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OONI Explorer

OONI Explorer

OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world.

The Impact Map

The Impact Map

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Impact Map provides timely data—as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect. This tool is currently in beta and will continue evolving, so you may find areas that need updating.

NGI Innovations Catalogue

NGI Innovations Catalogue

Europe

So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. Discover their solutions.

Capitol Riot Map

Capitol Riot Map

Texas

Mapping the networks of the 1,580 individuals who were arrested, charged, or convicted for participating on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The Impact Project

The Impact Project

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities.

Pardon Tracker

Pardon Tracker

Texas

An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charges related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Braver Angels

Braver Angels

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

AI Security Institute (AISI)

AI Security Institute (AISI)

London

The AI Security Institute is the largest team in a government dedicated to understanding AI capabilities and risks in the world.

Google Maps Platform

Google Maps Platform

Mountain View, CA

Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform

Simply Stakeholders

Simply Stakeholders

From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relationships.

ARX Data Anonymization Tool

ARX Data Anonymization Tool

ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data.

360Giving Data Standard

360Giving Data Standard

London

The 360Giving Data Standard is a uniform and consistent way to describe grantmaking data.

Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN)

Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN)

Athens

The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a non-profit wireless community that aims to develop, use and promote a wireless broadband network in the wider Athens area.

Funds Online

Funds Online

London

8,553 sources of [UK] funding. Search thousands of funders awarding grants to a wide range of causes and beneficiaries

ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection

ProTECHtion: Digitally Powered Community Protection

Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Church Aid, with the support of Innovation Norway, is working on the design of a digital “meeting place” for communities at risk of violence to talk safely about needs, priorities, and aspirations.

Directory of Social Change

Directory of Social Change

London

UK-focused charity capacity-building organization

360Giving

360Giving

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

We are a charity that helps organisations publish and use open grants data so that people can understand the funding context, make informed decisions, and work together to support communities and good causes as effectively as possible.

The Directory of Grant Making Trusts

The Directory of Grant Making Trusts

London

With this guide, you'll have access to key information on over 2,000 grant-makers, each with the potential to give at least £50,000 per year. (£135.00)

UKGrantmaking

UKGrantmaking

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.

Gived.Org

Gived.Org

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

tools for organisational collaboration & fundraising

The Uncensored Library

The Uncensored Library

Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

Tariff Calculator

Tariff Calculator

United States of America 🇺🇸

A tool to help Americans see the effect of tariffs on groceries

Sky Ear

Sky Ear

A floating glowing cloud of LED-embedded balloons that listens out for electromagnetic waves in the sky.

Open Roles in Public AI

Open Roles in Public AI

United States of America 🇺🇸

All positions below are part-time and unpaid unless noted otherwise.

Trans Legal Clinic Residency at Pelican House

Trans Legal Clinic Residency at Pelican House

London

TLC is the first trans-led specialist gender identity legal practice in Britain, providing free and accessible legal help to transgender and non-binary people in need.

alphaXiv

alphaXiv

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers

The Community Networking Movement

The Community Networking Movement

Canada 🇨🇦

They were locally controlled sites on the Internet that typically free services including training and hardware donations, as well as e-mail (years before Google and others got involved) web space, and community forums

No Azure for Apartheid

No Azure for Apartheid

Join the growing No Tech for Apartheid movement and demand that Microsoft live up to its own purported ethical values—by ending its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.

The First Branch LLM

The First Branch LLM

Washington, DC

The First Branch LLM (Large Language Model) concept map below imagines the critical infrastructure needed at the enterprise level to create an accessible, accountable, and permanent information system for both the public and lawmakers.

OONI Probe (app)

OONI Probe (app)

OONI Probe is a free and open source tool to help measure internet censorship.

Council on Technology and Social Cohesion

Council on Technology and Social Cohesion

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

Lukim Gather

Lukim Gather

Williamsburg, VA

How do we ensure that community data from Papua New Guinea’s protected areas is reported and heard?

ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.

ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.

Washington, DC

Nieman Journalism Lab covered ProPublica's brilliant approach to getting government sources: parking one of those billboard trucks with an ad for their secure Signal number outside of government offices in DC as terminated employees left the building.

Street Level Surveillance

Street Level Surveillance

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility

Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility

Geneva, Switzerland

The GBV AoR brings together non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring life-saving, predictable, accountable and effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response in emergencies, both natural disaster and conflict-related humanitarian contexts.

IFRC GO

IFRC GO

Williamsburg, VA

IFRC GO aims to make all disaster information universally accessible and useful to IFRC responders for better decision making.

Thomson Reuters Labs

Thomson Reuters Labs

Toronto

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Williamsburg, VA

The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement

Every Voice, Every Vote

Every Voice, Every Vote

Philadelphia

A coalition of community and news organizations providing in-depth journalism and catalyzing civic action

Nexus Environment Assessment Tool (NEAT+)

Nexus Environment Assessment Tool (NEAT+)

Williamsburg, VA

Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations

Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience

Global Network for Social Justice and Digital Resilience

Global

We are a network of ten established organizations working in the global majority, that collaborate to strengthen the digital resilience of the social justice ecosystem.

Working bibliography on public procurement of Artificial Intelligence

Working bibliography on public procurement of Artificial Intelligence

Spain (España) 🇪🇸

[A] collection of works related with AI in public Administration, in a very broad sense.

ParticipationAI

ParticipationAI

Spain (España) 🇪🇸

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

Lynwood Unified Artificial Intelligence Taskforce

Lynwood Unified Artificial Intelligence Taskforce

Los Angeles, CA

As Lynwood Unified moves forward with integrating artificial intelligence technologies into the classroom, the district is assembling an AI Taskforce to help guide this process. Download Resources

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