An incubator empowering community-based archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural organizations to explore decentralized strategies for preserving collective memory.

• culture

• Archives
• Decentralization
• Incubators

Gray Area is a San Francisco-based nonprofit cultural incubator.

• culture

• Build something
• Incubators

The Complete Patriot’s Guide series unpacks American myths, icons, and traditions to reveal their civic DNA.

• culture

• Artistic interventions
• Civic literacy

Internet Archive Europe is a project by the Dutch non-profit research library Stichting Internet Archive. It is building collections and tools to bring them to life.

• culture

• Artificial Intelligence
• Archives
• Open knowledge

"I found the real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists."

• culture

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world's most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all.

• culture

• Open source
• Open knowledge
• Open internet

Explore endangered languages using AI. Let your camera translate the world around you.

• culture
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation

The STRONG Manoomin Collective is a tribally-driven research effort that aims to strengthen Ojibwe resilience by supporting development of scientific and environmental governance capacity.

• indigenous
• Clean water and sanitation
• Zero hunger

• Engagement tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Natural Language Processing

To make arts and culture more visible and accessible to people in outskirt neighborhoods of Berlin, particularly those with migration, asylum, and exile histories.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Crowdsourced project to collect data on sake and sake breweries from across Japan, integrates lost historical data, and utilizes digital technology to establish stronger connections between producers and consumers.

• culture

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps
• Economic development

Neste espaço as pessoas são estimuladas a trabalhar em rede e a colaborar umas com as outras, formando comunidades e compartilhando sonhos.

• Climate action
• culture

• Artistic interventions

Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.

• culture
• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Mapas Culturais é uma plataforma colaborativa que reúne informações sobre agentes, espaços, eventos e projetos culturais, fornecendo ao poder público uma radiografia da área de cultura e ao cidadão um mapa de espaços e eventos culturais da região

• culture
• Brazil (federal government)

As an academic community that believes in technology’s potential to have a positive impact on public life, Missouri S&T is honored to be recognized as a member of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).

• culture
• Gender Equality

• Public Interest Tech

Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…

• culture

• Archives
• Cameras

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions

The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.

• Climate action
• culture
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

• culture

• Narrative tech
• Artistic interventions

An automated query in Wikidata of all existing profiles of Venezuelan authors, scientists and creators whose works are in the public domain according to national and international laws by virtue of the time elapsed since their death.

• Wikipedia
• culture

• Open knowledge

Digital Benin brings together all objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century.

• culture
• decolonization

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

The Center for Cultural Power is a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature.

• culture

Nous sommes l’Open Knowledge Foundation France, un groupe local de l’Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), créé en décembre 2012.

• culture

• Open knowledge

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. We cultivate and facilitate critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.

• history
• place-based
• culture

• Artistic interventions

Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden

• culture
• history
• place-based

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech