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FutureAir
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAFutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality
My Smart City
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The prices of basic necessities (e.g., maize flour) are very important
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
MobiSAM
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.
New York City Civic Engagement Commission
1 Centre Street, New York, NY, USAThe Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.
Install the Progressive Shopper Chrome extension and quickly understand if you are supporting a brand that is aligned with your values.
Penda
AustraliaPenda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.
VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.
Passport
128 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, USAPassport transforms the way cities manage their operations by reducing operational complexity and delivering intelligent data.
Dominion
AfricaDominion makes data available to help add context and authority to public discourse and policy-making on vital issues of land ownership.
Managing uncertainty in government modelling
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets
Planning 4 Informality
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.
Facebook, OECD and World Bank Measuring Business Sentiment
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceFacebook, World Bank and the OECD launched a measure of business sentiment based on a “Future of Business Survey” questioning companies that use their Facebook pages to connect with customers.
Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Ghanoonban
TehranUsing modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality
The only solution designed to activate employees for good and maximize impact through workplace giving and volunteering.
TiPi
Spain (España)Es un proyecto que nace desde la sociedad civil para fortalecer sus capacidades de incidencia en los procesos de toma de decisión política y en la generación de un debate público informado sobre la pobreza y la justicia social en España.
The Good News Podcast is your daily reminder that not all news is bad, produced by Cards Against Humanity.
Blue Button
United States of America (the)An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.
Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...
HeatSeek
New York CityHeat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.
Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.
coUrbanize
33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USAcoUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.
DGI curates focused, in-depth programs where technical communities gather to share their knowledge and success. DGI delivers substantial, useful information
A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
Demander Justice
FranceDemander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.
New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.
The must-attend gigabit technology conference for city and community leaders.
Ballot Scout
Brooklyn, NYBallot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.
PersonalData.IO
Impact Hub Geneva, Rue Fendt, Geneva, SwitzerlandA collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options
TenderBase
EuropeThis tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.
Tracka
55 Moleye Street, Lagos, NigeriaLaunched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.
This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.
Seattle Tech 4 Housing
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaWe are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.
North America Google Policy Fellowship
Washington, DCOur fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.
Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth
covid19italia.help
RomeA crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy
Civocracy
BerlinCivocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.
Public Interest Tech at the Royal Society of Arts Conference
Moscone Center, Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, USAAcross six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.
The ODI's Open Standards for Data Guidebook
Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JEOpen standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.
Hope
New York CityHope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.
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