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Digital Access (Cameroon)

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

Cameroon
2016
campaigns, buildings, harassment, research, Access to Information Community of Practice, trainings, workshops, youth, human rights, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), literacy, Meta, private data public good, Global South Alliance, Civic tech communities and platforms, Quality education

SwipeBlue

SwipeBlue is a relational organizing app that matches your phone contacts to the voter file and shows you their party and districts. Just swipe blue (left) like Tinder to text them to register, donate, attend an event, or vote!

USA
2020
campaigns, towns, US Election 2024, partisan, Your Priorities, democracy, People Powered, apps

GoodParty.org

GoodParty.org empowers Independent candidates to run for office, win their elections, and serve their communities.

USA
2023
campaigns, third party, Civic tech communities and platforms

Police Scorecard

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

2024
campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards, criminal justice, racial equity, 2024 Webby Awards, police violence

Name Reclaim

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.

Canada
campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards, Asian and Pacific Islander

End Qualified Immunity

A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards

Students not Products

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.

campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards, youth, students, Quality education

The Systemic Racism Pin

We 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.

Quebec City, QC, Canada
campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards, racial equity

Make DMs Safe

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.

campaigns, 2023 Webby Awards