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Although not always explicitly civic tech, these categories are directly adjacent, like tech for other shared, public challenges, or foundational layers that must be present for civic tech to succeed in its goals.

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#BoycottNRA

Come for the discounts, stay for the opposition to common sense gun laws.

Ada's List

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

HAYAT

HAYAT

Moffett Field, Clark Road, Mountain View, California

Hayat Technologies is a specialised health-tech analytics and digital solutions provider

Aira

Aira

4225 Executive Square, La Jolla, CA 92037

Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button.

Círculo

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

7000 Languages

7000 Languages

745 Atlantic Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.

AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

#VisibileWikiWomen

#VisibileWikiWomen

Santa Cruz, CA

Centering the knowledges of marginalised communities from around the world. Re-imagining the internet to be for and from us all.

A People’s Guide to AI

A People’s Guide to AI

4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

Ada Developers Academy

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

PolicyKit

PolicyKit

United States of America 🇺🇸

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

Open Knowledge Brasil

Open Knowledge Brasil

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

A Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR), também chamada de Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre, é o capítulo da Open Knowledge Internacional no Brasil.

Digital Infrastructure Incubator

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

Co-op Foundation

Co-op Foundation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The Co-op Foundation helps disadvantaged communities overcome their challenges by putting co-operative values into practice. It aims to stimulate and strengthen community action that connects and empowers people so they can work together to make things better.

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

Legal Robot

Legal Robot

548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104

Legal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.

Up & Go

Up & Go

443 39th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

Law Padi

Law Padi

Nigeria 🇳🇬

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

The ODI's Data Ethics Canvas

The ODI's Data Ethics Canvas

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

Sign Dict

Sign Dict

Richard-Sorge-Straße, Berlin, Germany

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

Barefoot Law

Barefoot Law

Uganda 🇺🇬

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

Centre for Indigenous Innovation and Technology

A non-profit that works to address the underrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the technology and innovation sectors in Canada.

Data & Society Research Institute

Data & Society Research Institute

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

Human Rights Data Analysis Group

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

Seeing AI

Seeing AI

Redmond, WA

A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

My Legal Briefcase

My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

The Layman's Lawyer

The Layman's Lawyer

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

On the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.

Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

We propose an effort to develop a “Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools”. This will be delivered by an informal group of like-minded organizations coming together around a common purpose.

Libre AI

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

Digital Integrity Fellowship

Digital Integrity Fellowship

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

Police Case

Police Case

Sierra Leone 🇸🇱

Police Case uses popular TV culture to educate the public about legal rights and the justice system.

Baobab Law

Baobab Law

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

Baobab.law attempts to remove barriers to legal assistance by providing DIY legal solutions in the form of videotutorials. Videos are recorded with professional lawyers, and are available in multiple languages.

Centro de Relevo

Centro de Relevo

Cra. 8a, Bogotá, Colombia

Inclusion for allowing citizens with hearing impairment to interact with public services and institutions.

Vframe

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

Famalia

Famalia

Kenya 🇰🇪

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

Haki Law App

Haki Law App

Kenya 🇰🇪

Haki Law App intends to make knowledge about laws easily accessible. The mobile application provides legalinformation and connects citizens to lawyers.

NetHope

NetHope

10615 Judicial Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

NetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.

ElectionGuard

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

Legal Health Check-up

Legal Health Check-up

Halton Community Legal Services, Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON, Canada

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

Pakistani Lawyer

Pakistani Lawyer

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Pakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.

eclips.is

eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.

ClickLaw

ClickLaw

British Columbia

ClickLaw provides legal information and a map of legal support services in British Columbia.

Digital Impact

Digital Impact

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

NYC Connectivity Challenge

NYC Connectivity Challenge

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies

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