The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a non-profit wireless community that aims to develop, use and promote a wireless broadband network in the wider Athens area.

• city

• Connectivity

UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Research tools

tools for organisational collaboration & fundraising

• Newspeak House

• Campaign tools
• Fundraising tools

Charity capacity-building trainings

• trainings

• Nonprofit tech

Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

• free speech
• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Open knowledge

The 360Giving Data Standard is a uniform and consistent way to describe grantmaking data.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Data schemas and standards

A tool to help Americans see the effect of tariffs on groceries

• Project 2025
• tariffs

• Specific campaigns

A floating glowing cloud of LED-embedded balloons that listens out for electromagnetic waves in the sky.

• place-based

• Hardware
• Artistic interventions

All positions below are part-time and unpaid unless noted otherwise.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

TLC is the first trans-led specialist gender identity legal practice in Britain, providing free and accessible legal help to transgender and non-binary people in need.

• trans rights
• LGBTQI

• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

They were locally controlled sites on the Internet that typically free services including training and hardware donations, as well as e-mail (years before Google and others got involved) web space, and community forums

• Predecessors
• Neighborhood forums
• Community-building resources

Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers

• Meet the others
• Academia
• Open knowledge

Join the growing No Tech for Apartheid movement and demand that Microsoft live up to its own purported ethical values—by ending its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.

• Microsoft
• Microsoft Azure AI
• Israel Palestine

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

OONI Probe is a free and open source tool to help measure internet censorship.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Circumvention tech

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

• Engagement tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

The First Branch LLM (Large Language Model) concept map below imagines the critical infrastructure needed at the enterprise level to create an accessible, accountable, and permanent information system for both the public and lawmakers.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

• surveillance
• place-based
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Hardware

The GBV AoR brings together non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring life-saving, predictable, accountable and effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response in emergencies, both natural disaster and conflict-related humanitarian contexts.

• Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
• Gender Equality

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

IFRC GO aims to make all disaster information universally accessible and useful to IFRC responders for better decision making.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Dashboards

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Innovation teams and labs

Analyses on the conflict in Sudan

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A collaborative analysis platform for effective aid response

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Open data publishing platforms

Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A coalition of community and news organizations providing in-depth journalism and catalyzing civic action

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Newsroom partnership networks

Nieman Journalism Lab covered ProPublica's brilliant approach to getting government sources: parking one of those billboard trucks with an ad for their secure Signal number outside of government offices in DC as terminated employees left the building.

• place-based
• Project 2025

• Media
• Journalism
• Whistleblowing

Parody protest campaign

• Reduced inequalities
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

How do we ensure that community data from Papua New Guinea’s protected areas is reported and heard?

• biodiversity
• animals
• apps

• Evaluate impact
• Crowdsourcing
• Environmental data

by Mehran Khalili

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• The craft of organizing

A chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Generative AI

A questionnaire for AI vendors hoping to serve Lynwood, CA's school system

• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Procurement oversight

As Lynwood Unified moves forward with integrating artificial intelligence technologies into the classroom, the district is assembling an AI Taskforce to help guide this process. Download Resources

• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement
• Procurement oversight

digitalfems es una organización que defiende la diversidad de género en la industria tech.

• Gender Equality

• Diversity & Inclusion

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Procurement

The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech

Sahana makes high quality information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building accessible to all.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Alignment

[A] collection of works related with AI in public Administration, in a very broad sense.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Procurement

We are a network of ten established organizations working in the global majority, that collaborate to strengthen the digital resilience of the social justice ecosystem.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

Pix is an online platform open for everyone to assess, develop, and certify your digital skills

• Digital literacy
• Economic development
• Upskilling

The Open Gov Challenge Awards recognize the best initiatives submitted to the Open Gov Challenge, a global call to action aimed to encourage ambition in ten areas of open government critical to strengthening our democracies.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

parlament.fyi ist Österreichs erste KI-basierte Plattform über Politik. Künstliche Intelligenz fasst Beschlüsse und Reden aus dem Nationalrat einfach zusammen und liefert kompakte Analysen zu Sprachmustern und Argumenten der Parteien. Ergebnisse aus der Politik werden damit für alle leichter zugänglich und transparent.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Custom Merch, USA & Union Made, Eco-Friendly

• Merchandise

A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Hardware

Global Voices has launched a special series on how the decimation of US aid funding is affecting Global Majority nations and marginalized communities.

• Project 2025

• Get funding
• Journalism

• Digital literacy
• Diversity & Inclusion

We’re a not-for-profit co-op, working with people with a progressive mission who make the world a better place.

• coop

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Building in the private sector

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact