The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

A design toolkit for USAID staff on how to design inclusive digital technology interventions, written for work on global hunger but applicable in many other contexts.

• Zero hunger

• Design
• Playbooks and design principles
• Toolkits

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Creators and Influencers
• Public Relations and amplification

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

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

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) is a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations including BLVD Harambee.

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank - A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda. CTENs mission is to give community knowledge in digital technology for purposes of understanding and eventually building digital skills for employability, resulting in livelihoods resilience.

• refugees

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Co-design

We believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving PublicProblems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data,and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerfulsolutions to contemporary problems."

• Books

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• cities

• Design

Digital, tech, design, and data projects for social impact

• Social impact design firms

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world. But for all the benefits, technological developments have created new threats to our human rights. ORG exists to raise awareness of these threats and challenge them through public campaigns, media commentary, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects.

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We are a technology nonprofit committed to inspire and bring positive social change to the world. We harness the medium of innovative, digital technology to promote education, learning, and empowerment - the building blocks to lasting change.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Media

At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• The People

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

• The Tech
• Govtech

At Echo&Co, we don’t just sprinkle digital technology on top of social missions. As a digital practice, we pay attention to users and learn how they want to engage. Armed with that knowledge, we help our clients create user experiences that strengthen organizations, spur citizen engagement, improve communities, and make governments more effective.

• Civic and social impact companies

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

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

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Media

An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Partner networks

Villageois 2.0 is an association which aims to raise awareness among citizens of Guinea on the advantages and risks of ICTs. The association uses the internet, namely www.lesvillageois.org, to promote good governance, citizen control, open data, citizenship and human rights. Its aim is to demonstrate to Guinean citizens how digital technology can be used as a means of freedom of expression and a weapon against underemployment.

When we talk about digital identity, digital ID and digital identification, we are really describing how digital technology is altering identification programs - programs that existed before in analogue ways.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Identity

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech