Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Public Space Awards
Come and join the Open Plans community on Thursday, May 1st for a festive celebration of the people behind our cityβs defining public spaces.
Miami Affordability Project (MAP)
The Miami Affordability Project (MAP) is an interactive online map providing data on the distribution of affordable housing, housing needs, demographic profiles, and environmental resiliency in greater Miami.
Eticas Audit library
An open-source Python library designed to assist developers in calculating fairness metrics and assessing bias in machine learning models.
Colab
Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisáes da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questáes cruciais para suas comunidades.
Checks & Balances Now
Checks and Balances Now is a legal and civic education initiative created by a group of lawyers who closely followed the work of the American Bar Associationβs Task Force for American Democracy
Adobe Content Authenticity Beta
Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.
#ReaffirmTheOath on Law Day
On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOathβa nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.
Productive Ways to Use GenAI for Civil Servants
This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.
Detecting Scammers
Fighting fraud is a noble cause. Using Artificial Intelligence to fight fraud is a smart strategy.
Hong Kong Accountability Archive
Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The Global Public Impact of GovTech
A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)
OrΓ§amento Participativo Digital do Estado do PiauΓ
O OPA Γ© um instrumento pioneiro que permite Γ população participar da elaboração do orΓ§amento anual do Estado do PiauΓ. AtravΓ©s do programa, os cidadΓ£os podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos pΓΊblicos sejam investidos em seus municΓpios.
DRAPAC VPN Bot
This bot offers an interface for requesting and accessing VPN support via Telegram and WhatsApp.
mInt: Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable text messaging platforms
At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University
All of .nyc
Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.
The Citizen Science Manual
This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.
Digital Action Lab
Over a nine month period, these participants will work with the CIVICUS team, technical experts, and each other to develop a fully funded project which will be delivered in their local setting.
Meta parental notifications and Adult Classifier
Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.
Analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem
A comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.
Digital Democracy Initiative (Denmark)
The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) is a programme aimed at safeguarding inclusive democracy and human rights in the digital age.
#50501
ββThe first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The ideaβ50 protests in 50 states on 1 dayβwas born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.
Papers, Please
βThe concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"
DOGE Master Database
WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
The Best Amendment
Itβs an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.
Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.
COLDIGIT glossary for Collective Intelligence Tools
A glossary for the repository of Collective Intelligence Tools and Case studies
Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)
GIJN is an international association that supports the work of investigative journalists worldwide.
Amazon Tracker
Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers
Anti-SLAPP
*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.
Violation Tracker Global
Violation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.
Subsidy Tracker
Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States
Violation Tracker UK
A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom
AI Policy Bulletin
AI Policy Bulletin publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance.
ICERAID
Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app
Support Responsible AI campaign
Media publishers campaign against AI taking content without compensation
Nightshade
Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms.
Centre For Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID)
We break information barriers and strengthen African democracies through research and media innovation
Stop AI giants stealing our work
Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.
Register of Charities
Find information about registered charities in England and Wales
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.
United Arab Emirates' Regulatory Intelligence Office
The new model includes the development of the largest national legislative database, which integrates not only federal and local legislation but also judicial rulings, government processes, services, and field-level systems.
International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)
Founded in 1895, it is one of the oldest non-governmental organisations and one of the largest ones measured by the number of people represented: 1 billion cooperative members on the planet.