Instituto Cidade Democrática was born in June 2008 and has already worked in 15 cities, involving about 20 thousand people. Today it is consolidated as a Brazilian think and do tank of social participation. Instituto Cidade Democrática collect and analyze data and produce and share knowledge to leverage the power of civil society.

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.

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing. POGO champions reforms to achieve a more effective, ethical, and accountable federal government that safeguards constitutional principles.

The Pop Culture Collaborative is a hub for high impact partnerships and grants designed to help organisations and individuals leverage the reach and power of pop culture for social justice goals. By driving authentic, just narratives about people of color, immigrants, refugees, and Muslims in the media, they seek to help shift how mass audiences understand the past, grasp the present, and engage in building an inclusive future.

LightBox provides “Solar-Home-Systems” solutions that use photovoltaic (Solar-Electric or PV) cells and rechargeable batteries to provide electrical power away from the main grids. LightBox's mission is to procure high quality Pico-Solar-Home Systems with a price-winning product quality of German Origin.

Code for Africa is a people-driven movement that aims to empower active society and strengthen civic watchdogs to help government shape and improve its services to people.

• Civic hacking meetups

Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, they build strategies to advance racial justice in their policies, institutions, and culture. Race Forward imagines a just, multiracial, democratic society, free from oppression and exploitation, in which people of colour thrive with power and purpose.

Open The Government is an inclusive, nonpartisan coalition that works to strengthen our democracy and empower the public by advancing policies that create a more open, accountable, and responsive government.

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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 Co-op Foundation helps disadvantaged communities overcome their challenges by putting co-operative values into practice. It aims to stimulate and strengthen community action that connects and empowers people so they can work together to make things better.

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Platform coops

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Public Sentiment helps decisionmakers solve local problems using genuine community engagement fueled by local community networks and powerful digital tools

• Digital participation platforms

Most Powerful Way to Advocate for Your Community

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

Our online self-service platform helps campaigns maximize the fundraising & visibility benefits of a merch store, without incurring any of the hassles or costs of existing solutions.

• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools
• Merchandise

Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awareness on social media, increase loyalty and drive revenue growth.

• Organize campaigns
• Social media
• Creators and Influencers

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can find the same functionality on the website. Action for Transparency empowers citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

Trusted by campaigns of every size, NGP VAN's award-winning websites and industry-leading organizing, fundraising, compliance, and digital tools have elected thousands of Democrats to local, state, and federal office. Nearly every Democrat running for office is powered by NGP VAN. 

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

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
• Socialize online

Smart donation form that embeds directly to your website or as a pop-up.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

Artificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Building Free Technology Tools for We, The People

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

O Nossas impulsiona o ativismo solidário e democrático no Brasil

• Participatory democracy
• Organize campaigns
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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

You have the right to request information from any publicly-funded body, and get answers. FrågaStaten helps you make a Freedom of Information request. It also publishes all requests online.

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

Empowers users to discover issues and trends within their district’s boundaries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

The Democratic Principles for an Open Internet have been primarily designed for citizens and civil society organizations in fragile and emerging democracies, who are new to the digital rights space, are beginning to engage more regularly online, and who may be more likely to encounter deliberate internet disruptions as a result of government interference.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Our mission is to empower all eligible US citizens to become voters. That starts with voter registration.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

ipaidabribe.com is Janaagraha's unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens.

• corruption

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

GSBI Boost packs core business lessons into a powerful 3-day workshop. We help local, early-stage social entrepreneurs learn business fundamentals, improve their strategic thinking, and articulate a business plan

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Carrotmob is a new way to influence businesses. We spend money as a group, and in return businesses take socially-responsible actions we care about.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

PublicInput.com connects organizations with the communities they serve.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• cities
• research

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

our mission We dream of an equitable world where the poor and marginalised can lead lives that are empowered and just. We believe that this scale of change can be achieved through social enterprises, that is, businesses that place impact at the centre of their mission. We inspire, mentor, fund and support early stage, innovation‐based for‐profit enterprises that have an impact on the lives of the poor in India. The power of innovation, combined with entrepreneurship, to impact the lives of people who are poor Paul Basil, founder our values bold We embrace uncertainty, ambition and believe in possibilities Entrepreneurial We take initiative, and capitalise on opportunities Impeccable integrity We maintain confidentiality while being transparent in our dealings Empathetic We are customer centric, humble and are committed to helping entrepreneurs our story Villgro was founded in 2001 by PAUL BASIL with the mission of incubating

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Championing London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields