Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma

• books

• Books
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Impact Job features handpicked social impact jobs across the fields of nonprofits, climate change, and mission-driven businesses.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.

• Hardware
• Translation and linguistic representation

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Center for News, Technology & Innovation will provide issue primers with research and legislative activity from around the world and host deliberative discussions among thought leaders in journalism, technology, and policy.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research and policy centers

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

Accelerating digital equality and data justice in Africa.

• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Civil society research outfits

We Accelerate Innovations That Address Violence Against Women

• Gender Equality
• domestic violence

• Build something
• Accelerators

JUST AI is an independent network of researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the social and ethical value of data and AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

• Identity

The Lab equips the US climate movement with the evidence-based insights, skills, and connections needed to build durable power and win equitable solutions.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

"[V]ictims of violence or bullying can quietly voice activate to record an incident as it is happening and, if necessary, command the app to call the cops." - GovTech Magazine

• domestic violence
• apps

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emergency services

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

The Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A MariaLab é uma associação sem fins lucrativos, sem vínculo político-partidário e com empresas do setor privado, que atua na intersecção entre política, gênero e suas tecnologias.

• Gender Equality
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Escola de Ativismo é um coletivo independente constituído em 2011 com a missão de fortalecer grupos ativistas por meio de processos de aprendizagem em estratégias e técnicas de ações não-violentas e criativas, campanhas, comunicação, mobilização e segurança e proteção integral, voltadas para a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A publicação visa colaborar na construção de estratégias de proteção, fomentando oficinas coletivas com defensoras e defensores de direitos humanos (DDHs), movimentos sociais e organizações da sociedade civil.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

Ceno (short for censorship.no!) is the world’s first mobile browser that side-steps current Internet censorship methods. Its peer-to-peer backbone allows people to access and share web information in and across regions where connectivity has been interrupted or compromised.

• apps

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Circumvention tech

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Civic hackathons

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Meeting tech

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

• local

• Govtech
• Holidays

We build and maintain data systems designed for the specific data needs of progressive organizations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

The Australian Ad Observatory project is enabling independent research into the role that algorithmically targeted advertising plays in society.

• extensions

• Advertising
• Data donations

Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

“Transparency Lab” (tlab) is a project that aims to map existing policy and legislation in relation to transparency, corruption and accountability in Iran; to assess their strengths and weaknesses and to introduce international standards, values and policy recommendations to the discussion about transparency, corruption and accountability in the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Informing humanitarians worldwide

• United Nations

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• News and blogs

Humanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity

A mobile app to help humanitarians find their ideal role. Search for jobs and filter via organisation, location, experience and career category. Save jobs to your library, share with others and apply directly through the app.

• apps

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

• Evaluate impact
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Over 3,500 jobs, internships, consultancies, and volunteer opportunities in disaster response and humanitarian relief

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Find a job or hire someone
• Help out

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Access social benefits
• Bots
• Interactive Voice Response

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits

Foxglove is a non-profit that fights to make tech fair for everyone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

The Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change the world around us and make sure that surveillance is curtailed.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Artistic interventions

All about information controls in Azerbaijan

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design