Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Jarbas Dashboard
Jarbas, a public panel of [Brasilian] parliamentary reimbursements, where suspicious purchases are easily accessible for public scrutiny.
Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP)
an independent charity dedicated to using, producing and communicating the best available evidence to improve policing
Concurso Nacional de Estudiantes Universitarios
Moot court competitions about intellectual property in Venezuela
Tazama
Open source transaction monitoring software
Innovating public service delivery through Digital Public Goods and Open Source
Free online course at ITU Academy funded by the EU
Community Network Map
This map shows municipal networks across the United States.
GovTech Glossary
GovTech Glossary contains definitions of key terms, concepts, and acronyms commonly found in the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) online survey.
GovTech Global Partnership (GTGP)
The World Bank's program to "support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice."
シビックテック・デザイン学創成寄付研 (Civic Tech Design Initiative (CTDI))
東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・
The World Bank's Civic Tech How-to-Note
This publication aims to provide practical, actionable insights and a deep understanding of CivicTech applications to support World Bank Group projects and government initiatives, enhancing transparency, enabling public feedback, and fostering collaboration.
Crowdvocate
Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.
Compiler Media, Inc.
Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.
Chit-Chat Japan
In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.
Doorknocking Training Bot
AI tool to train volunteers to knock doors for Labour in political campaigns
Rhetorical Labs
We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.
InOut.bot
InOut.bot uses the official WhatsApp API from Meta to send and receive your messages to/from the most popular platforms. Works with IFTTT.
GovTech Working Groups at the World Bank
The Bank launched GovTech Working Groups to provide thought leadership, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and support the development of sound GovTech solutions. Community building and impact-driven collaboration are the core objectives of this initiative.
Earth Fire Alliance
Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.
デジタル空間社会連携研究機構 (Digital Sapital Society (DSS))
デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通
Constituency Explorer
A tool to help you run local campaigns with local data.
GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI)
The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of GovTech maturity in four focus areas — supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers— and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.
UK Electoral Commission Chatbot
Find information faster on the Electoral Commission website: Use our chatbot to do the searching for you
Air Quality Stripes
Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world
FireSat
A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.
FireBench
FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.
Conspiracy Debunking Conversations
An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.
دليل الأمن الرقمي للنشطاء في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا (Digital Security Guide for Activists in the Middle East and North Africa)
قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)
Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action
Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.
Automating (In)Justice: An Adversarial Audit of RisCanvi
Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."
State of Nevada using Google Vertex AI to Determine Worker Benefits
"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."
Empowering Indigenous Communities: Land Alienation in Tripura and Restoration through ICT Initiatives
Through a comprehensive analysis of various ICT projects, this study examines the success and challenges of using technology to protect and restore land rights.
AI & Democracy Foundation
To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Technology & Racial Justice Collaborative (TRJC)
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.
Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) Macedonia
The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.
¿Cómo Crear Historia con Datos?
La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos
InvenioRDM
InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.
DWeb Camp
Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.
Copbot
A prototype project that aims to help understand how AI models and humans differ in their perception of risk.
The People Say
A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.
Google Heat Resilience Tool
Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.
Tides Foundation
Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.
Code for All_
Tech upskilling platform including Máquina de Identificação de Talento (MIT), "para avaliar o potencial de requalificação dos trabalhadores e, assim, agilizar a seleção de candidatos para formação"
Civic Echo
Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.
Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University
The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.
Review of Text to Speech solutions
Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible