Meedan's Health Desk provides on-demand and on-deadline science information to users seeking to quickly communicate complex topics to audiences.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Reports

HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional crowd verification

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement journalism

The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund was created with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and is funded by USAID and DFID. It is implemented by the USAID-funded SHOPS project, and aims to uncover innovative and replicable solutions that address critical health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Cameroonian healthtech startup that helps Africans get quality and affordable healthcare services

• Good health and well-being

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Health Leads believes that a different kind of healthcare is possible...and we work to fulfill this vision.

• Access social benefits

One Idea, One Minute to Apply, and the Chance to Win $50,000!

• The People
• Competitions
• Get funding

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

WE help healthcare organizations find community services, track social needs, and coordinate referrals with community partners to radically improve the health of the people we serve.

• The Tech
• Access social benefits
• Resource matching and sharing

The Marketplace is a way to find health coverage that meets your needs and budget.

• Predecessors

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• COVID

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Messaging

Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award

• mental health
• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Data visualization

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

• Good health and well-being
• MOOCs

• Digital transformation
• Open knowledge

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.

In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public sphere.

• reports

• Reports
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Want To Use Mobile Health Data AND Have It To Make Sense? Get Started With Open Mhealth Today.

• Good health and well-being

• Data schemas and standards

By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.

• cities
• Good health and well-being

• Dashboards
• Indicators
• Evaluate impact

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

Community Leaders for Internet Health spotlights internet issues in diverse local community contexts and creates collaboration among local leaders to engage with tools for open campaigning towards Internet Health. Our program enables people in underrepresented regions to assess the state of the Internet in their community and share their stories on the challenges and opportunities encountered

Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.

• civic features
• COVID-19
• Facebook

• COVID
• Advertising
• COVID Media Projects

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• COVID
• Media

The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the status quo.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• Bots
• COVID Engagement Projects

• The Tech
• Hardware
• Emerging tech

"Find Local Help is a tool from CMS, which runs HealthCare.gov, that connects people to in-person, one-on-one help signing up for health insurance. Users can enter their location and get a list of local experts who can help them complete the process for free." - Ad Hoc

• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization

Civic X Syllabus is a roadmap to learning about civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.

• Reading lists

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data visualization

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

Led by Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson, the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab explores emerging scientific and technological phenomena (including genomics, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and public health) and their intersections with the fulfillment of civil, political, and social citizenship

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

We fund new technologies to cultivate internet freedom.

• Get funding
• Decentralization

WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles.

• Good health and well-being
• Wikipedia

• Open knowledge

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition
• Artificial Intelligence

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

• Artificial Intelligence

A hub of technologists dedicated to building technology for Reproductive Justice

• women's health

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

MANO BALSAS LT is a rational voting system on the internet. On this website, people are invited to take a short test and find out which politicians or parties align closest to their views.

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes