Psiphon is a free and open-source internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, providing open access to the internet for millions of citizens around the world.

• apps
• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Creating a system that makes it easy to store, manage, and search for public records.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Freedom of Information

Every year, Access Now celebrates the heroes of human rights in the digital age, and we’re looking for nominations!

• human rights

Astraea’s CommsLabs is a radical global movement-building initiative that equips LGBTQI activists with the tools, skills and knowledge they need to securely organize and advocate in online spaces.

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Open government data portal

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Sign up to have your daily NYC protest update texted and emailed to you.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• SMS tools

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

HSDS is designed to support the publication of open, interoperable community resource directory data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

IdeaScale is the leading innovation management software platform for the enterprise, government, and education. Gather ideas and implement them.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Arizona Eviction Help makes it easier for tenants to learn about eviction hearings, identify potential defenses to use and create court documents to use.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Can you design, write, or code? Are you an activist with an idea? You can help Los Angeles live up to its potential at Hack for LA. Everyone is welcome!

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

A free campaign for youth funded by Colin @kaepernick7 to raise awareness on self-empowerment 💪🏿 and interacting with law enforcement 🚔

• racial equity
• trainings
• youth

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy
• Justice tech

Lexassisto is an interactive online resource that attempts to make the law and information about legal processesmore accesible to people.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

A dedicated section on Facebook that connects people to news and information about their community, called Today In.

• civic features
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Procurement oversight

This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Open Toledo focuses on civic technology and government technology, technologies that enhance civic engagement and help government run efficiently.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital literacy

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Democracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

• air quality
• radiation

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Das Land Vorarlberg stellt auf data.gv.at allen Interessierten Regierungs- und Verwaltungsdaten zur Verfügung.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Coworker.org is a platform for worker voice. Find out why employees of some of the world's largest companies are using Coworker.org to win change.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

great games for a great cause

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Foundational layers

Coronavirus Covid-19 es la app oficial del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación y tiene como objetivo que los argentinos y las argentinas puedan realizarse una rápida autoevaluación para saber si sus síntomas son compatibles con el COVID-19.

• apps
• COVID-19

• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

However you do good in the world, there's something for you at TechSoup.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

OpenMaine (formerly Code for Maine) is a local Brigade in the Code for America network.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Data analytics from collection to analysis.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization

• workshops

• Nonprofit tech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Workshops

Get answers from the government and public sector

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

118 projects to help refugees, curated by betterplace lab

• refugees

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

A community of female drone pilots, enthusiasts, content creators and innovators. Fly, learn and contribute with us!

• Emerging Tech report orgs
• Drones