The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions

The world's first text-to-sign interpreter for emergency alerts

• 2024 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.

• free speech
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Journalism
• Civic maps
• Story-based campaigns

An award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels

• Climate action
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Digital transformation

Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest.

• Zero hunger
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

The platform for buying and selling proxy voting rights

• commercial

• Consumer watchdogging

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity

• Crowdsourcing

A Tableau data visualization and analysis of public transit in NYC

• mass transit

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Powered by artificial intelligence, Eye Tracking gives users a built-in option for navigating iPad and iPhone with just their eyes.

• Apple

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

Project Gameface helps gamers control their mouse cursor using their head movement and facial gestures.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

Look to Speak is an Android app from Google which enables you to use your eyes to select a menu of phrases and pictures and have them spoken aloud.

• apps
• Android

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Community-building resources
• The craft of organizing

Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.

• apps
• Android
• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Machine vision

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Crowdsourcing

A toolkit for impact practitioners to build products, services & systems that center women.

• toolkits
• women

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design
• Visual Design

Scale Data Engine leverages your enterprise data, and with Scale GenAI Platform, safely unlocks the value of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech vendors

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Social networks
• Find your representatives

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. 

• Reduced inequalities
• electricity
• housing

The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.

Ajudamos organizações sem fins lucrativos, não governamentais e governamentais a aproveitar o poder dos seus dados, para melhorar o seu impacto na comunidade.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

A fun illustrated map charting AI Safety efforts across blogs, podcasts, training, support, governance, research, and so on.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Created by NetFreedom Pioneers, the NKITI is designed to lower the entry barriers for technical individuals and organizations seeking to develop new information access solutions for the DPRK, and to serve as a launchpad for a new wave of technology-driven and DPRK-focused organizations.

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Incubators

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Hardware

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

A world in which political leaders are one of the most respected roles in society.

• Help more people run for office

The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.

• Civic literacy
• Accelerators

A Próxima Geração, uma associação sem fins lucrativos, tem como objetivo revitalizar a democracia portuguesa. A Próxima Geração representa a primeira Academia apartidária com contexto global em Portugal.

• Civic literacy
• Online courses

RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.

• Democratic Innovations
• Quadratic voting

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

• city
• public space
• mental health

• Design

An easy tool to host a quadratic vote.

• Democratic Innovations
• E-voting and I-voting
• Quadratic voting

The Global Impact Award recognizes media or organizations that have profoundly changed the world for the better.

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Narrative tech

Online education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses
• Diplomacy

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.

• reports

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Open civic data

DeHavilland’s political intelligence combines the most powerful technology and AI tools with in-house knowledge, expertise and analysis.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Predecessors

People and organizations working on, contributing to, and advocating for public AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

The only solution that combines an AI grant-writer, a case management system, a CRM, a booking platform and impact reporting — so you can get more funding, keep costs low, and keep all your information in one place.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Digital Public Infrastructure