Compute the impact of public policy

• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Add a text hotline to your services for fractions of a cent per text! Carrier Pigeon lets your team receive & reply to clients’ texts in Slack. Carrier Pigeon is currently used by abortion access organizations to provide information, find clinics, and answer clients' questions - securely & confidentially.

• Slack

• SMS tools
• Hotlines

Streamline your volunteer application process. In closed beta as of March 2023.

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Manage volunteers

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

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

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Filter bubble poppers

Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Counseling for Ukrainians living with HIV

• refugees
• Good health and well-being
• Ukraine

• Mutual aid

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

• extensions

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

FakerFact was an Artificial Intelligence tool built to help us understand more about what we read.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

RoveR is an app to help you spot real over rubbish news!

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

• extensions
• Facebook
• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a volunteer-run educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.

• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

​How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?​

• taxes
• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Budget explorers

Your destination for high-impact jobs at nonprofits, social enterprises, CSR, B Corps, government, and other mission-focused organizations and positions.

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics

• resources

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can. The approach can be used for any type of election: school board, local government, state government, national or otherwise. In order for newsrooms to adopt a new kind of thinking, process and behavior, it takes more than one passionate person to make lasting change happen. This readiness assessment is designed to give you a sense of how easy or difficult it might be to get a citizens agenda model deployed in your newsroom, so you can go in with eyes wide open around any challenges.

• guides

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

The full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Taught by David Eaves

• Govtech
• Courses
• Digital transformation

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

• extensions
• Facebook
• YouTube

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Advertising

Trigger apps to protect your privacy when in anxious or panic situations

• apps

• Emergency services

Themis makes it easy to surface, capture, 
and share your organization’s knowledge. Our tools activate and enable every employee.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community).

• local
• neighborhoods

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Play or Get Played – the app antidote to deceptive political ads, from HonestAds.org.

• apps

• Advertising

This program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.

• Report cards and audits

What do your tweets make other people think about your political views? If you are an American Twitter user, log-in to our app below to see how how our model scores your tweets on a continuum from "very liberal" to "very conservative."

• X (Twitter)

• Filter bubble poppers

Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy

Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.

• Civic data
• Justice tech
• Open data publishing portals

Participate in the international celebration of GIS technology.

• Mapping
• Holidays

IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.

• banking
• Reduced inequalities

• Specific campaigns

Human-centered design frameworks start by identifying who a product is for and then placing them at the center of the product strategy. The Co/Act toolkit adapts and expands this approach to design digital products, services, or campaigns through modular do-it-yourself style activities that are aggressively low cost, high impact, interdisciplinary, and focused on building the capacity of participants. Co/Act will help you design more powerful products, services, and campaigns by centering them on your community, stakeholders, and colleagues - ensuring that the end result is more inclusive and therefore democratic.

• Design
• Toolkits

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

Reset how you publish with Hypergraph (Beta) Document your research journey step by step, before hindsight happens. Easier for you, better for science. Hypergraph (Beta) is free-to-play, free-to-access, and will have some rough edges. By using it, you can help improve it.

• Citizen science

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Meeting tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

your platform for political dialogue

• Filter bubble poppers

Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.

• Media
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.

• Civic literacy