The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Find a job or hire someone

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

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Helping You Move Beyond Debt

• Decent work and economic growth

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• Media
• Games and gamification

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

​​The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• cities

• Civic data
• Incubators

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

(a project of the Citizen Power Foundation)

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

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

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
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people are informed and empowered, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good.

• Foundation initiatives
• Open philanthropy

Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Peer networks

A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Foundation initiatives

Leveraging digital data in ways that advance your mission and respect the rights of the people you serve is a core capacity of foundations and nonprofits in the 21st century. That’s why the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society created the Digital Impact Toolkit—to support civil society organizations in using digital data ethically, safely, and effectively.

• Nonprofit tech
• Toolkits
• Digital transformation

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

A free book on how to survive on social media networks

• books

• Books
• Social media

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy
• Books

The Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund is a new US$4.5 million fund created by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2020, to provide grants to external organizations that support knowledge equity by addressing the racial inequities preventing access and participation in free knowledge.

• Get funding
• Diversity & Inclusion

Data Artistry is a skills development programme aimed and building data communication skills among development professionals.

• trainings

• Civic data

Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Nonprofit tech

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

• Civic hackathons

a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Taiwan’s first fact-checking center was jointly supported by the Taiwan Media Observation Education Foundation and the Quality Journalism Development Association.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Fact-checking and media literacy

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy