The Lebanese Transparency Association

Transparency & open data · Beirut

Beirut Urban Lab

Refugees as City-Makers.

Mapping & citizen science · Beirut

Beirut Urban Observatory

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

Digital commons & funding · Beirut

Digital Rights Fund for West Asia and North Africa

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

Mapping & citizen science · Beirut

Mapping NGOs Repairs

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast.

Digital rights · Beirut

SMEX

Beirut-based nonprofit advocating for digital rights across West Asia and North Africa.

Digital rights · Beirut

SMEX Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on…

Transparency & open data · Nairobi

Ushahidi

Open source crowdmapping platform, first built to map reports of violence after Kenya's 2007 election.

Transparency & open data · Cape Town

OpenUp

South African civic tech organisation building tools around municipal budgets and public data.

Transparency & open data · Cambridge

AI Ethics Initiative

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

Transparency & open data · Washington, D.C.

AFL-CIO Tech Institute

The AFL-CIO Tech Institute works at the intersection of technological innovation in the workplace, centering worker knowledge, expertise, and interests in our modern innovation-based economy with the goal of ensuring that technological…

Transparency & open data · Boston

Disability Data Standard

We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.

Transparency & open data · Washington, D.C.

DC Compass

DC Compass, launched in March, uses generative AI to answer user questions and create maps from open data sets, ranging from the district’s population to what different trees are planted in the city.