The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

Brasil: Investigação transnacional revela empresas de marketing político ligadas à extrema direita

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim
• Brazil (federal government)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."

• Social media
• Civic teams at tech companies

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

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• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

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• extensions
• free speech

• Circumvention tech

A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to public benefits and services.

• Access social benefits

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

One of multiple studies in the US using artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice police officers use, to determine whether it leads to unnecessarily escalations with the public.

• police violence
• policing
• labor

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Moja WiFi is a turnkey Solution for monetizing public WiFi networks

• Connectivity
• Foundational layers

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Location-based personal safety app that integrates with Tinder, emergency services

• crime
• domestic violence
• apps

• Location
• Emergency services

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

"[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

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

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

Accelerating digital equality and data justice in Africa.

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

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

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

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

• books

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Books

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

• Hardware
• Translation and linguistic representation

We Accelerate Innovations That Address Violence Against Women

• Gender Equality
• domestic violence

• Build something
• Accelerators

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

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

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

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

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 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

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
• free speech

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Circumvention tech

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.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative 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
• Fellowships
• Accelerators

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.

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Bureaucracy 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

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

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

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

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

“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

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
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emerging tech

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