Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

• human rights
• anti-trafficking

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The Advocacy Hub is a community of consultant campaigners, evaluators, facilitators and strategists who support and advise civil society organisations to become more effective and have greater impact.

• Organize campaigns

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Write rules as code

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Budget explorers
• Access social benefits

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

CiviCue is a decentralized autonomous civic media platform equipped with blockchain civic tech that aims to disrupt existing media landscape by serving as a public good collectively owned and managed by all users who contribute to the platform wellbeing and benefit from profit sharing, thus balancing commercial interests and social values.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Streamline your volunteer application process. In closed beta as of March 2023.

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

WordPress For News Organizations

• Media

Add a text hotline to your services for fractions of a cent per text! Carrier Pigeon lets your team receive & reply to clients’ texts in Slack. Carrier Pigeon is currently used by abortion access organizations to provide information, find clinics, and answer clients' questions - securely & confidentially.

• Slack

• SMS tools
• Hotlines

Maker of Wordpress, Tumblr, Longreads, and more

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

• Media
• Journalism
• Awards and prizes

Ampliamos los espacios de participación ciudadana en la toma de decisiones.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open government data
• Civic apps outfits

Policy decisions on and resource allocations for IEM tend to be made with inadequate data. The focus of the IDS programme is to coordinate a transboundary effort to develop indigenous data with indigenous stewardship.

• indigenous

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data activism

Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Nonprofit tech

منشور الزميل عادل فاخر

• Media
• Journalism
• Digital security and privacy

Building a Tribe of Voting Nigerians

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Voter outreach

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Community-owned internet infrastructure

• coop
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Connectivity
• Community-building resources
• Community wifi

Sharing information about Thailand and its development with the world.

• Civic data
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Eduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.

• Quality education

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Specific campaigns

NLA advances the cause of quality professional journalism, and welcomes news leaders, academics and others.

• Media
• Journalism
• Professional associations

A repository with over 1400 open datasets

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Innovation teams and labs

Open government initiative to encourage open and participatory government

• Participatory democracy

Grassroots Analytics Venture Fund is on the lookout for ideas that monetize or add value to GA's industry-leading progressive consumer database. This is a $500,000 fund for internal or external ventures.

• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Organize campaigns

Database of more than 20 million left-leaning donors

• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

Potential Energy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition that brings together America’s leading creative, analytic and media agencies to shift the narrative on climate change

• Climate action

• Advertising

Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• SMS tools

為意義尋找資源、為資源尋找意義

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Email campaign tools

Journalists in ICFJ's unparalleled network produce news reports that lead to better governments, economies and societies.

• free speech

• Media
• Peer networks

Code for Africa partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Ayin Network to offer a combination of training, professional mentorship and story grants to journalists in Nigeria and Sudan, to enable them to produce digital storytelling around issues of religious freedom, so as to improve understanding of tolerance versus militancy and extremism.

• trainings

• Media

An initiative from Code for Africa and ICFJ for Journalists to Help Citizens Overcome Barriers to Religious Freedom

• religion

• Media

OECD podcast episode

• Fight disinformation
• Podcasts

A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech

A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.

• resources

• Build something
• Design
• Visual Design

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Manage volunteers

Justice technology news, events and jobs by Jason Tashea

• Justice tech
• Newsletters

The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools