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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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A customisable pipeline for the semi-automated discovery of online activists and social campaigns on Twitter
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11280-021-00887-2

A customisable pipeline for the semi-automated discovery of online activists and social campaigns on Twitter

Media and social media analysis, Advocacy tech
X (Twitter)
Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists
ash.harvard.edu/articles/using-ai-now-to-improve-movements-effectiveness-a-basic-introduction-guide-for-social-activists

Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
since 2025
Advocacy tech, Artificial Intelligence
guides
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop
ash.harvard.edu/resources/how-ai-can-support-democracy-movements-summary-report-of-a-research-and-practice-workshop

How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
since 2025
Reports, Learn about civic tech, Artificial Intelligence
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14742837.2024.2415674?src=

Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their da...

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
since 2024
Peer-reviewed research, Academia, Learn about civic tech
Israel Palestine
Protect My Public Media
protectmypublicmedia.org

Protect My Public Media

NPR and PBS have teamed up to fight US Congress's elimination of $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2025
Specific campaigns, Advocacy tech, Public media
Project 2025
The Outrage
the-outrage.com

The Outrage

The Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world w...

Washington, DC
since 2016
Civic tech gifts, Advocacy tech
partisan
Project Moonshot (@projmoonshot)
instagram.com/projmoonshot

Project Moonshot (@projmoonshot)

Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2025
Advocacy tech, Specific campaigns, Celebrating public service and public servants
Project 2025
Department of People who Work for a Living
deptofpeoplewhowork.org

Department of People who Work for a Living

We’ll be ensuring the federal government works for working people and isn’t destroyed by billionaires like Elon Musk. We’ll report on the facts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts a...

Washington, DC
since 2025
Celebrating public service and public servants, Advocacy tech, Specific campaigns
labor, Project 2025
Federal Workers Against DOGE
linktr.ee/fedsagainstdoge

Federal Workers Against DOGE

Standing with federal workers against a corporate-backed coup led by DOGE.

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2025
Advocacy tech, Specific campaigns, Celebrating public service and public servants
Project 2025, labor
¡Reclamo!
reclamoapp.org

¡Reclamo!

The All In One Platform To Help Workers Recover Stolen Wages JOIN US

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
Open justice, Advocacy tech
labor, Decent work and economic growth
Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast
nonviolent-action-lab-podcast.simplecast.com

Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast

The Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice.

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA
since 2024
Podcasts, Learn about civic tech, Advocacy tech
podcasts
Nonviolent Action Lab
ash.harvard.edu/programs/nonviolent-action-lab

Nonviolent Action Lab

The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests,...

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA
Advocacy tech, Artificial Intelligence, Research and policy centers
AI and Democracy Movements Project
ash.harvard.edu/ai-and-democracy-movements-project

AI and Democracy Movements Project

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA
Advocacy tech, Artificial Intelligence, Research and policy centers
Make It Fair campaign
newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair

Make It Fair campaign

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

London
Artificial Intelligence, Media, Specific campaigns
Stop AI theft
Twin Cities Innovation Alliance
tciamn.org

Twin Cities Innovation Alliance

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People o...

Minneapolis
Campaign organizations, Advocacy tech, Digital rights
Quality education, surveillance, CTFG partners
Restore the Gulf of Mexico
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/restore-the-gulf-of-mexic/lonhbfacjemgflooloncigacbgmdgfmo

Restore the Gulf of Mexico

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

Artistic interventions, Advocacy tech, Mapping tools
extensions, Project 2025
TeslaTakedown
teslatakedown.com

TeslaTakedown

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

Specific campaigns, Distributed campaigns, Advocacy tech
Project 2025
Political Tech Summit
politicaltech.eu

Political Tech Summit

Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.

Berlin
since 2024
Conferences, Meet the others, In-person meetings
Making TikTok, tick
rootcause.global/making-tiktok-tick

Making TikTok, tick

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2024
Media and social media analysis, Advocacy tech, Evidence-driven campaigning
TikTok, reports
AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence
uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/04160519-7402-44d7-8066-a528bb8c3d64/AI%20&%20Campaigning.pdf

AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
Advocacy tech, Artificial Intelligence, Campaign tools
AI & Campaigning Handbook
docs.google.com/document/d/1K3pvRmyLC1AjSmdZEW74Rs7Zby_uMEMahxPw59B6SUU/edit?tab=t.0

AI & Campaigning Handbook

Campaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
since 2023
Artificial Intelligence, Advocacy tech, Civic tech catalogs
Inescapable AI
techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai

Inescapable AI

Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United St...

Los Angeles, CA
Artificial Intelligence, Automated Decision-making Systems (ADS), Advocacy tech
reports, Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being
کارزار (Karzar)
karzar.net

کارزار (Karzar)

The largest Persian e-petition platform in Iran

Tehran
Petitions, Engagement tech, Advocacy tech
TechTonic Justice
techtonicjustice.org

TechTonic Justice

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

Los Angeles, CA
Artificial Intelligence, Advocacy tech, Access social benefits
Reduced inequalities
Stop AAPI Hate (SAH)
stopaapihate.org

Stop AAPI Hate (SAH)

Specific campaigns, Advocacy tech
Asian and Pacific Islander
IDREAM (Incubator for Defenders Remaining in Exile to Advance Movements)
cvt.org/what-we-do/movement-building/building-resilience/idream/idream-call-for-applications

IDREAM (Incubator for Defenders Remaining in Exile to Advance Movements)

A collaborative and global capacity development project designed to help address the unique needs of HRDs living in exile.

St. Paul, MN
Get funding, Advocacy tech, Cybersecurity
diaspora
Atlas by Murmuration
murmuration.org/atlas-by-murmuration

Atlas by Murmuration

Atlas by Murmuration is seamlessly integrated into our tools, providing the data that community-focused organizations need to drive change.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Civic data, Organize campaigns, Advocacy tech
Organizer by Murmuration
murmuration.org/organizer-by-murmuration

Organizer by Murmuration

Organizer provides community-focused organizations with the data and tools they need to foster meaningful connections and activate communities, so they can change the systems that are failing us.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Advocacy tech, Campaign tools, Organize campaigns
apps
Irídia
iridia.cat

Irídia

A Irídia defensem els drets civils i polítics. Denunciem la violència institucional i promovem canvis en les polítiques públiques. Actua!

Barcelona
Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations, Digital security and privacy
human rights, surveillance
Pro-Democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4245181

Pro-Democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations

A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks

since 2022
Peer-reviewed research, Research and policy centers, Advocacy tech
Project 2025
10X Your Vote
10xvotes.com

10X Your Vote

Find 10 friends who don't vote and we win.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Organize campaigns, Advocacy tech, Relational organizing
apps
SwipeBlue
swipeblue.org

SwipeBlue

SwipeBlue is a relational organizing app that matches your phone contacts to the voter file and shows you their party and districts. Just swipe blue (left) like Tinder to text them to register, donate...

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2020
Peer to peer SMS, Relational organizing, Organize campaigns
partisan, apps, US Election 2024
CampaignSidekick
campaignsidekick.vote

CampaignSidekick

Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Organize campaigns, Advocacy tech, Campaign tools
partisan, US Election 2024, apps
캠페인즈에 뱃지가 생겼어요! (Campaign badges)
campaigns.do/badges

캠페인즈에 뱃지가 생겼어요! (Campaign badges)

Gamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Games and gamification, Advocacy tech
Economic Change Unit
econchange.org

Economic Change Unit

The Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to

London
Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations
Decent work and economic growth
Activists Resource Hub
activists-resource-hub.com

Activists Resource Hub

We’ve put this guide together to point you to some of the brilliant resources available for UK activists.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Organize campaigns, Advocacy tech, The craft of organizing
guides
Hand-written Petition Scanner
hand-written-petition-scanner.streamlit.app

Hand-written Petition Scanner

An AI-powered tool designed to efficiently digitize handwritten petition sheets, transforming them into organized, upload-ready CSVs to streamline data management and optimize volunteer efforts.

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
Advocacy tech, Petitions, Artificial Intelligence
A22 Network
a22network.org

A22 Network

We are a growing international network ​racing to save everything we love by using effective civil resistance across our 12 countries.

Europe
Advocacy tech, Partner networks and coalitions
Climate action
Arthro5a.gr
arthro5a.gr

Arthro5a.gr

Κάθε πολίτης έχει το δικαίωμα να αποκτήσει πληροφορίες από δημόσιους οργανισμούς. Σύμφωνα με τον νόμο, οφείλουν να απαντήσουν.

Athens
Advocacy tech, Access to information, The Tech
Movement Voter Project (MVP)
movement.vote

Movement Voter Project (MVP)

Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2016
Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations, Organize campaigns
local, 2024 elections, partisan
Crowdvocate
crowdvocate.org

Crowdvocate

Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Crowdsourcing, Advocacy tech, Evidence-driven campaigning
Wyza
wyza.uk

Wyza

Make your campaign wiser with data & AI

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
Advocacy tech, Organize campaigns, Artificial Intelligence
Open Lab Athens
olathens.gr

Open Lab Athens

Research and Technology Lab

Athens
Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations
Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/counting-feminicide

Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

Civic data, Advocacy tech, Data activism
women, Gender Equality, books
Google Censorship
googlecensorship.org

Google Censorship

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

China (Zhong Guo) 🇨🇳
Access to information, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Civic data
Google, free speech
Scale to Win
new.scaletowin.com

Scale to Win

Text platform for grassroots fundraising and organizing

Organize campaigns, Advocacy tech, SMS tools
dumeditë
dumedite.org

dumeditë

Bëj dhe shfleto kërkesa për te Drejten e Informimit (DI)

Kosovo (Kosova) 🇽🇰
Advocacy tech, Access to information, The Tech
Alaveteli
CampaignTech Innovation Summit
campaigntechsummit.com

CampaignTech Innovation Summit

The People, Meet the others, In-person meetings
Relationality Lab
relationalitylab.org

Relationality Lab

We help people who nurture relationships that drive change prove that their work has impact.

St Louis, MO
Advocacy tech, Relational organizing, The craft of organizing
Jasy Renyhê Ecofeministas
jasyrenyhe.com

Jasy Renyhê Ecofeministas

Somos una organización de mujeres que tiene como principal objetivo acompañar los procesos de mujeres indígenas y campesinas para constituir un espacio donde las experiencias femeninas confluyan en ac...

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴
Advocacy tech, Campaign organizations
indigenous, Climate action, women
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