The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Justice tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Research and Education for Communities in Humanitarian Crisis

Community Initiatives is a dedicated fiscal sponsor whose sole purpose is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for nonprofit leaders.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

AI literacy effort for government and other sectors in Cameroon

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

Initiative by 18F to demonstrate the potential for API-enabled benefits eligibility logic services.

• APIs

• Access social benefits
• Civic data APIs

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• Participatory democracy

Development Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fundraising tools
• Data schemas and standards

A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.

• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). We work to build a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies.

The African Media Initiative strengthens Africa’s media sector through advocacy, investments, technology, and training.

A campaign to convince US Congress to adequately fund election administration

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps

• opioids

• Civic maps

• Civic tech catalogs

The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Citizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

StepUp is a free habit building, science-based workout program developed by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. The program is being launched in partnership with 24 Hour Fitness.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• Watchdogging and transparency

At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan seek to advance human potential and promote equal opportunity.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• High-tech COVID Interventions

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

Statewide, cross-agency, including birth certificates

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

It identifies, connects, advises, and invests in diverse social entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to persistent problems in their communities

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

Today we're excited to announce we’ve joined forces with ProPublica to incorporate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.

• civic features

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

The Police Data Initiative promotes the use of open data to encourage joint problem solving, innovation, enhanced understanding, and accountability between communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them.

• policing
• racial equity
• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.

• The Tech
• Media

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

• local

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Working groups

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State, IE University is leading Tech4Democracy, a powerful initiative to identify entrepreneurs dedicated to developing technology that will promote and protect democracy worldwide.

• Build something
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs