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
• Academia
• Crowdsourcing

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

• Factchecking
• Newsletters

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
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

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

• Funders & donors

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

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators

Protect personal spaces and possessions without compromising privacy

• apps

• Digital security and privacy

Archive of New York City directories

• city
• libraries
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Predecessors

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

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

Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs

• CTFG partners

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Tools and practices for making products and services accessible to everyone.

• guides

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life. 

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

We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

Created by, for and with disabled practitioners, Disability Futures is an initiative—developed in partnership with The Andrew W

• Fellowships
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

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

• books

• Govtech
• Books

We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

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

Enhance your privacy and break through firewalls.

• apps

• Digital security and privacy

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

Trestle is a non-profit team of expert engineers, designers, and product managers who partner with leading movement groups and campaigns doing critical organizing work nationwide.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

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

• local

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

• extensions
• Facebook
• YouTube

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Consumer watchdogging

Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.

• Bots
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

In this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.

• US Election 2020

• Media

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

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

UNI Global Union's Top Ten Principles for Workers' Data Rights fills an enormous gap with regards workers' rights in the new world of work.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Online courses