Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Blockchange
An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.
GOV.UK Performance Dashboards
If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.
Data Science for Social Good, UChicago
Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact
Ethelo
Ethelo decisions is a web platform or business intelligence tool built to help groups, communities or organization to find effective decisions quickly and fairly.
The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field
Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech
ARTIFICE
"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.
The Center for Social Media and Politics
To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.
Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy
The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
CityMonitor (formerly CityMetric)
City Monitor covers housing, transport, infrastructure, design, zoning and urban policy innovations in cities around the world
The Duke Endowment
Since 1924, The Duke Endowment has worked to help people and strengthen communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds and enriching spirits.
Open Field
OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.
Demand Progress
Mobilizing the public to promote freedom
Source Africa
It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.
Pocket Reporter
Pocket Reporter is an mobile app that can be used as a personal news editor for journalists. The app is available in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Portuguese and Spanish.
Justice Today
Justice Today is a mobile application that protects citizens from crime and utilizes artificial intelligence to educate citizens on the steps to take when victimized. The platform also allows citizens to report crime in real time
Tech Kontra Wirus
Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas
Idea Generation and the Role of Feedback: Evidence from Field Experiments with Innovation Tournaments
In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators a
Research Action Design (RAD)
Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.
Mapping the News and Information Ecosystem
A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem
US Elections Project Early Vote Statistics
State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned
Popit
Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.
Community Approach to Research Partnerships @ Emerson
The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...
Libre AI
Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."
Open active voting
"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."
La boîte à idées
A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.
OECD Digital Government Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.
Hackpad
More than a doc, Dropbox Paper is a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.
Neocity
Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en
DKAN
DKAN comes out-of-the-box with comprehensive public-facing engagement and administrative site management tools.
Center for Civic Design
Democracy is a design problem
NY Senate Bill Alerts
The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.
Google AI for Social Good
At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.
Wahl-O-Mat
The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.
Design for America
Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.
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What Have Unions Done For Us
Recent victories and wins by labour unions across various sectors