Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Starlink cellular connectivity in disasters
Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones
America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem Map
Our goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive resource that educates and empowers users to engage in democracy.
Operation Black Vote
We are on a mission to amplify Black* voices and ensure our complete engagement in the national debate about how to build a better Britain founded on accessible citizenship, judicial rights, climate and racial justice, equality, and fairness.
Base de Dados Social
Moved by these challenges, Nova SBE’s team, represented by the Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center, started mapping the social ecosystem by creating a public and easily accessible platform aimed at providing quality information in a simple, intuitive, complete, and fair way about all social and environmental impact organizations in Portugal.
Public Hubs (PubHubs)
A public-owned social network for public institutions (municipalities, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, etc) to engage communities without using Big Tech, and instead using infrastructure based on public values
AMBER
Amber is a tool for blogs & websites to keep linked content accessible
Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure for Identity Systems
Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems
Flickr Foundation
Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…
2022 Inventory of Washington State Automated Decision-making Systems
30 ADS govtech applications in Washington state
Public Interest Tech Fund
The Fund is a shared space for philanthropists to leverage one another’s expertise, incubate investment strategies to advance visionary concepts, and catalyze big ideas that can transform the use of technology to serve the public interest.
Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing Field
3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI
WorkMoney
Connects Americans to public resources that help them lower their bills
A22 Network
We are a growing international network racing to save everything we love by using effective civil resistance across our 12 countries.
Digital Refugee Project (Stateles.ID)
Building a Digital Ecosystem for Refugees
USWDS + Tailwind
A modern rewrite that hopes to make it a bit easier for federal product teams to adopt, adapt, and extend the USWDS.
Operation Shamrock
"A global coalition working to fight organized cybercrime in Southeast Asia" - New York Times
Election SOS
Election SOS offers training & resources for journalists, connecting them to best practices, resources and support around election coverage.
Climate Change AI's Circle
This is a place to connect, share and discuss all things related to climate change & machine learning 🌏🔥 🤖💻
United Nations World Data Forum
The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.
GeoMSF Platform
A full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres
대전참여자치시민연대 예산감시 프로젝트 (Daejeon Citizens' Coalition for Participatory Autonomy Budget Monitoring Project)
Daejeon Citizens' Coalition for Participatory Autonomy Budget Monitoring Project
Smart Buildings TensorFlow Dataset
A powerful tool designed to train reinforcement learning agents to optimize energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions in buildings.
Weave
Get energy data with a few lines of code
Sentinel
Conservation X Labs’ Sentinel transforms wildlife monitoring tools — like trail cameras and acoustic recorders — with revolutionary and intuitive AI technology, processing environmental data in real-time as it’s collected.
Media Viability Accelerator
Join a free web-based platform that supports media to compete more effectively for audiences and revenues by learning from the performance of peers globally and participating in a marketplace of ideas.
Digital Square
Digital Square is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners to transform digital health.
Google Smart Buildings Control
A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.
Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool (NABIT)
The NABIT (Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool) is a low-cost, hand-held, field-ready automated tool to validate the identity of a wildlife or food product, anywhere in the world, without specialized training, equipment, reagents, or even continuous power.
Global DPI Summit
The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt, stands as a premier convening of stakeholders in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem, bringing together representatives from across the globe.
Circle (community platform)
Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.
Civic Texts
Insights about emerging technologies, digital democracy and public policy.
Conservation X Labs (CXL)
Unlike traditional conservation efforts, Conservation X Labs focuses on leveraging the best technology, the newest innovation, interdisciplinary genius, and the power of the marketplace to boldly confront the biggest problems facing the planet.
Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI)
A global team of DPI builders helping countries co-design localised solutions that scale
Govwatch
Rule of Law monitoring platform - Govwatch is a collective map of the state of the rule of law in Greece, made up of reports not just from the Govwatch team, but also from civil society organisations, journalists and academics, and citizens.
Cooperative AI Course
Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
Upward Mobility Data Dashboard
The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.
Arthro5a.gr
Κάθε πολίτης έχει το δικαίωμα να αποκτήσει πληροφορίες από δημόσιους οργανισμούς. Σύμφωνα με τον νόμο, οφείλουν να απαντήσουν.
AI for Changemakers
A global accelerator for AI innovators and nonprofits working to solve the world’s pressing challenges.
The Midwest Newsroom
The Midwest Newsroom is a partnership among Iowa Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.
Localwatch
Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του
Food and Agriculture Organization Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.
New York Focus
New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.
Plaza Cívica
We empower communities to actively engage with their governments in decision-making through technology, design, communication, and research, driving better public services and enhancing citizen participation in governance.
Visor Electroal Concejo 2024 - 2027
Vote map and data dashboard showing support for elected representatives in Cali, Colombia
Movement Voter Project (MVP)
Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.
Embaixadoras
Cada pessoa embaixadora de inovação cívica atua na organização de eventos locais, bate-papos, documentação de processos e, claro, na integração com os demais participantes da rede.