Narwhal is a discussion community for curious people of any viewpoint

• Online forums
• Civic forums
• Social networks

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

Helping You Move Beyond Debt

• Decent work and economic growth

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports

• Social media

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The CR Digital Lab offers paid, non-resident fellowships to study the effects of connected products and services.  Fellows will undertake research to increase transparency and advance consumers’ interests in the marketplace—devising new testing frameworks, tools, and procedures to evaluate values such as privacy, security, and fairness. Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse community of technologists, leverage CR’s physical labs and testing infrastructure, and communicate findings to manufacturers, policymakers, and the public. Applications for our 2020 non-resident fellowships are now closed. We appreciate your interest and hope that you will consider applying next year when we reopen applications for the 2021 season.

• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

A clever campaign riffing on Spotify's Unwrapped year-in-review product, by Fight for the Future and Union of Musicians and Allied Workers. https://github.com/fightforthefuture/spotifyunwrapped.org

• Spotify
• labor

Black Stripe Foundation is a media production company that produces educational television programmes and other media, one of which is the 'Big Debate', a renowned town-hall debate style TV show in South Africa.

Electric South collaborates with artists across Africa in emerging storytelling, through labs, production and distribution.

Swish Labs delivers specialized engineering, product, and design services for entities that shape the world.

The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

Una herramienta para conocer qué saben las empresas sobre vos

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

When fintechs and nonprofits work together, they can offer a powerful combination of well-designed tech solutions and supportive relationships with trusted partners to improve financial health.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Fintech for good

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools

On the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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 are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy

Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Venezuelan Fake News Observatory aims to educate and empower citizens in the face of a reality that is submerged daily in the misinformation produced, among other reasons, by the almost immediate viralization of falsified information that circulates, mainly, on social networks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Consumer watchdogging

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content. Our limited attention has become the most valuable resource on the internet and it is captured and manipulated via the rampant and unregulated collection of our personal data. This is surveillance capitalism at work - a relentless assault on our private data that provide intimate insights which are sold to the highest bidder, with next-to-no awareness or control. We are told that having our data taken is the price we pay for the “free” use of digital services. But this system places the priorities of corporates ahead of the social good while it manipulates our social perspective, drives division and isolates us from each other. There are few practical ways to opt out of the attention economy that depends on pervasive surveillance. And even if you manage to on an individual level, the real world impact of this data-driven social manipulation is impossible to avoid. Big Tech controls a global audience of billions with a market power that is unprecedented in the history of media. Yet they have almost no oversight and reject liability for the harms their products cause.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses