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This is our collection of discrete tech-supported campaigns designed to create a change in the world. A campaign is the method in which we organize people to shift power. Technology has changed how campaigns operate, for the better (it's never been easier or cheaper to reach and organize large numbers of people) and the worse (private data has been used to profile voters, and technology is accused of facilitating shallower relationships between supporters).
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Najemniški SOS
SloveniaResources and story-based campaign for tenants' rights in Slovenia
![Is your [UK] council fuelling the climate crisis?](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ctfg-airtable/screenshots/rec2opTaK3Yl8q3aE/httpsplatformlondonorgisyourcoun)
Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies
An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook
We're Right Here
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.
8M LATAM
Latin AmericaEl objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nosotras.
A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico
DataIgualdad
Latin AmericaRevisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina
FairVote
MarylandFairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.
Gig Workers Rising
San Jose, California, USACampaign to rally everyone who works on apps for a living wage, transparency on the job, safe conditions, and a voice in their work
Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API
an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients
Democracy Beyond Elections
United States of America (the)A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
Black Tech Agenda and Scorecard
Washington, DCBlack communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.
HetzJaeger
GermanyA campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
Decriminalize Poverty
TennesseeThis narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.
ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.
A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages
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Israel"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector
Gas Leaks
United States of America (the)Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation
#STOPSHOTSPOTTER
United States of America (the)A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."
IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.
The fundraising spam is out of control. Here's how that happened — and how we take back our inboxes.
ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.
Redes Ayuda
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)Derechos Humanos en Venezuela #RedesAyuda #ONG
AidAccess
United States of America (the)Online consult for abortion pills by mail
Eduplana
NigeriaEduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.
Take Back The Tech! is a call to everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women.
La Constitución es Nuestra
Santiago, ChileProyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
IBAN discrimination is when a bank or company doesn’t accept your IBAN because it’s not from the same country in which the bank or company is based.
Public Bank LA
Los Angeles, CABanking as a public utility is a proven model worldwide. Public banks keep money local and cut costs by eliminating middlemen, shareholders and high-paid executives.
Archiving local political websites
United States of America (the)Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.
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.
Count the Nation
Los Angeles, CAThe USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.
The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.
Data Zetu Intiaitive
Tanzania, United Republic ofData Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Rethink Aadhaar
IndiaThe Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.
An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.
Automating NYC
New York CityWe want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.
Data Lanterns
MIT Media Labilluminating local water quality through data performances for collective action
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