An index of news sites rated by their Misinfo.me credibility scores

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way

• Climate action

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Realtime data. Unified Public Safety workflow. Reduced emergency response times.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Govtech
• Emergency services

Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.

• Govtech
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Emergency services

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Open civic data

A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy

GDDF 2023 builds on three years of successful global virtual forums that engage over 3,000 participants each time and feature keynote speakers from USAID, tech companies, and across the digital development ecosystem.

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Govtech
• Archives

A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Apax the global private equity advisory firm that owns Bonterra, the umbrella company holding many of the political organizing and fundraising tools in the US.

Representative for Massachusetts Jake Auchincloss used ChatGPT to help introduce legislation supporting AI research

• ChatGPT

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity

Code for Dallas is an official Code for America Brigade in Dallas, TX working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Get funding
• Emerging tech
• Foundation initiatives

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

GDS service for government users to notify constituents

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Courses

A tech-centric portal for US government jobs

• Govtech
• Job boards
• Building inside government

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better. Together with citizens, politicians, and institutions we will improve our democracies.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Awards and prizes

An iconography and lexicon for communicating which technologies are in use in public places

• place-based

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital security and privacy
• Trustmarks

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Funders & donors
• Get funding
• Blockchain

We use emerging technologies - like blockchain, IoT devices and sensors, and artificial intelligence - to address some of the world’s most pressing issues, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In fact, we're registered private sector partner for the Goals #26585.

• Emerging tech

Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.

• Media
• Decentralization
• Trustmarks

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Theseus is an enterprise logistics system to track, trace and optimize the global movement of food goods while reducing waste, fostering fair economic opportunities, and directly engaging consumers to learn more about the origins of their food.

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Homeward is an identity management system and intelligent resettlement platform for displaced populations.

• refugees
• migration

• Identity
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

• Good health and well-being
• MOOCs

• Open knowledge
• Digital transformation

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good
• Courses

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• CONSUL

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• CONSUL
• trainings

• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory democracy
• Govtech vendors

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing

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

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Civic data

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. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Research and policy centers
• Media
• Civic data

One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic maps
• Civic data

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy