A toolkit of social movement resources by and for global changemakers

• guides
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Website that shows country-by-country coronavirus social distancing responses

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.

• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

An online conference platform

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Meeting tech

The Open County Initiative is a project within the Devolution Programme implemented by Open Institute together with the Council of Governors

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Tools

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects

Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.

• Hubs
• Working groups

Better walking, biking, and transit

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Entrepreneurs, sign up for our Abaca platform to get notified when a relevant accelerator opens up

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.

• Roundtables

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

An online forum for community discussion

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Vilsquare strives to achieve digital transformation in different communities across Nigeria and all Africa, through use of open science technologies and methodologies

• Digital transformation
• Open science

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our Launchpad is a month-long, hackathon-inspired event that facilitates citizen volunteers working together on civic-focused, open source projects.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Working to restore a balanced relationship between people and planet

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• No poverty

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

Build Peace is a conference that brings together practitioners, activists, artists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas.

• peace

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

SmartProcure is a procurement database company for businesses and government agencies.

• Govtech
• Procurement

Explore what the world is searching

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

• state

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain