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.

• 2023 Webby Awards
• campaigns

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Specific campaigns

Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.

• racial equity
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Regulation

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Cybersecurity

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency
• Artistic interventions

An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Fieldwide resources

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

Building a movement to get more feet on the street™

• place-based

• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns

Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Smart Cities and sensors

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• Activism aggregators

Founded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

We aim to translate activist power into political power by changing how we develop campaign leadership.

• trainings

• Fellowships
• Advocacy tech

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

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

• Crowdsourcing
• Narrative tech
• Story tech

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

• Organize campaigns
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Specific campaigns
• Advocacy tech

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Justice tech

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Awards and prizes
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Organize campaigns
• Petitions
• Advocacy tech

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Whistleblowing
• Media
• Solidarity networks

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Organize campaigns
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Organize events
• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Peer networks
• Funders & donors

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

• surveillance

• Crowdsourcing
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

The SaveTheInternet campaign is a volunteer led effort to uphold a fair and open Internet. Over 1 million Indian citizens have participated at one point or another in the campaign that was started by a group of like minded individuals across India in May 2015.

• Adjacent Fields
• Net neutrality

#SaveOurPrivacy is an online collective launched in May, 2018 to safeguard your privacy and ensure a citizen centric data protection law.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights
• Campaign organizations

We unite, organise, and mobilise progressive forces around the world. Get Involved We are turning Black Friday into Make Amazon Pay Day

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.

• Organize campaigns
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Campaign organizations
• Advocacy tech

Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html

• cities

Fresher, more affordable data on current and potential voters Whether you’re looking to mobilize people across the country or register voters in targeted districts, we’re here to help.

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

A clever campaign riffing on Spotify's Unwrapped year-in-review product, by Fight for the Future and Union of Musicians and Allied Workers. https://github.com/fightforthefuture/spotifyunwrapped.org

• Spotify
• labor

Download California campaign finance data with easeAn open-source archive of the data tracking money in state politics. Now hosted at BigLocalNews

Quorum is the mobile app & digital platform to connect, engage and mobilise. ✔️ Action-focused tools for on the field & digital organising ✔️ Globally trusted, easy-to-use and available in your language

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools
• Campaign tools

All Out is a global movement for love and equality. We're mobilizing thousands of people to build a world where no person will have to sacrifice their family or freedom, safety or dignity, because of who they are or who they love.

• human rights
• LGBTQI

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

CandidateWatch is a non-partisan, non-profit project which helps to make election campaigning more transparent and politicians more accountable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

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.

• Election observation
• Voting and elections

ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.

• human rights
• criminal justice

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

A guide

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Targeting

The Digital Hub for Pro-Democracy Advocates

• Organize campaigns
• Media
• Creators and Influencers

Short case studies and guides to using free tools to create campaign videos

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech

Short case studies on how to use free or low-cost tools to produce campaign infographics

• Organize campaigns
• Infographics