Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Protesters’ Rights (ACLU guide)
Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out into the streets.
Acter
A matrix-based mobile organizing app to organize your movement.
Informationsfreiheitsgesetz
Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) schafft einen voraussetzungslosen Anspruch auf Zugang zu amtlichen Informationen bei Behörden des Bundes.
Escazú Agreement
The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, better known as the Escazú Agreement (Spanish: Acuerdo de Escazú), is an international treaty signed by 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations concerning the rights of access to information about the environment, public participation in environmental decision-making, environmental justice, and a healthy and sustainable environment for current and future generations.
Africa Freedom of Information Centre
A pan-African, membership-based civil society network and resource center promoting the right of access to information, transparency, and accountability across Africa.
CEUK scorecards marking tool
This is a tool for crowdsourcing data, initially designed for gathering data about local authority climate actions for https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/
MyMzansi
A Roadmap for the Digital Transformation of the South African Government
No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation
This brief proposes adjustments for how we think about and approach advocacy monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
mySociety AI Framework
This is a working document of issues to consider when considering deploying Generative AI or Machine Learning (GAML) as part of a mySociety output or service.
Congressional RAG
CongressionalRAG democratizes access to legislative information by connecting citizens with bills, laws, and executive orders through an intuitive conversational interface.
Fondos para Eventos de la Comunidad CLISI
¡Atención, comunidad! 🎉 El Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI) celebra su 8º Aniversario y quiere festejarlo impulsando tus ideas. Por ello, lanza su Convocatoria Anual de Fondos para Eventos Comunitarios. Si tienes un proyecto para organizar una charla, un taller, un festival de cine o cualquier evento gratuito que beneficie a tu comunidad, ¡esta es tu oportunidad! La organización ofrece financiamiento de hasta 300$ y su asesoría para hacerlo realidad.
Miami-Dade County SMART Curbs Program
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Boston Curb Usage Map
To solve these challenges, the Streets Cabinet and Innovation and Technology Cabinet are building a digital map of Boston’s complex curb network and regulations.
ACY Learning Hub
E-learning Platform for Myanmar Youth, including Public Engagement courses on media literacy, digital safety, and news literacy.
Report algorithmic discrimination!
AlgorithmWatch's new campaign seeks to crowdsource reports of algorithmic discrimination. If you've experienced it or know someone who has, you can report it
Paradigm Initiative
Connecting African youth with digital opportunities and ensuring digital rights for all.
Agent Village
4 AI agents were given a computer and tasked with raising as much money as they could for charities in 30 days, for two hours per day.
Mygrants
The Mygrants app is a for-profit digital company created in response to the arrival of Ukrainian migrants in Italy, so that they may be socially and economically integrated into Italy.
Children On The Edge
Children on the Edge is a child rights organisation created to support the world’s most marginalised children, living in some of the toughest situations. We currently work with more than 20,000 children in Bangladesh, India, Uganda, Myanmar, and Lebanon.
Project Dastaan
Project Dastaan is a peace-building initiative which examines the human impact of global migration through the lens of the largest forced migration in recorded history, the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
Berlin Mondiale
To make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.
FindHello
FindHello is an app built in partnership with the UNHCR by USAHello, a non-profit organization that uses technology to connect immigrant communities with the information and resources they need to thrive. It seeks to target refugees who migrate to the USA.
The Refugee Buddy Project
A community group led by migrants and refugees formed in 2017, to provides support in the form of buddies, advocacy, financial and emotional support for refugees seeking safety in Scotland (specifically Hastings, Rother, and Wealden).
Watch The Med
Watch The Med is an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at the maritime borders of the EU. The WatchTheMed project was initiated as part of the 2012 Boats4People campaign in the Central Mediterranean. Today the project further involves a wide network of organisations, activists and researchers. Through the transnational cooperation with migrants’ rights organisations, activists, researchers, migrants, seafarers active in, around and beyond the Mediterranean and the use of new mapping technologies, WatchTheMed aims to document the deaths and violations that are the structural product of the militarized Southern European border regime. The online map allows to spatialise incidents across the complex legal and political geography of the Mediterranean Sea. Through the accounts of survivors and witnesses, but also the analysis of ocean currents, winds, mobile phone data and satellite imagery, it is possible to determine in which Search and Rescue zone, jurisdictions and operational areas an incident occurred – as well as showing other boats who were in the vicinity of those in distress. Spatialising such information is essential to determine responsibility for violations at sea. Apart from reconstructing past events, the participatory nature of the platform allows many different actors to to indicate ongoing situations of distress. The documentation generated by WatchTheMed seeks to support the work of organisations that defend migrants’ rights, inform migrants of their rights and security at sea, pressure authorities into respecting their obligations at sea, support the ongoing campaigns by the relatives of the dead and disappeared at sea, and support legal proceedings against those who violated the rights of migrants.
