Change the face of social impact engagement globally

• maternal health
• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Bots
• Emerging tech

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

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
• Adjacent Fields
• Media

Brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation & technology

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Wonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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

A FREE ONLINE CATALOG OF AFFORDABLE, SIMPLE TOOLS TO HELP YOU COLLECT DATA, COMMUNICATE WITH CLIENTS, AND MEASURE IMPACT

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

In the light of Hurricane Sandy displacing the region's businesses, this is a map of area business helping each other out. Here you will find locations to work, recharge, and reconnect.

• hurricanes

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Engagement tech

Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

• APIs

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic data

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

Videos showing the democratic process

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Foundational layers

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

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

Wukla is an online platform where users can create agreements and legal documents, and have these delivered to their house.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

LawyerLinx is a legal marketplace where individuals and businesses can find lawyers on demand.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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
• Adjacent Fields

Camouflage from face detection

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

• VPNs

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Media

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

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Law Strive is a website through which individuals and businesses can get instant legal advice, and hire lawyers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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

The Most Influential Young People in Government Across the World

• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

We're posting stories from people whose lives were saved or changed because they had access to affordable, compassionate healthcare through Planned Parenthood.

• women's health
• women

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Walking tours

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Notifica allows users to inform family members, legal advocates, and other contacts that they have been detained by the police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

• immigration

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Working groups
• Platform coops

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

On the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

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

Attorned is a platform that links clients to lawyers through a bidding system. It increases access to justice by presenting a large pool of lawyers from multiple sectors.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Project Callisto helps survivors of sexual assualt and harrasment on college campuses document sexual assault, seek counseling, and start an investigation.

• harassment

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Govtech

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

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

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Virtual Lawyer is a web-based platform where individuals can find legal assistance from a pool of virtual lawyers, based on their requirements.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Resources for the global digital safety training community.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Innovations in American Government Awards is the nation's preeminent program devoted to recognizing and promoting excellence and creativity in the public sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

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

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

"A five-member team of Amazon product and program managers connecting with nonprofits worldwide and are ready to respond to requests for resources during a disaster." - GovTech

• Amazon

• 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

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing