How are people engaging the public and private sectors to help contribute to a collective response to the pandemic? How are people helping to contribute informal, mutual aid, to address common needs like social connection and remote work? How is the trend towards digital civic engagement accelerating because of social distancing requirements? We'll track global responses to these needs here.
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.
GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.
"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."
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.
European Institute for Participative Democracy
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.
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.
Transparency International chapter
Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.
Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community). KeepItInTheCommunity, the site that maps Assets of Community Value and other community-owned spaces and places, is moving to a new home with the Plunkett Foundation.
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