The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

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

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

#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

The Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.

• reports

• Media
• Fieldwide resources
• Benchmarks

Short for “human experience,” HX is an approach to talking about, engaging with, and designing technology in a way that is aligned with our needs as humans — not users.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest online community and repository of electoral knowledge.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Некоммерческий образовательный проект для гражданских активистов и IT-специалистов

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Media

We are building an emerging field of internet research with a feminist approach, to inform and influence activism and policymaking.

• Gender Equality

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
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

• apps
• students
• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Community Lattice is a social enterprise that helps communities understand and optimize land revitalization programs, like EPA Brownfields, as a pathway to environmental and climate justice.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

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

Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. Read our intro

• Get funding
• Open philanthropy
• Effective altruism

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Digital rights

Providing democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space

• Govtech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Bits of Freedom was founded in 1999. We influence policies and legislation to support an open and fair information society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress

• reports

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

In order to encourage more outstanding talents to invest in the new-type democratic experiment field and accelerate the incubation of more achievements, the g0v zero-hour government loosening group of Dasong is held on a regular basis.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Catalist is a social impact network and digital library where you can discover projects, events, and opportunities to change the world.

• Fieldwide resources
• Expert networks

A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation
• News and blogs

Taghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

Summarizes tech terms and conditions in a more legible format

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Access Lab é uma empresa que trabalha o acesso de pessoas com deficiência e S/surdas à cultura e ao entretenimento enquanto direito humano fundamental.

• Adjacent Fields
• Hubs
• Meeting tech

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Nonprofit tech
• Digital literacy

El acceso a los servicios de la información y la comunicación y las personas con discapacidad - Un estudio exploratorio realizado en la región del Cono Sur

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Una herramienta para conocer qué saben las empresas sobre vos

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.

• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

A suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.

• harassment

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Adjacent Fields
• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Information Futures Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the ongoing information crisis.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Easily translate dynamic websites & apps while eliminating tedious file transfers from your localization workflow.

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Transifex is the world's largest localization community for open source projects

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

This overview highlights resources that are available for TU Delft researchers in their Open Science journey.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Citizen science
• Open civic data

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Every day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

• Engagement tech
• Citizen Engagement

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

• students

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Information Resistance is a non-governmental project whose main task is to counteract in the information field external threats arising for Ukraine in the main areas: military, economic and energy, as well as in information security.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis