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.
Ada's List
All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.
Círculo
Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.
#VisibileWikiWomen
Centering the knowledges of marginalised communities from around the world. Re-imagining the internet to be for and from us all.
7000 Languages
We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.
A People’s Guide to AI
This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and drea...
Aira
Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a bu...
#BoycottNRA
Come for the discounts, stay for the opposition to common sense gun laws.
HAYAT
Hayat Technologies is a specialised health-tech analytics and digital solutions provider
AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory
A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically
Ada Developers Academy
A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
1Password for democracy
Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy
PolicyKit
A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.
Open Knowledge Brasil
A Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR), também chamada de Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre, é o capítulo da Open Knowledge Internacional no Brasil.
Digital Infrastructure Incubator
Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency
This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
Co-op Foundation
The Co-op Foundation helps disadvantaged communities overcome their challenges by putting co-operative values into practice. It aims to stimulate and strengthen community action that connects and empo...
Hukoomi
Hukoomi is an e-governance application which provides access to a broad range of information, including legal information for business, and information about visa and immigration procesess.
Openly Operated
The free transparency certification
JusticeTrans
JusticeTrans offers legal information about transgender rights across Canada.
Legal Robot
Legal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.
Up & Go
Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about
Our Data Bodies
Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities,...
Wonder.Legal
Wonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.
Citizen Lab Summer Institute
The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing...
Project Shield
Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of co...
Constitute Project
Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.
The Glass Room
a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.
Wukla
Wukla is an online platform where users can create agreements and legal documents, and have these delivered to their house.
Guardian Project
Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications...
Red Team Lab at Open Tech Fund
The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer...
The Story of Stuff Project
The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community...
Tea Party
The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.
Law Strive
Law Strive is a website through which individuals and businesses can get instant legal advice, and hire lawyers.
LawyerLinx
LawyerLinx is a legal marketplace where individuals and businesses can find lawyers on demand.
Rarenet
Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.
Mission Billion Challenge
to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.
CV Dazzle
Camouflage from face detection
Outline
Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.
The Internet Master Plan NYC
The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.
Barefoot Law
Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.
Attorned
Attorned is a platform that links clients to lawyers through a bidding system. It increases access to justice by presenting a large pool of lawyers from multiple sectors.
Project Callisto
Project Callisto helps survivors of sexual assault and harassment on college campuses document sexual assault, seek counseling, and start an investigation.
The Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST)
a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions
Centre for Indigenous Innovation and Technology
A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.
Data & Society Research Institute
Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.
Virtual Lawyer
Virtual Lawyer is a web-based platform where individuals can find legal assistance from a pool of virtual lawyers, based on their requirements.
The Layman's Lawyer
On the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.
Small Media
Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities global...
Level-up
Resources for the global digital safety training community.
Center for Civic Education
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engag...