Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
One Project
We’re building tools for participatory funding connecting resources directly to community-controlled funds on Common, our digital platform that connects people, organizations, and resources to coordinate and grow economic democracy to global scale.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections
Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.
BudLib
BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.
Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)
GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.
Signal Conso
Report an issue to a company, find out about your rights with France's Fraud Control.
deliberAIde
We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.
PastMaps
Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.
Glossary: The A to Z of collective intelligence and democracy
Curated definitions of key terms relevant to collective intelligence, democracy and governance.
Exploradores da Cidadania
A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!
Base dos Dados
Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.
MyPolis
Creating space to build a democracy for all, through games, children and young people learn about participation and citizenship while they play. We are active in 7 countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, and Mozambique.
maze impact
We are an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.
Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social scientists and computer scientists.
Democracy Fitness
With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!
Democracy R&D
We are an international network of organizations, associations, and individuals that develop, implement, and promote ways to improve democracy, from the local to the global level.
newDemocracy Foundation
newDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organisation. We aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making.
Party System Change
Mair examines how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems
MASS LBP
We have led more than 50 Reference Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies contributing approximately 71,000 volunteer hours to policy-making in Canada — making MASS internationally recognized for its work in public deliberation.
Citizen Science (Caren Cooper)
They’re our neighbors, in-laws, and coworkers. Their story, along with the story of the social good that can result from citizen science, has largely been untold, until now.
Digital Democracy: Political Participation and Citizen Engagement Through the Internet
This Library Note provides an overview of developments around citizens’ political engagement and participation through the internet.
Technological Innovation in American Local Governments
The Case of Computing
MosaicLab
we’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement
Public Domain Works Search Engine
We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.
Trust Law
Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide
Rural and Nonmetro Election Infrastructure Grant Program
CTCL is thrilled to launch a nonpartisan grant program to help rural and nonmetro election jurisdictions ensure reliable and secure elections consistent with applicable law.
Member of Parliament Office Manual
This is a non-partisan guide made to help new [UK] MPs & their staff establish and run their offices after the 2024 election.
GovWell
GovWell’s mission is to build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Google News Initiative
The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.
Pre-launch Startups Lab
The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.
UpTheVote (u/UpTheVote) subReddit
Official Reddit account to help you Up The Vote. Learn how to get registered, understand voting options and deadlines, and make your voice count.
Congruent Software Inc
Maximize your mission impact through technology. Let us help you harness its power.
Democracy Forward
Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."
10x
10x is the federal government’s very own venture studio
Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy.
Market research of existing Civic Technologies for participation
The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate's analysis of 31 digital participation platforms
Public Technology Institute (PTI)
Actively supporting local government technology leaders and their teams through research & content, professional development, consulting services, learning and networking events, membership, workforce connections and recognition programs.
gotham-grabber
gotham-grabber is a set of scripts written to archive journalism published on a set of now-defunct news sites
Artificial Intelligence - A Primer for State and Local Governments: Everything You Need to Know Since Yesterday
By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI
Weibo Community Notes feature (社区“附注”功能上)
Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.
New York City Official Public Restrooms Map
THE NYC public toilet Google map
有据 (China Fact Check)
China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news
UGhub
NITA-U is integrating all MDA systems to the UGhub Systems Integration Platform so as to enable seamlessly sharing of data across Government systems in a rational, secure, efficient and sustainable manner.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) car titles blockchain
California's DMV has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology to detect fraud and streamline the title transfer process, enabling residents to claim vehicle titles through a mobile app -- the first such initiative in the U.S.
Bundesgesetz über den Einsatz elektronischer Mittel zur Erfüllung von Behördenaufgaben (EMBAG)
Swiss law requiring government agencies disclose their source code when possible.
AgriStack
Agri Stack is the digital foundation being set up by the government to make it easier to bring various stakeholders together to improve agriculture in India and enable better outcomes and results for the farmers by using data and digital services.
Global Project Oasis
Project Oasis is a research effort to map independent digital media organizations, news creators and publishers-in-exile across 68 countries.