The original direct democracy decision-making site for the Italian Five Star Movement

• partisan

• Voting and elections
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Share the Facts offers a new way for professional fact checkers—like Politifact, The Washington Post, and FactCheck.org—to spread their work across the Internet.

• widgets

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Bite The Ballot is an international social enterprise that specialises in civic and community engagement. Our charity has grown from an idea in a classroom to coordinating world-record breaking campaigns, changing laws and rebranding politics among young and socially-excluded communities.

• The Tech
• Voting and elections
• Engagement tech

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity

CityGML is an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Il sistema digitale gratuito per la gestione delle segnalazioni di corruzione nella Pubblica Amministrazione

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Cobudget makes it easy for organizations and groups to allocate funds collaboratively and transparently.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Help out

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

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

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

• The People
• Meet the others
• COVID

International open government data specifications.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Data Governance is an important component of enabling our mission because we believe that while the world needs better quality and more granular data to achieve its development goals, people’s rights must also be protected zealously. In partnership with Amnesty International, the Open Institute aims to bring together expertise in data for human rights and data for development towards strengthening data governance in Kenya and Africa as a whole. Building on the momentum created by an event dubbed #RestoreDataRights, which ended with calls from African civil society organisations and academic representatives for policy tools and frameworks that could help to ensure that sensitive personal data used as part of the pandemic response is used responsibly, the project will work to ensure responsible data use and protect people’s data rights.

• Civic data
• Data governance

Open Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The lab focuses on supporting the implementation and inclusion of established technologies into existing applications, organizations, and communities that are advancing Internet freedom, supporting the initial/bootstrap operating and infrastructure costs associated with getting deployments online, and, finally, conducting one-off assessments of existing apps or websites for recommended privacy, security, or anti-censorship improvements. All of this work will be conducted either by service partners or applicants themselves—with triage and oversight by an OTF.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech