A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

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• Funders & donors
• Build something

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity
• Open knowledge

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Citizen Engagement
• Research tools

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

• Open knowledge
• Open science

A blockchain-based platform for decentralized "network states"

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Research tools

When founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.

• Media
• Journalism
• Evaluate impact

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital security and privacy

This tool was intended to help you and your organization understand and track your email newsletter metrics

• Media
• Graveyard
• Journalism

We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

• Digital security and privacy
• Help out
• Cybersecurity

Summer open data training and materials piloted in 2023

• trainings

• Civic data

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundation initiatives

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

• Participatory democracy
• Foundation initiatives

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Moja WiFi is a turnkey Solution for monetizing public WiFi networks

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI) established to hold its key purpose to support civil society organizations that use or intend to use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their respective countries to hold their public institutions transparent and accountable

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Foundation initiatives

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

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• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

We are a coordinating alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies. Our goal is to create an ecosystem of interlocking solutions for the needs of people on the run.

• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association) is the leading organisation for foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good in Europe. It aims to create connections and knowledge sharing between its members.

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• Funders & donors

The Welcome Alliance is an alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies initiated by ProjectTogether. Our goal is humane, needs-oriented and sustainable integration and participation of all new immigrants in Germany.

• immigration
• housing
• Decent work and economic growth

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

Gather user-generated content for powerful testimonial campaigns. Volunteers can share a personal video (or photo) about why they support your cause, laying the foundation for engaging digital content pushes or lobbying efforts.

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story tech

The registrars behind top-level domains .ORG, .CHARITY, ,FOUNDATION, .GIVES, .NGO, .ONG, .орг, .机构, and .संगठन domain names

• Nonprofit tech
• Internet governance

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

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• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

• Participatory democracy

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

• cities

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Foundation initiatives

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

• Data science for social good
• Evaluate impact

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• Digital standards

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

We provide resources to reimagine project-restricted giving

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• Playbooks and design principles
• Foundation initiatives

Open data platform in Madagascar

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Build something

The Responsible Computing Challenge - supported by the Mellon Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, USAID, Mozilla - fund academic teams that combine faculty and practitioners from Computing, Humanities, Library and Information Science, and Social Science fields in order to reimagine how the next generation of technologists will be educated.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

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• Emerging tech
• Foundation initiatives