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Advocacy tech

Tech used to campaign, argue for change, and advocate on behalf of something or someone.

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Handraiser
handraiser.com

Handraiser

Cutting edge software & mobile apps to help you manage any type of campaign. Turn Voters into Votes.

Austin, TX
since 2016
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Peer to peer SMS
Open Petition
openpetition.eu

Open Petition

OpenPetition is an online petition platform with the goal of protecting the freedom to petition as well as expanding digital participation opportunities across the European Union and beyond.

Greifswalder Straße 4, 10405 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
since 2010
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Petitions
StadtRat Monitor Leipzig
web.archive.org/web/20200928193231/https://stadtratmonitor.leipzig.codefor.de

StadtRat Monitor Leipzig

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪
since 2017
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
Parliament Petitions
petition.parliament.uk

Parliament Petitions

Official online petitions in response to issues of the day, listing the number that got a Government response, and those that have been debated in the House of Parliament

London
since 2015
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Petitions
United Kingdom (government)
Coworker.org
home.coworker.org

Coworker.org

Coworker.org is a platform for worker voice. Find out why employees of some of the world's largest companies are using Coworker.org to win change.

since 2013
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Narrative tech organizing
ResistX protest SMS alerts
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6IF7fCAzzI7-Zx67e-8hwrOQCRWbM1VB6Q7hlE2KEYEoIBQ/viewform?c=0&w=1

ResistX protest SMS alerts

Sign up to have your daily NYC protest update texted and emailed to you.

since 2017
Activism aggregators, Advocacy tech, The Tech
Connected Development (CODE)
connecteddevelopment.org

Connected Development (CODE)

We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

Abuja
since 2019
Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations, Specific campaigns
Mulika
web.archive.org/web/20220314064726/https://mulikakenya.co.ke

Mulika

Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.

Kenya 🇰🇪
Adjacent Fields, Advocacy tech, Legal tech
WhatDoTheyKnow
whatdotheyknow.com

WhatDoTheyKnow

Get answers from the government and public sector

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2008
Advocacy tech, Access to information, The Tech
Access to Information Community of Practice
Integrity Action
integrityaction.org

Integrity Action

Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

The Leather Market, London
since 2019
Advocacy tech, Partner networks and coalitions, The Tech
Change.org India's Messenger Bot
m.me/Change.orgIndia

Change.org India's Messenger Bot

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳
Advocacy tech, Artificial Intelligence, Bots
Upland Mobile Messaging
uplandsoftware.com/mobile-messaging

Upland Mobile Messaging

Enterprise Mobile Messaging that Drives Results

401 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX
since 2012
Organize campaigns, SMS tools, The Tech
Progressive Technology Project
progressivetech.org

Progressive Technology Project

Taking control of our movement technology

since 1998
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, The Tech
partisan
Sunshine Week
sunshineweek.org

Sunshine Week

Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.

Washington, DC
since 2005
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
The Movement Cooperative
movementcooperative.org

The Movement Cooperative

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the che...

Greeley Square Station 4 East 27th Street New York, NY 10001-9998
since 2018
Meet the others, Organize campaigns, Partner networks and coalitions
coop, partisan
Fundación Ciudadana Civio
civio.es

Fundación Ciudadana Civio

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

C/ Sebastián Elcano 32, 1st Floor, office nº 17. CP 28012, Madrid. España (Spain)
since 2011
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
Access to Information Community of Practice
BERN app
app.berniesanders.com

BERN app

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

Burlington, VT
since 2019
Advocacy tech, Civic data, Crowdsourcing
apps
Tous élus
touselus.fr

Tous élus

Training and empowering young people to help them run for office

Paris
Advocacy tech, Help more people run for office, The Tech
Hackdash
hackdash.org

Hackdash

Ideas for a hackathon. Upload your project. Add colaborators. Inform status. Share your app.

since 2012
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Organize events
Catalist
catalist.us

Catalist

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia

United States of America 🇺🇸
Adjacent Fields, Advocacy tech, Civic data
Sprawdzamy Jak Jest
sprawdzamyjakjest.pl/#!/public/landing-page

Sprawdzamy Jak Jest

a tool to crowdsource answers to FOIA request.

Poland (Polska) 🇵🇱
Advocacy tech, Civic data, Crowdsourcing
Follow The Money Nigeria
followthemoneyng.org

Follow The Money Nigeria

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

Nigeria 🇳🇬
since 2014
Advocacy tech, Specific campaigns, The People
Corporate Tax Tracker
taxtracker.eu

Corporate Tax Tracker

A tool to examine publicly available key financial data of the 20 largest European banks.

