The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Peer networks
• Digital transformation
• Data governance

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Partner networks
• Data governance

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Campaign organizations

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Digital transformation
• Economic development

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

Where Chicago's historically underrepresented tech founders find the funding, knowledge, and networks to help your business thrive.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Mapping tools

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

• mobility
• cities

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The first virtual DEI assessment for the workplace with an emphasis on mutual accountability.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

The National Civic League's Quarterly Journal, "One of the Nation’s Oldest and Most Respected Journals of Civic Affairs"

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Democracy Only Works When We Do

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

An 2024 election info hub and civic caravan for Romanian citizens

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic apps outfits
• Civic and social impact companies

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundational layers

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

Podlove is a group of Wordpress plugins and allows you to self-host your podcast.

• Wordpress

• Decentralization
• General purpose open source tools

Your toolbox for self-hosted chat services

• Bots

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are on a mission to help the social sector organizations to scale their impact, increase their outreach and work smarter using artificial intelligence and chatbots, and smart automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Nonprofit tech

We have collected over 40 chatbot projects by nonprofits and social businesses around the world that help build a more just, equal and sustainable future.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Bots

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Academia

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

• Climate action

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Meet the others

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

HURREVAC is the decision support tool of the [US] National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

• hurricanes

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

• hurricanes

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• cities
• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

"Suggestions bag" for the Portuguese Assembly. It's actively used but it's not clear where citizen suggestions go once posted.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The official citizen participation hub of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

As part of the 2024 Web Science Conference Brave Conversations again brings together technology, society and politics to explore humanity in the 21st Century

Developed for Occupy Wall Street in 2011, the first mobile panic button app.

• apps
• Occupy

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

We fund startups across nearly all technology areas and markets like artificial intelligence, energy, medical devices, robotics, semiconductors, and many more.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

As we move solidly into 2024, we have been considering how civic infrastructures, currently and in the future, will affect our experiences with technology, our experiences with services we take for granted, and how we relate to one another.

• Learn about civic tech
• Mainstream media coverage