The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Artificial Intelligence

Building World-Positive Companies

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Conferences

The Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) is a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
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• Civic imagination

Impact Engine is an investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Legal tech
• Bots

Design Gigs for Good is a free community-driven resource to help more people use the tools of design to create positive social change.

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

Tech volunteers and activists.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Help out

This ICT4D Guide is a free and open guide to help anyone who wants to make a positive social impact with technology's help.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Conversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.

• harassment

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa

• WhatsApp

• Communicating with the government
• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Championing the ethical use of technology

• podcasts

• The People
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• Meet the others

Ethics In Technology works towards increased awareness around the ethical use of technology and seeks to make a positive impact through engaging the public at all levels of our society in conversation about these issues.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Drones

High-impact jobs solving the climate crisis

• Climate action

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

Civic tech projects can aim at changing citizen’s behaviours. Zlato from South Africa is a digital platform which rewards positive behaviour inside communities thanks to a digital currency which can be used to purchase local products, from clothes to haircuts.

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

Spendrise is a platform for creating positive change everywhere you spend money. Speak up as a paying customer and help businesses you love become even better.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

#getcivic

• Artistic interventions
• Organize events

See contact information and details about Social Coin.

• The Tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Graveyard

An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.

• The People
• Emerging Tech Organizations
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New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Over 1 million workers are using Organise to win better pay and conditions at work. Complete your confidential profile page to get started!

• employee organizing
• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Online forums

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

• research

• The Tech
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• Civic tech catalogs

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
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(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

IDEO is a global design company. We create positive impact through design.

• Civic and social impact companies

Using the power of satirical AI -generated media to create awareness about the climate emergency.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech