Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Will Star facilitates the online creation of a will. Upon completion, users can download, print and sign the document.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

PROGRAM ON PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

• reports

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Digital literacy

The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Emerging Tech report orgs

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• landlord

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Justika offers real-time legal support over the telephone for a broad range of problems, such as marriage, inheritance, and employment.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Rechtwijzer is an online dispute resolution site. It provides legal remedies and online tools to help parties settledisputes without a lawyer.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Helpline Law connects people with lawyers and law firms as per their needs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Civil Resolution is an application for online dispute resolution. It helps resolve small claims and strata property disputes.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

A youth initiative to increase digital citizenship in local communities

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

We are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Okthanks is an independent organization providing research and product design services for open source technology. We unite with a mission to leverage technology for social good.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.

• criminal justice

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Users can use the guided workflows to find legal assistance.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

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."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

The free transparency certification

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital literacy

Hukoomi is an e-governance application which provides access to a broad range of information, including legal information for business, and information about visa and immigration procesess.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

JusticeTrans offers legal information about transgender rights across Canada.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

Wonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing questions for the Internet.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

• APIs

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields