The Foundry is a collaborative organization for Internet law and policy professionals who are passionate about disruptive innovation. The Foundry offers members a platform for professional development, constructive debate, and network-building within a cohort of skilled attorneys and policy analysts eager to help shape the development of Internet law and policy.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Professional associations

Unlike other job boards, Foundry Jobs is focused solely on Internet law and policy jobs.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Tech or Digital Policy

IJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and emerging journalists worldwide.

• guides
• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• News and blogs

IMS is the largest media development organisation in the Nordic region. We work in more than 30 countries across four continents promoting press freedom, good journalism and safety for journalists.

• free speech

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Journalism

Database of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

A 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights

International Aid Transparency Initiative IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The purpose of the Global Democracy Initiative is to organize, train, and deploy Former Parliamentarians of Canada, Former Members of the European Parliament, and Former Members of the U.S. Congress as participants in democracy building activities such as election observation, democratic institution building, and supporting elected representatives in emerging democracies as they strive for free and transparent forms of good governance.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• Election oversight

International Budget Partnership works globally to make budgets work for all people.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• Funders & donors

Journalists in ICFJ's unparalleled network produce news reports that lead to better governments, economies and societies.

• free speech

• Media
• Peer networks

The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space. It was formally signed during the 74th UN General Assembly in September 2019.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• Holidays

• Media
• Graveyard

• Archives

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

Focuses on the emergence of new kinds of independent, alternative journalism in Latin America.

• Conferences
• Journalism

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
• Data schemas and standards
• Fundraising tools

The IWMF works to unleash the power of female journalists to transform the global news media. Their fellows and grantees — both freelance and staff journalists — become experts in reporting in underserved regions, generate must-read stories, align with top outlets, and bring critical issues affecting women and others to light. The IWMF is the only organization that provides safety training, byline opportunities, and emergency support tailored to female journalists and photographers around the world.

InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy. Its goal is to conduct interdisciplinary impactful research and promote dialogue among academics, professionals and policymakers. They follow an entrepreneurial nonprofit model, which embraces a pursuit of producing scholarly research in the manner and spirit of an academic think tank. As a nexus of expertise in technology, public policy and social sciences, the research agenda covers a wide range of topics, including privacy, freedom of speech, gender and technology.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Mapping

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

The International Innovation Corp at The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy creates scalable solutions to critical development problems. We send top talent to work with government and development organizations on one to three year projects to implement innovative solutions to important development problems.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Our objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Archives

• Civic data
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

• human rights

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

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

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation

The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Internews, an international nonprofit organization, empowers people worldwide with the trustworthy, high-quality news and information they need to make informed decisions, participate in their communities, and hold power to account.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The Internews Center for Innovation & Learning examines digital technologies and innovative approaches to meet information needs

• The People
• Media
• Build something

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

INTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A premier international conference for researchers on machine learning

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Conferences

Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Research, ideas, and leadership for a more peaceful world.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust.

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