Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Iswe Foundation
Iswe Foundation is an independent democracy innovation centre. Our mission is to make governance systems work for people and planet.
Departure Dialogues Project
POPVOX Foundation, the Niskanen Center, Civil Service Strong, the Partnership for Public Service and the Foundation for American Innovation invite departing federal employees to share your insights to help inform future Congressional action to strengthen federal programs.
Interoperable Deliberative Tools (IDT) Cohort
The mission of this research area is to make today’s collective intelligence tools more open, modular, and interoperable, laying the groundwork for a capture-resistant ecosystem of deliberative tooling in which process innovation thrives and local creativity blossoms.
Union
Union is a civic co-pilot for New Yorkers that helps you find every representative for your address and contact them effectively on the issues that matter to you.
Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Public Procurement for Artificial Intelligence.pdf - Google Drive
A Mission- Oriented Playbook
The Better (Political) Leadership Substack
My promise with Better (Political) Leadership is simple: reflections that are practical, timely, evidence-based, inspiring, and human. For all leaders—but especially for those in politics, where every decision is magnified and every mistake can feel existential.
Global Citizens Assemblies at COP30
Bringing citizens to the heart of climate negotiations
Social Media Monitoring Products Repository
Airtable of 250+ Social Media Monitoring Tools (Sept 2025)
Bellingcat Tech Series
A how-to-series on the command line and Bellingcat research tools. Created with the beginner researcher in mind.
Our Neighborhood Today
A local events and community calendar system to keep neighbors informed about what's happening in their area.
Certified course on legislative scrutiny and technology
This course explores the theory and practice of legislative scrutiny and explores the potential role of technology to augment these efforts. The course will take place online and in Berlin from 8–22 January 2026.
Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search
This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.
From Dashboards to Data Acquisition: Charting the Social Media Monitoring Market
By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart
Neighbor Story Sharing
A platform for collecting and sharing personal stories from community members to build connection and understanding among neighbors.
How do Civic Tech platforms work together?
Case studies of 3 concrete examples of Civic Tech interoperability
Neighborhood Association Hub
A digital platform for neighborhood associations to manage activities, communications, and member engagement online.
Block Party Organizing
Tools and resources for organizing neighborhood block parties, including planning templates, coordination features, and community engagement.
Iknowwhatyoudownload.com
Tool that shows your IP address and its association with torrent records
Hyperlocal Neighbor Hub
A hyperlocal neighbor hub that brings care, resources, and connection to a specific neighborhood or block.
Neighborhood API
A minimal, open, stewarded feed format for sharing local events, assets, dreams, plans, and notices across neighborhood websites, tools, and communities.
Eliciting People’s First-Order Concerns: Text Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Questions
Comparing traditionally structured survey questions vs. the benefits of open-ended survey questions combined with text analysis to allow a wider range of responses.
Local Supplies Sharing
A resource sharing system where neighbors can lend and borrow party supplies and event materials within their community.
Community Apps Dashboard
A dashboard or directory showcasing community-built digital tools and resources created by and for local residents.
GoodGrid
Fund Your Mission, Cause or Idea. One Block at a Time.
InnovateUS
InnovateUS provides no-cost, at-your-own-pace, and live learning on data, digital, innovation, and AI skills for public service professionals like you.
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF)
The UN Democracy Fund supports civil society projects around the world that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes.
Trois cents contaminants dans nos nappes: polluant par polluant, notre analyse des eaux souterraines en France
Le Monde investigation into groundwater chemicals in France
Rutgers Democracy Lab
University initiative fostering research, education, and innovation in democracy and civic engagement.
Library Freedom Project
Library Freedom Project is a network of values-driven librarians working together to build information democracy.
Allmaps
Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
[A]n urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership
Tarbell Center for AI Journalism
The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI.
ADES - Groundwater data access portal
ADES is the national groundwater data access portal for metropolitan France and overseas departments. It gathers quantitative and qualitative data on groundwater on a public website.
Under the Surface - The hidden crisis in Europe's groundwater
The Under the Surface project, coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe and initiated by Datadista, delved into official data from European countries to reveal, for the first time, the extent of the danger we face.
How a Le Monde Team Uncovered 300 Contaminants in France’s Groundwater
A behind the scenes telling of how the international team collaborated with NGOs, scientists, funders, and newsrooms to combine open government data, mapping, and data journalism to produce the piece.
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Protomaps
Protomaps is a free, customizable map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.
Better Politics Foundation
We focus on equipping courageous leaders with new tools and ideas to reimagine political systems.
Public AI Inference Utility
Our team builds products and organizes advocacy to support the work of public AI model builders like the Swiss AI Initiative, AI Singapore, AI Sweden, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. We believe in public AI—AI as public infrastructure like highways, water, or electricity. Think of a BBC for AI, a public utility for AI, or public libraries for AI.
RSL Collective
The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together millions of online publishers and creators to protect their rights and negotiate for fair compensation from AI companies.
Really Simple Licensing (RSL)
RSL is an open standard that lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.
Lots to Gain
Lots to Gain explores how we can construct thriving democratic systems from building blocks called mini-publics, where randomly selected citizens gather, learn, connect, deliberate, seek agreement, and choose a way forward.
LatinoProsperity
LatinoProsperity is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the Latino wealth gap through national, state, and local advocacy.
Assemblies as a Tool for Just Democracy
"In this report, we look at all multiple forms of assemblies including civic assemblies, people’s movement assemblies and governing power assemblies. We discuss the potential and limitations of each model, explore how assemblies across the board have struggled to achieve impact and durability, and discuss ways that an “equitable power-building approach” can strengthen assemblies’ impact and durability over time."