After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs

• Apple
• sustainability

• Media
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Investigative journalism tech

Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Report cards and audits

Madagascar Initiatives for Digital Innovation est une association à but non lucratif régie par l'Ordonnance n°60-133 du 03 octobre 1960.

• Civic data

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

IT for Change is an NGO based in Bengaluru, India. IT for Change aims for a society in which digital technologies contribute to human rights, social justice and equity.

• Gender Equality
• Quality education

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Internet governance

We equip every individual with the tools they need to live a safe, protected, and informed digital life.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people

The digital department of the Italian government

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).

• reports

• Fieldwide resources

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

• Legal tech
• Open justice
• Research tools

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap
• United Nations

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network

• Media
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Pushing the Boundaries of Scientific Innovation to Create a Smarter, Sustainable, and Resilient Future for Communities

• Govtech
• Foundation initiatives
• Public Private Partnerships

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Data schemas and standards
• Open knowledge

Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

If you are new to low-cost and open hardware and open science, start your exploration with the introduction to low-cost and open source tools toolkit!

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

Since 1968, our nonpartisan insight and analysis has helped power the decisions of policymakers, civic leaders, and the general public across a wide spectrum of beliefs and backgrounds.

The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.

• Media
• Games and gamification

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

Real-time flood sensors were developed by the FloodSense project at NYU and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), with a goal of providing information on the presence, frequency, and depth of hyperlocal street-level flood events to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, government agencies, citizens, emergency response teams, community advocacy groups, and researchers.

• floods

• Civic maps

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

A collective of solutions journalists

• Media
• Peer networks
• Solutions journalism

We Build Digital Tools for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Legal tech
• Open justice

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

• state

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

• city

• Get funding
• Connectivity

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Service delivery

A better and faster way to track methane

• Climate action
• methane

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A platform to consolidate emergency medical needs across a country, create aid packages of medicines and supplies, centralize supplier quotations, select most cost-effective supplier, and match donors willing to fund aid packages.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Fundraising tools

We are Environmental Defense Fund, the organization that is all-in on climate — the greatest challenge of our time. Our game-changing solutions put people at the center of all we do.

• Climate action
• Life below water
• Good health and well-being

School of Geography and Environment, a university department known for its research and teaching in the field of geography and environmental studies, along with its affiliated research centers and networks.

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

The mission of ANHD is to build community power to win affordable housing and thriving, equitable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers

• housing

Discover social impact jobs supporting the Sustainable Development Goals at mission-driven organizations.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Nonprofit tech
• Job boards

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Civic maps

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Watchdogging government

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND is creating spaces for innovators, where they can take risks and think radically different.

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact
• Academia

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Resource matching and sharing

The Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Adjacent Fields

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Open justice

Hearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.

• Media
• Engagement journalism

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

• Crowdsourcing
• Narrative tech
• Consumer watchdogging