campaign and tech organizations

• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits
• Campaign organizations

The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Security First’s flagship Umbrella app gives you free digital and physical security advice when you need it most.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Camouflage from face detection

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We are an applied research lab dedicated to innovating the ways people participate in civic life and expanding the study of citizenship in a digital era.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

• VPNs

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

This is a growing collection of games that improve city making

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Programul guvernamental care ii aduce laolalta pe cei care cred intr-un viitor digital pentru Romania

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

To promote charitable projects that want to implement an innovative digital idea to strengthen our democracy.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.

• indigenous

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Open App Stack allows you to simply manage your own cloud applications

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled

• Digital security and privacy

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. These simple tools make it easy to work with data in fun ways, so you can learn how to find great stories to tell.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Established in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.

• The People
• Get funding
• Digital security and privacy

Perquè la democràcia es fa entre tots i totes.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

The Big Data from the South Initiative is a space for theoretical and empirical exchange on the challenges of datafication and massive data collection as they unfold in the plurality of South(s) inhabiting our increasingly complex world.

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

Resources for the global digital safety training community.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Data governance

Wir erforschen und erproben digitale Werkzeuge um gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen, Verwaltung und Unternehmen die Zukunft Berlins zu gestalten.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups

"A tool to help Democratic campaigns sift through data on hundreds of millions of people across the U.S....It will help campaigns decide who to call, text, email and target with digital advertisements during this contentious and unprecedented election year and beyond."

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

This lab anticipates, assists with, and responds to various legal issues unique to internet freedom projects.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy