We are on a mission to end abject poverty around the world by powering a global "skillanthropy" movement.

• No poverty

• Pro bono and volunteer

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Cameras
• Ballot information

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

• books

• Govtech
• Books

4 million Users & Beneficiaries, 22 NGOs & Social Enterprises, 16 Indian States

• Resource matching and sharing

"US governments struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing technologies and with the expectations of the public for governmental service delivery akin to what they experience in other aspects of their normal daily lives."

• books

• Govtech
• Books

Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.

• Civic data
• Justice tech
• Open data publishing portals

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Many of the perpetrators of the US Capitol attacks on January 6th uploaded videos to Parler. These videos leaked, and here ProPublica visualizes them on a chronological timeline.

• Media
• Timelines

Report a dark pattern today. It will help us fight back against companies usingmanipulative dark patterns to take our private information, money, andtime. You deserve respect, online and off.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Nonprofit Giving Platform

• Fundraising tools

IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.

• banking
• Reduced inequalities

• Specific campaigns

This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• cities

• Accelerators

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

• Civic data
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Evaluate impact

Non-profit startup accelerator elevating #ClimateTech innovators & founders to move the needle on the climate crisis. Administered by SecondMuse

• Climate action

• Accelerators

A participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe

• Partner networks and coalitions

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Meeting tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C

• No poverty

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Resources for building open organizations The Open Organization is a community-driven project leading a global conversation about the ways open principles change how people work, manage, and lead. Our community members generate knowledge and share strategies for building organizational cultures on principles like transparency, adaptability, collaboration, inclusivity, and community.

• Adjacent Fields

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Books

Bi-Weekly Hacknights where technologists, designers, policy nerds, community builders, or basically anyone (yes, no matter what your background!) Come together to build solutions to civic issues in Tiohtià: ke / Montreal.

• Civic hacking meetups

The unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Civic Fabric is a platform for hosting public applications for citizens. The platform is in early development. Products are in alpha, and Civic Studio is looking to help government modernize and improve delivery of services online where it makes sense.

• Govtech

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Academia

Spotlight on Corruption works to end corruption within the UK and wherever the UK has influence · We track how the UK enforces its anti-corruption laws

• Watchdogging and transparency

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth

• Newsletters
• Factchecking

Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.

• US Election 2020

• Specific campaigns
• Advertising

Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.

• Media
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Fundraising tools

Our Advance Change Funds -donor advised funds- enable agile and efficient giving for individual donors and institutions.

• Funders & donors

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic tech

Fiquem Sabendo é uma organização sem fins lucrativos especializada noacesso a informações públicas

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy

• apps

• Digital security and privacy

A toolkit for communities to listen, tell stories, and imagine better futures together.

• Narrative tech
• Toolkits

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• cities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

Disclose is a not-for-profit organisation which bridges twin activities as both a media outlet and an NGO to promote investigative journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital transformation

Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand

• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic hackathons

We work with state and local governments to help with prototyping and procurement for federally-funded digital public services, using agile acquisition consulting services.

• local
• state

• Govtech

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.

• Media and social media analysis
• Timelines

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

This Ford Foundation toolkit includes introductory disability definitions and language guidelines, in addition to guidance on creating accessible in-person and virtual events, social media, and disability inclusive employment practices from recruitment to retention.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world

• Climate action

• Civic tech catalogs

AP provides tech companies with election updates via a proprietary API that tech companies can plug into with a subscription to answer voice search queries, among others.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.

• human rights

• Media
• Media monitoring

How local governments can serve people better through effective communications and digital services.

• local

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles