Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Sign Dict
A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund
Tech for Campaigns
Tech for Campaigns (TFC) is a community where world class tech talent meets progressive and centrist political campaigns in need of skilled volunteer talent. The promise is not only different political outcomes but the sustained engagement of people concerned with the direction America is going.
Discovery Sprints
A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.
Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
GSBI Online
GSBI Online Accelerator provides transformative mentorship, for transformative impact
Open Supporter Data Interface
We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.
The Coronavirus Hackathon (April 18-19)
We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.
Code for Pittsburgh
Code for Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh region’s Code for America Brigade, makes the Pittsburgh region a better place through the use of information and technology.
London Civic Innovation Challenge
In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.
CauseVox
Online fundraising software for nonprofit crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donation pages. Start taking donations online for free.
Whose Knowledge
We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
MyLO – currently internal
Welcome to the My League Online info center! My League Online (MyLO) Drupal website program leverages new technologies to make state and local League websites high-performing and easy to use.
Free Software Foundation
A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.
CryptoHarlem
CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.
The Markup
We are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.
Google Public Alerts
Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.
Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)
PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.
Ryecatcher
RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.
Drone Journalism Lab Operations Manual
The Drone Journalism Lab's Operations Manual is here to help your news organization with using flying robots to report news.
Project Drawdown
Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
Veterans Affairs Canada Find benefits & services tool
By answering just a few questions, this tool can provide a list of benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada that are the most relevant to you.
OKTHANKS
Okthanks is an independent organization providing research and product design services for open source technology. We unite with a mission to leverage technology for social good.
Digital Sherlocks 360/OS
360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.
Campaign Accelerator Training
Learn to design creative, people-powered advocacy campaigns that transform systems
Polis
Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
Candid
Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."
NYC Libraries Digital Safety program
NYC Digital Safety: Privacy & Security is a partnership between New York City’s three library systems and METRO, a library resources council serving NYC and Westchester County
OpenIDEO
Through OpenIDEO, people worldwide come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good.
Kaiser Permanente Foundation
Kaiser Permanente | Our News and ViewsNews and views from one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans.
Opioid Mapping Initiative
Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps
Civic Tech Playbook for Canadian Municipalities
A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community
MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology
This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.
FutureAir
FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality
My Smart City
The prices of basic necessities (e.g., maize flour) are very important
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
National Priorities Project
National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making
MobiSAM
MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.
New York City Civic Engagement Commission (CEC)
The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.
Progressive Shopper
Install the Progressive Shopper Chrome extension and quickly understand if you are supporting a brand that is aligned with your values.
Penda
Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.
VOXMAPP
VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.
Passport
Passport transforms the way cities manage their operations by reducing operational complexity and delivering intelligent data.
Dominion
Dominion makes data available to help add context and authority to public discourse and policy-making on vital issues of land ownership.