For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

A UK-wide community of democracy organisations and initiatives, working to build stronger relationships, connections and resources amongst those working to build a stronger, more resilient democracy in the United Kingdom.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Open spreadsheet to calculate the carbon benefits of protected bikelanes

• cycling
• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

The three sections of our work, Election Observation, Capacity Building and Campaign & Advocacy are different parts of ANFREL’s holistic approach to the promotion of democratic institutions. These divisions, while different, support one another.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.

• human rights
• criminal justice

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

The Journalism Development Network, inc. (JDN) is a Maryland-based 501©3 non-profit journalism organization dedicated to improving investigative reporting and newsroom management around the world.

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

network of digital rights defenders in Southeast Asia which was established on 27 June 2013 in Bali, Indonesia

ENEMO is an international organization, a network composed of 22 national election monitoring CSOs from 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three European Union countries.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Election oversight

We are building an emerging field of internet research with a feminist approach, to inform and influence activism and policymaking.

• Gender Equality

MANS is a non-governmental organization that fights against corruption and organized crime affecting Montenegro.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• cities

• Govtech
• Working groups
• Data governance

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda. CTENs mission is to give community knowledge in digital technology for purposes of understanding and eventually building digital skills for employability, resulting in livelihoods resilience.

• refugees

• Co-design
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

With a Mighty Network, you can bring your courses, memberships, and offers together in a powerful community under your own brand on iOS, Android, and the web.

• commercial

• Online forums
• Social networks

Catalist is a social impact network and digital library where you can discover projects, events, and opportunities to change the world.

• Fieldwide resources
• Expert networks

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

Our experienced and diverse team of advisors supports municipalities and organizations of all sizes across Canada on a range of data and tech issues. We work alongside our partners’ teams to assess their needs, define problems, mobilize research and knowledge, design solutions and support their implementation. Contact Us

• trainings
• cities

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Research tools

The Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Fight disinformation

GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.

• free speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Trade groups

We empower women around the world to participate in the political process and equip them with the skills to take on greater leadership roles.

This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

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

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

• Civic tech catalogs

Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020

• Media and social media analysis

The Myanmar Tech Accountability Network (MTAN) is a network of Myanmar civil society organizations coordinating efforts to mitigate the risk of social media induced violence and political instability in Myanmar.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We connect and support national digital campaigning organizations around the world which provide opportunities for activists to influence national and international politics.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

The NoC a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.

• Research and policy centers
• Partner networks and coalitions

WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing
• Consumer watchdogging

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

A community of organisers across the UK and Ireland supporting each other to fuel the tech for good movement

• Partner networks and coalitions

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. Headquartered in Barcelona, the organisation’s stated mission is: "To be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community."

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

Progressive gifts made by designers who give a shit

• Civic tech gifts
• Merchandise

PIT-UN (US) university membership list

• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs
• Academia

Magamba is Zimbabwe's leading creative organisation working on the cutting-edge of culture, new media, activism, and innovation.

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Peer networks