Brussels
since 2019
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
Bringing Social Safety Net Benefits Online
codeforamerica.org/explore/benefits-enrollment-field-guide

Bringing Social Safety Net Benefits Online

Comparison of online social benefit platforms for all 50 US states

United States of America 🇺🇸
Advocacy tech, Engagement tech, Access social benefits
health, Good health and well-being
Operation Serenata de Amor
serenata.ai

Operation Serenata de Amor

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessi...

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
since 2016
Advocacy tech, Emerging Tech Report Projects, Emerging tech
Open Source Event Manager
osem.io

Open Source Event Manager

Event management tailored for Free and Open Source community conferences.

since 2015
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Organize events
Change.org
change.org

Change.org

The world’s platform for change

since 2007
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Petitions
DoNotPay bot
donotpay.com

DoNotPay bot

The World's First Robot Lawyer

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA
since 2015
Artificial Intelligence, Bots, The Tech
apps, LGBTQI, refugees
Integrity Watch Chile
integritywatch.cl

Integrity Watch Chile

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of lobbying activities in the UK.

Santiago, Chile
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
Rosie
serenata.ai

Rosie

An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
Advocacy tech, Artificial Intelligence, Bots
Marsad Baladia
baladia.marsad.tn

Marsad Baladia

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. T...

4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie
since 2014
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
city, Sustainable cities and communities
Center For Political Beauty
politicalbeauty.com

Center For Political Beauty

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

Advocacy tech, Artistic interventions, Specific campaigns
CallHub
callhub.io

CallHub

Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

California
since 2011
Advocacy tech, Phone banking tools, Campaign tools
Majlesnama
web.archive.org/web/20211215194738/http://majlesnama.ir

Majlesnama

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Tehran
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
Black Lives Matter Ways to help Carrd
blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

Black Lives Matter Ways to help Carrd

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

Activism aggregators, Advocacy tech, The Tech
racial equity
Count Love
countlove.org

Count Love

Protests for a kinder world.

Cambridge, MA
Activism aggregators, Advocacy tech, Civic data
FOIA Machine
foiamachine.org

FOIA Machine

Our simple tool allows anyone to generate a public records request with all the necessary legal boilerplate, all for free.

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2013
Advocacy tech, Access to information, The Tech
La Asociación de Tecnología, Educación, Desarrollo, Investigación, Comunicación (TEDIC)
tedic.org

La Asociación de Tecnología, Educación, Desarrollo, Investigación, Comunicación (TEDIC)

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

Padre Cardozo 719 c/ Teniente Ruiz, Las Mercedes, Asunción
since 2012
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Digital security and privacy
Gender Equality
Changing the Conversation Together
ctctogether.org

Changing the Conversation Together

Deep canvassing

Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Canvassing & Doorknocking
Del Dicho al Hecho
deldichoalhecho.cl

Del Dicho al Hecho

Tracking promises made by governments

Santiago, Chile
since 2011
Advocacy tech, Promise trackers, Report cards and audits
Attendize
attendize.com

Attendize

Attendize is an Open-source ticket selling and event management platform and is everything you need for a successful event. Attendize has a wide array of features aimed at making organising events as...

since 2016
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Organize events
Swayable
swayable.com

Swayable

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which...

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2017
Media, Media and social media analysis, The Tech
Budget Visualization & Taxpayer Receipt Tool
smartcville.com/budget-visualizations-for-cities

Budget Visualization & Taxpayer Receipt Tool

Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.

Charlottesville, VA
Advocacy tech, Budget explorers, The Tech
Wordpress
Open Supporter Data Interface
opensupporter.org

Open Supporter Data Interface

We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.

since 2019
Civic data, Data schemas and standards, The Tech
partisan
MyLO – currently internal
lwvc.org/mylo

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.

since 2017
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, The Tech
Project Drawdown
drawdown.org/solutions

Project Drawdown

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

San Francisco
Adjacent Fields, Advocacy tech, Report cards and audits
Climate action, Responsible consumption and production
Rouhani Meter
rouhanimeter.com

Rouhani Meter

Iran's first and only promise-tracker

Iran, Islamic Republic of (Īrān) 🇮🇷
Advocacy tech, Promise trackers, The Tech
Indicator Toolbox
indicatortoolbox.eu

Indicator Toolbox

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

Europe
Advocacy tech, Civic data, Govtech
Chileleaks
chileleaks.org/index.html

Chileleaks

Safe and anonymous platform for whistleblowing in Chile

Santiago, Chile
since 2018
Advocacy tech, The Tech, Watchdogging and transparency
TenderBase
tenderbase.eu

TenderBase

This tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in...

Europe
Advocacy tech, Govtech, Procurement
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