Adjacent Fields
Although not always explicitly civic tech, these categories are directly adjacent, like tech for other shared, public challenges, or foundational layers that must be present for civic tech to succeed in its goals.
Mozilla Corporation
Putting people before profits since 1998
CodeYourFuture
At CodeYourFuture, they turn barriers into tech talent. Disadvantage into diverse workforce.
Metagov Slack
Metagov is host to a community of research and practice.
Tate's Online Safety Community
Provides guidance and tips on how every day people can enhance their personal privacy and security, minimizing their digital footprints.
CyberVisuals
Free images that visualize our most pressing cybersecurity challenges and how we can solve them together.
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs)
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as w...
Snowflake
Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.
OpenPV
Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA)
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is the leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization fighting to advance civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age.
Defesa dos Direitos Digitais (D3)
Pela defesa dos direitos digitais em Portugal
Microsoft AccountGuard
Microsoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the polit...
IODA (Internet Outage Detection and Analysis)
Monitor Macroscopic Internet Outages in Near Real-Time
Digital Rights Nepal
Digital Rights Nepal is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to the protection and promotion of digital rights in Nepal
Freedom Online Coalition
The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.
CDIAL
Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans
ReliefWeb
Informing humanitarians worldwide
Digital Trade Alliance
The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the...
Foxglove
Foxglove is a non-profit that fights to make tech fair for everyone.
Panoptykon Foundation
The Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change t...
Deceptive Patterns
A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book
The Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and techn...
Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) citizen toolkit
The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant na...
Por un Entorno Digital Accesible (PUEDA)
La iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actor...
Accessibility Lab (a11y Lab)
We are a company that seeks to ensure the inclusion of people with disabilities through accessibility in the digital world.
Journal für politische Bildung
Politische Bildung zu diskutieren und zu stärken sind die Ziele der zentralen Fachzeitschrift Journal für politische Bildung.
OA.Works
Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.
AI Forensics
AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investiga...
Plausible Analytics
Easy to use and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Connect Humanity
We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society
State of Digital Inequity
The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes...
EngageMedia Digital Rights program
We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.
Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model
Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-t...
The Future of Privacy Forum
FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, an...
Eticas
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compl...
Rightly
Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your...
Clean Insights
Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately...
Deceptive Design Resources
Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Common Voice
Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
Amnezia VPN
Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.
San Francisco Digital Accessibility and Inclusion Standard
This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.
Responsible Innovation Primer
A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders
IPleak.net
Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them
Startups & Society Initiative
We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.
RosKomSvoboda
RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.
Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
Team CommUNITY
Want to join the global digital rights and internet freedom community? We providing events, services, job board, community spaces, and more!
Humanitarian Innovation Fund
Aim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.