Civic Tech Field Guide

Bolivia Verifica

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴

Bolivia Verifica is a non-profit, non-political digital media that is dedicated to the verification of false news and public discourse to fight against disinformation and improve democratic participation.

Assessment of Online Risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

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Aos Fatos

Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.

Annir Initiative

Libya (Libiyah) 🇱🇾

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

Al Sur

South America

"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.

Alternative News Networks

Oxford

This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.

Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)

Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano Nigeria

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.

Access to Information Community of Practice

Center for Policy Alternatives

Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

Checkology

Checkology’s lessons and other resources show you how to navigate today’s challenging information landscape.

Chequea Bolivia

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia

Indonesia 🇮🇩

cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Animal Político

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

AFRICMIL

Abuja

AFRICMIL is non-government organisation that focuses on media, information, research, advocacy and training. It aims to promote media and information literacy as a key component in the enhancement of democracy and good governance and the promotion of accountability and orderly society.

A guide to anti-misinformation legal actions around the world

Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation

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BOOM

Mumbai

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

Bot Sentinel

In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

X (Twitter)

Be Internet Awesome

Mountain View, CA

Google's digital media literacy training for kids

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Monitor do WhatsApp

Minas Gerais

This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.

WhatsApp

Mnemonic

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

Mobile Information Literacy Project

The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.

Memo 98

Slovak Republic (Slovensko) 🇸🇰

Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.

SSRC Media Well

Brooklyn

Disinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.

MediaWise

The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.

MediaBiasFactCheck

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

USAID Media Program in Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦

The USAID-funded Media Program in Ukraine will empower local media to expand Ukrainian citizens’ access to high-quality news and information.

Speak Up & Stay Safe(r): A Guide to Protecting Yourself From Online Harassment

A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.

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Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class

Stanford, CA

The COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.

South Asia Check

Kathmandu

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

Social Media Monitoring During the 2020-2021 Elections in Georgia

Tbilisi

The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.

Social Science One

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Social Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.

Siberkreasi

Jakarta

SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.

Snopes

United States of America 🇺🇸

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.

Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Santa Clara Principles On Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation cover various aspects of content moderation, developed by legal scholars and technologists based mostly in the United States, targeting social media companies with large use bases.

The Pledge for Election Integrity

"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org

The Media Manipulation Casebook

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

Case studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.

The (mis)informed citizen

London

Research project at the Alan Turing Institute

The Citizen Browser Project

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initiative designed to measure how disinformation travels across social media platforms over time.