We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar.

• Civic data
• Effective altruism
• Open philanthropy

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

• air quality

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. Read our intro

• Get funding
• Effective altruism
• Open philanthropy

Nft-gated directory of low cost resources

• Access social benefits
• Blockchain
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

ALL YOU CAN LEARN – Das ist nicht nur der Name unseres Aus- und Weiterbildungsprogramms, sondern auch unser Versprechen an dich!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Purpoz, la plateforme de démocratie participative pour bâtir une société plus pertinente. (Citizen engagement platform by Cap Collectif)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumplir con valores de gobernanza imprescindibles en nuestros días como la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy

Advocacy Assembly is a free learning community for human rights activists and journalists.

• trainings

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

Um laboratório de comunicação e mobilização para causas, com foco no desenvolvimento de ações e campanhas baseadas em dados e na compreensão profunda de nichos de audiência, cultura digital contemporânea e conjuntura política.

• Media
• Public Relations and amplification

If you are a human rights defender at risk as a result of your work, ProtectDefenders.eu is to support you

• human rights

• Solidarity networks

Berkman Klein center research effort: GLOBAL COHORT OF EARLY-CAREER SCHOLARS AND PRACTITIONERS EXPLORES THE ETHICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS OF DIGITAL IDENTITY IN TIMES OF CRISIS

• Identity

Short case studies and guides to using free tools to create campaign videos

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

A short case study using ESRI to focus your campaign on the areas with the most potential supporters.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Targeting

Short case studies on how to use free or low-cost tools to produce campaign infographics

• Organize campaigns
• Infographics

The Digital Freedom Fund supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation.

• Digital rights
• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda

• refugees

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Co-design

The Future of Government Awards champions practitioners, teams and leaders who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves.

• Amazon

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

We have all the redistricting data you can use to draw or analyze Community of Interest or District maps

• gerrymandering

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

ArcGIS Field Maps is an all-in-one app that uses data-driven maps to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing, find assets and information, and report their real-time locations.

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

Designed to open humanitarian response to startups, social entrepreneurs, researchers, and other non-traditional actors capable of contributing solutions to the resopnse

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid

UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.

• youth
• United Nations

• Accelerators

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Diversity & Inclusion

The Digital Hub for Pro-Democracy Advocates

• Media
• Organize campaigns
• Creators and Influencers

A guide

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Targeting

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Translation and linguistic representation

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

The AWS Institute is a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation in the public sector.

• Amazon

• Civic teams at tech companies

Discover toolkits, tutorials, and templates for building winning campaigns.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

The Racism and Technology Center uses technology as a mirror to reflect and make visible existing racist practices in Dutch society.

• racial equity

Providing democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space

• Media
• Govtech
• Fight disinformation

자신이 주운 쓰레기 종류와 개수 데이터를 실시간으로 누적할 수 있으며, 플로깅을 마치면 GPS기반 소요시간/이동거리 등의 활동 정보가 ‘나의 쓰담기록’으로 저장됩니다. 어플 사용자 간 실시간 랭킹을 확인할 수 있음은 물론, 어플에 개설된 다양한 컨셉의 플로깅 프로그램에 참여할 수 있어 보다 흥미롭게 ‘지구쓰담’을 즐길 수 있습니다. (An app that lets you track your litter collection efforts)

• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Crowdsourcing

This study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities

• Digital literacy
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

An award for the public interest whistleblower of the year

• Awards and prizes
• Whistleblowing

Last year we piloted an initiative called Community Connections at the Responsible Data mailing list, where we connected two or more members of the community based on their shared interests in responsible data(RD)-related topics, allowing them to chat about topics and projects related to responsible data.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure

• United Nations

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Foundation initiatives

In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public sphere.

• reports

• Reports
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Voter registration

We set ourselves a task to create a short, simple, and practical resource to help teams who are designing projects to identify potential risks and harms.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Bits of Freedom was founded in 1999. We influence policies and legislation to support an open and fair information society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

a new organisation dedicated to supporting journalism in Europe

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

In partnership with Google and Propel, GiveDirectly is automating cash aid to Propel users living in areas deemed damaged by satellite imagery

• hurricanes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

A collection of tools designed to support gig economy workers

• labor

• Civic tech catalogs

We cut out noise and bring perspective to the news through AI

• apps
• history

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Fact-checking in the Dominican Republic

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Sinar Project is a civic tech initiative using open technology, open data and policy analysis to systematically make important information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations