Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Partisan Hub
We’re currently building the Hub – your new space to connect with political innovators, discover tools, and access exclusive offers.
Predictions for Journalism 2026
NiemanLab's annual series has a fun new visual format: "Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead."
Volby pro všechny
Helping people with a migration background connect to Czech politics
Beast Philanthropy and Rockefeller Foundation Strategic Partnership
Beast Philanthropy, the charitable organization founded by Jimmy Donaldson, the world’s #1 creator known globally as MrBeast, and The Rockefeller Foundation today announced a strategic partnership to collaborate, learn from each other, and drive progress for the most vulnerable. It's great to see philanthropy staying up to date on what resonates in the media environment. I'm just already nervous about what kind of videos their development trip to Ghana will produce.
Open Plaques
Open Plaques is a community-based project which brings to life the history that plaques encapsulate.
LegiList
LegiList is a nonpartisan civic data platform that consolidates official U.S. congressional records—bills, lawmakers, votes, committees, laws, disclosures, and analytics—into a unified public resource.
Logos
Logos is a social movement and decentralised technology stack built to revitalise civil society.
Uber kiosk
A new, phone-free way to book an Uber, perfect for international visitors arriving without a local data plan.
Agent Skills
Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently.
Data Center Watch
We’re a boutique research firm tracking the growing opposition to data center development
BirdXplorer
BirdXplorer is a tool for combating disinformation that uses Community Notes data from X (formerly Twitter).
Toyooka iDO
Toyooka iDO is a child-friendly web-based service by the Toyooka Smart Community that shares local events and facility information useful for parenting, is easy to access on smartphones without registration or app installation, and allows anyone to post event information.
Unified Sentence Portal
Portal with information resources on judgments handed down by the Chilean judiciary, whose search engines improve results and reduce search times, combining the principles of publicity with the protection of personal data.
Public Service Viewpoint Survey
In August 2025, the Office of Personnel Management decided to cancel the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Because of this decision, the Partnership created the Public Service Viewpoint Survey to fill this critical gap and provide career federal employees with an opportunity to share their perspectives on their workplace, work unit, supervisor, organization and leadership.
Civic Glossary
The Public Servants team is defining and explaining common civic tech terms
AI Government Leadership Program
With support from Microsoft and Google.org, we are creating a cohort of senior leaders across government who are prepared to guide their agencies’ AI strategy.
ScanGov
ScanGov is a government digital experience platform that helps public agencies monitor, improve, and maintain their websites. The service combines automated scanning with clear guidance to help government teams deliver better online services to the public through standards-based improvements.
Public Servants
We’re a team of experienced public servants, designers, and strategists who help organizations solve complex problems and strengthen systems that serve everyone better.
Good Services - the book
The bestselling book by Lou Downe about how to design services that work
Google Trends API
The Google Trends API enables programmatic access to data from Google Trends, helping researchers, journalists, and developers conduct better analysis on search behavior and trends.
Habeas Dockets
Enhancing public access to federal habeas corpus case documents restricted under FRCP 5.2(c)
RevEngine
Our fundraising software serves newsrooms of all sizes. We even have a free option!
Open Budget Survey
First launched in 2006, the Open Budget Survey is the world’s only independent, comparative, and fact-based research instrument to measure these essential aspects of governance and accountability: Participation, Oversight, and Transparency
CIVICUS Monitor
Our interactive world map allows you to access live updates from civil society around the world, track threats to civil society and learn about the ways in which our right to participate is being realised or challenged.
CIVICUS
CIVICUS is a global alliance that champions the power of civil society to create positive change.
Public Procurement: Common Risks and How to Address Them
This interactive guide helps you connect everyday public service delivery failures to specific public procurement risks.
The On Think Tanks State of the Sector Report
The On Think Tanks State of the Sector Report 2025 provides an overview of how think tanks worldwide are navigating an increasingly polarised environment, as well as a comprehensive snapshot of the sector’s current state and future prospects.
CIV.IQ
CIV.IQ is a web utility that helps Americans find and learn about their elected representatives at federal and state levels using real government data, including voting records, campaign finance, and sponsored legislation.
The Connectivity Policy Corps
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and Public Knowledge are excited to announce the launch of the Connectivity Policy Corps (CPC), a groundbreaking program designed to shape broadband and digital inclusion policies nationwide.
Govtech Ventures
Investing in the Technologies Modernizing State & Local Government
Reimagining Digital Identity exhibition
An exhibition of drawings by Karen refugees from the Thailand-Myanmar border.
Wi-Fi Caucus
Initially founded in 2018, the Wi-Fi Caucus is dedicated to assisting Members of Congress in better understanding how Wi-Fi benefits the American public, consumers, economy, and the larger geopolitical standing of the United States.
FireGuard Program
FireGuard uses military satellites with the National Interagency Fire Center, U.S. Forest Service and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Firefly capability to detect wildfires, notify authorities, and create products to disseminate to firefighting networks nationwide.
Madison AI
The Madison AI™ platform unites your agency’s scattered data and systems into knowledge AI to research anything and draft staff reports/memos in minutes.
Reimagining Digital ID (REDID)
Our research project aims to understand how Karen refugees in Thailand experience digital identity systems and to inform the development of digital identity systems which are fair for the people who use them.
Shared Code: Democratizing AI Companies
In this note we offer AI companies, specifically those that train and deploy frontier models, a set of viable and achievable options for democratizing the governance structures of their organizations.
WriteToThem
Email your Councillor, MP, MSP, MS, MLA or London Assembly Member for free
Microsoft Airband
The Microsoft Airband initiative was launched to bring transformative connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
goose
your local AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly install goose
iOS Emergency SOS Live Video
Emergency SOS Live Video allows users to share context through streaming video and recorded media.
Recoding America Fund
A six-year bipartisan effort to strengthen America by building the government we need to compete globally and serve citizens effectively.