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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
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Draftlab

Creative project design for social good champions through appropriate technology that strengthens human systems.

The Hague, Netherlands
2023
coaching, research, experiments, European Union, trainings, human rights, humanitarian

Agora Citizen Network

Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.

France
2024
peace, United Nations, Rarimo, research, European Union, youth, Civic tech communities and platforms

HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

Fluwelen Burgwal 582511, The Hague, The Netherlands
2019
research

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy: Data Tool

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy

research

Democratic Innovation in Megacities

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
city, research, Sustainable cities and communities

Digital Rights Foundation

Helping make the internet safer and more accessible

Pakistan
research, women, trainings, human rights, Global South Alliance

The democratic potential of civic applications

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

research

The Public Impact Observatory

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

10, Rue de Rive 1204 Geneva Switzerland
2017
research