Phone Credits for Refugees (PC4R)
PC4R was set up in February 2016 by James Pearce as a way to provide phone credits to people in refugee camps.
Community Engagement Center
Gamifying Civic Engagement to Rebuild Community Wealth
Pontem Pro
Pontem Pro closes learning gaps and makes the German education system more accessible, understandable and feasible for migrants - for better education, integration and career opportunities.
pardesi.org.np
An information portal for Nepalese migrants to bridge the gap in their access to information.
Jangala
Jangala is a technology charity dedicated to providing essential internet access globally, with the goal of connecting 4 million people to the internet by 2030. Founded in 2015 as a volunteer initiative providing Wi-Fi to 5,000 people in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, Jangala offers a unique approach through its novel connectivity solutions, and takes great pride in its strong partnerships with international aid actors, grassroots organisations and public bodies.
Duolingo
The app aims to give everyone access to free language education.
aeneas
aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)
Datavoros
Datávoros is a research project on data collection through mobile applications developed by governments and companies. Their analysis focuses on understanding what data is collected and how, what permissions are requested, and what security and privacy measures are in place. It is built to create accountability and transparency for users.
Refugees Welcome International
The Refugees Welcome International network is united by its shared mission to provide private accommodations for refugees all over the world, with the aims of fostering exchange between refugees and locals, combatting discrimination and prejudice, and supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the establishment of local social networks.
Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB)
The organisation focuses on making skilled migration systems for refugees more accessible, and to create a world where displaced people can safely migrate for work, using their skills to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose. It also collaborates with governments to achieve its purpose.
GeoMatch
GeoMatch works in many settings, from refugee resettlement to immigration agencies and nonprofits that help aspiring immigrants. They tailor the software to the client’s needs.
Re:Match
Developing and applying a preference-based algorithm that brings together welcoming cities and people seeking protection, Re:Match aims to bring just, sustainable and human-rights centered innovation to the field of migration governance.
Āhau
Āhau is a Whānau Data Platform that helps whānau-based communities (whānau, hapū, Iwi) capture, preserve, and share important information and histories into secure, whānau managed databases and servers. Keep track of whānau whakapapa information, preserve and share cultural records and narratives, own and control whānau data and servers, and build a stronger sense of whānau, community and identity. (whānau is an extended family or community of related families who live together in the same area. Origin: New Zealand)
NaTakallam
NaTakallam leverages the freelance digital economy to provide income to refugees, displaced persons & their host community members, by hiring them as online tutors, teachers, translators & cultural exchange partners, regardless of their location & status.
Humanity Crew
Humanity Crew is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that communities affected by crises receive the critical mental health and psychosocial support they need.
Refugee Info
Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.
Taxonomising Resistance Technologies
This taxonomy is a living repository of digital systems that fall under the definition of what we call ‘Resistance Technology’ or ‘ResTech’, a digital layer in the migration sphere that is community-led, and built to fill gaps in information, welfare, and development through bottom-up means, thereby rebalancing existing power structures and enabling negotiation for people on the move.
Aapti Institute
We want an equitable and just digital world where people are empowered to negotiate with technology
Refugee Phrasebook
The Refugee Phrasebook is a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immediate needs. It is an open collaborative project that assembles important phrases from various fields, building a collection of useful words and phrases for refugees who just arrived.
Fugees Family
Fugees Family is a national nonprofit organization that partners with public school districts and communities to better serve refugee and immigrant students. Fugees is reimagining the ways educators connect with newcomer students
RefAid
The app seeks to ensure that migrants in Europe can access trusted services and accurate information in the palm of their hand - wherever they are.
Paper Airplanes
Paper Airplanes is a non-profit that seeks to prepare university students in conflict zones to be able to finish their university degrees through English language programs, among other initiatives.