The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

• Good health and well-being
• MOOCs

• Digital transformation
• Open knowledge

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• Consul
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Govtech vendors

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise
• surveillance

• Specific campaigns
• Open justice
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Civic data
• Media
• Research and policy centers

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.

• students

• Challenges

"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance."

• books

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning
• Deepfakes

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

The Schwab Foundation’s 2023 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories

• Awards and prizes

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

• WhatsApp

• Circumvention tech
• Civic features

Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Digital transformation

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Helping You Move Beyond Debt

• Decent work and economic growth

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good

Donor Management and Fundraising Software for Nonprofits

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

US-based Government & Nonprofit Portfolio

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Evaluate impact
• Building in the private sector

Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.

• racial equity

• Media
• Games and gamification

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting

A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning

• Quality education

• Open knowledge

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• Media
• Games and gamification

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Civic teams at tech companies
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?

• apps
• Quality education

• Emerging tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Blockchain

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Peer networks

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Our mission is to accelerate deep ocean exploration by developing accessible systems to broaden the community of those who explore and understand the deep sea.

• Life below water
• sustainability

We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.

• Life below water

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Environmental data

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Solidarity networks

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Internet governance, with and for citizens

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Internet governance