Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• Build something
• Cybersecurity
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and augmented reality

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.

• Adjacent Fields
• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic teams at tech companies
• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic maps

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic maps

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

European Institute for Participative Democracy

GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM. AWARD-WINNING FILMS.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Incubators

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

Transparency International chapter

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.