Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Through various tools on its website, MyLawBC provides legal aid, legal advice, information and representation topeople facing a legal problem.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Nigerian Law blog publishes blogposts to educate users on legal issues. It also engages users through social media by publishing information about laws and citizens’ rights.

The MADD programme will provide candidates with the Master Key to create comprehensible and meaningful ways to connect people with information.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Academic programs

Each of our lectures will explore one specific facet of bullshit. For each week, a set of required readings are assigned. For some weeks, supplementary readings are also provided for those who wish to delve deeper.

• The People
• Fight disinformation
• Learn about civic tech

Validated Real Time Information

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

The first national magazine covering information technology in state and local government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

BallotReady is an online voter guide to local elections. We make it easy to vote informed on every candidate all across America.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The Open Data Barometer for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 24 countries and classifies governments according to readiness for open data initiatives, implementation of open data programs, and impact that open data is having on companies, politics and civil society.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

Haki Law App intends to make knowledge about laws easily accessible. The mobile application provides legalinformation and connects citizens to lawyers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Empowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

CrossCheck is a collaborative journalism project that brings together newsrooms across France and beyond to accurately report false and misleading claims.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Our goal is to exponentially accelerate our ability to address global challenges that threaten our existence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

• anti-trafficking

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Martus was a free, open source, secure information collection and management tool that empowers these rights activists to be stronger in their fight against injustice and abuse.

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Digital security and privacy

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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
• The People
• Media

Open data meetup

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Code for America partnered with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Nava Public Benefit Corporation to conduct pilots in Michigan (in partnership with Civilla), Colorado, Alaska, Vermont (led by Nava PBC) and Louisiana.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Towards better use of development resources. Find out, follow, press forward.

• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

By using the power of Ethereum, distributed networks and crowdfunding, we are building a system that will reward people who help surface the truth.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Cloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.

• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Budget explorers

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects. Taking open data as an example, through the Open Source Program or Crowd Sourcing, data in different fields are transparent, the problem of information circulation is solved, and the citizen's right to know is expanded.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Nigerian Law blog publishes blogposts to educate users on legal issues. It also engages users through social media by publishing information about laws and citizens’ rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

If you're doing work in technology and development, submit an opportunity or ask how we can help connect you with top candidates.

• The People
• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

SmartParticipation is an open source e-participation platform based on Drupal and designed to offer an effective and adaptable environment for informed online discussion.

• The Tech
• Digital participation platforms

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Peer networks

To strengthen the topic of freedom of information as a whole by transparently depicting the inquiry and response process.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Maldita.es presenta la primera aplicación móvil capaz de avisarte cuando entras en una web con desinformación // a mobile application to fight against misinformation and promote transparency through the confirmation of facts and journalistic techniques

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Basic 'About' page pointing to the network's mailing list and events

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Ezolwaluko is a provincial Web platform that serves as database for initiates. Ezolwaluko is an "initiation watch" that provides citizens with information on whether the traditional surgeons are registered with the Eastern Cape Department of Health or not. On the web platfrom Eastern Cape citizens can report illegal tradtional surgeons, register to become a tradtional surgeon with the Department of Health and report initiates in trouble. Ezolwaluko is provincial available in both English and IsiXhosa

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

We hope the project will arm activists, advocates, journalists, policy makers, and elected officials with relevant, timely information about how government functions—so we can fix it when it doesn’t.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Civic tech catalogs
• Peer networks
• Socialize online

DataViva is opening up data for the entire formal sector of the Brazilian economy through more than 1 billion interactive visualizations.

• The Tech
• Data visualization

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Pro bono and volunteer

a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement

This was an online platform that community groups can use to develop online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Democracy Defenders for informal networking events for democracy defenders and citizens caring about their freedoms and rights.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

DeedsWeb is a website that uses Internet Explorer to provide people with a web-based interface to up-to-date land registration information located on the Deeds Registration System database.