Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic features
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories

• Report cards and audits

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions
• Archives

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

A newsletter on democracy, organizing, movements and tech by Micah Sifry

• Newsletters

Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa.

• Media
• Narrative tech

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Civic features

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

A development-focused map of Africa with layers for water, maize, etc.

• Civic maps

Solve for Good is the Data Science for Social Good Foundation's platform for social good organizations to post data projects they need help with, for volunteers to help scope those projects into well-defined problems, and to help solve those problems.

• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• Justice tech
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

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

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Cameras
• Ballot information

One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.

• waste
• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Republican answer to ActBlue, a platform for small-donor conservative fundraising

• partisan

• Fundraising tools

Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.

• Research and policy centers
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

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

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

• Climate action

• Accelerators

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

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

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Meeting tech

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
• Evaluate impact
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

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

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

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Academia
• Crowdsourcing

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

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

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

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

• Media
• Fundraising tools
• Creators and Influencers

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

• Funders & donors

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

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

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks

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