Founded in 1895, it is one of the oldest non-governmental organisations and one of the largest ones measured by the number of people represented: 1 billion cooperative members on the planet.

• coop

• Fieldwide resources

Mapping the networks of the 1,580 individuals who were arrested, charged, or convicted for participating on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Project 2025

• Data visualization
• Justice tech
• Crowdsourcing

OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world.

• Civic data
• Circumvention tech
• Open internet

An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charges related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Justice tech

The Impact Map provides timely data—as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect. This tool is currently in beta and will continue evolving, so you may find areas that need updating.

• Project 2025

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Evaluate impact

So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. Discover their solutions.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities.

• Civic data
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

The AI Security Institute is the largest team in a government dedicated to understanding AI capabilities and risks in the world.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Trust & Safety

• Polarization

From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relationships.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Nonprofit tech
• CRM

ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• General purpose open source tools

Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform

• Google
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a non-profit wireless community that aims to develop, use and promote a wireless broadband network in the wider Athens area.

• city

• Connectivity

Charity capacity-building trainings

• trainings

• Nonprofit tech

Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Specific digital participation instances

tools for organisational collaboration & fundraising

• Newspeak

• Campaign tools
• Fundraising tools

With this guide, you'll have access to key information on over 2,000 grant-makers, each with the potential to give at least £50,000 per year. (£135.00)

• books

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic tech catalogs

We are a charity that helps organisations publish and use open grants data so that people can understand the funding context, make informed decisions, and work together to support communities and good causes as effectively as possible.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

• free speech
• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Open knowledge

UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Research tools

The 360Giving Data Standard is a uniform and consistent way to describe grantmaking data.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Data schemas and standards

UK-focused charity capacity-building organization

• Nonprofit tech
• Predecessors

8,553 sources of [UK] funding. Search thousands of funders awarding grants to a wide range of causes and beneficiaries

• Get funding
• Civic tech catalogs
• Fundraising tools

A tool to help Americans see the effect of tariffs on groceries

• Project 2025
• tariffs

• Specific campaigns

TLC is the first trans-led specialist gender identity legal practice in Britain, providing free and accessible legal help to transgender and non-binary people in need.

• trans rights
• LGBTQI

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

A floating glowing cloud of LED-embedded balloons that listens out for electromagnetic waves in the sky.

• place-based

• Hardware
• Artistic interventions

All positions below are part-time and unpaid unless noted otherwise.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers

• Meet the others
• Academia
• Online forums

They were locally controlled sites on the Internet that typically free services including training and hardware donations, as well as e-mail (years before Google and others got involved) web space, and community forums

• Predecessors
• Neighborhood forums
• Community-building resources

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

• Engagement tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

The First Branch LLM (Large Language Model) concept map below imagines the critical infrastructure needed at the enterprise level to create an accessible, accountable, and permanent information system for both the public and lawmakers.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

OONI Probe is a free and open source tool to help measure internet censorship.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Circumvention tech

A collaborative analysis platform for effective aid response

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Open data publishing platforms

The GBV AoR brings together non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring life-saving, predictable, accountable and effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response in emergencies, both natural disaster and conflict-related humanitarian contexts.

• Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
• Gender Equality

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Parody protest campaign

• Reduced inequalities
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

• surveillance
• place-based
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Hardware

The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

How do we ensure that community data from Papua New Guinea’s protected areas is reported and heard?

• biodiversity
• animals
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Evaluate impact
• Environmental data

Analyses on the conflict in Sudan

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

by Mehran Khalili

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

Nieman Journalism Lab covered ProPublica's brilliant approach to getting government sources: parking one of those billboard trucks with an ad for their secure Signal number outside of government offices in DC as terminated employees left the building.

• place-based
• Project 2025

• Media
• Journalism
• Whistleblowing

IFRC GO aims to make all disaster information universally accessible and useful to IFRC responders for better decision making.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Dashboards

A coalition of community and news organizations providing in-depth journalism and catalyzing civic action

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Newsroom partnership networks

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Innovation teams and labs

Sahana makes high quality information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building accessible to all.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

We are a network of ten established organizations working in the global majority, that collaborate to strengthen the digital resilience of the social justice ecosystem.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Alignment