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The Civic Tech Graveyard is where we where you can visit, celebrate, and pay your respects to the projects that are no longer with us. This collection was gathered for the purposes of original research by Micah Sifry and Matt Stempeck and continues to be updated with new entrants. One of the main objectives of the Civic Tech Field Guide is to help the field’s builders and funders learn what didn’t work, so they can make and fund things that do. Which makes this page one of the most important on this site. Learn more on our civic tech graveyard research page.

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Glassbox

a protocol for news publishers to open the history of changes of any Wordpress-based site. The intention was to give audiences the possibility of seeing stealth edits in the news.

Fakeblok

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

FightHoax

FightHoax offered a seamless way to extract actionable insights from news, allowing DSPs to increase the advertising ROI for their customers, through smart brand safety filters and deep contextual targeting.

Trusted Times

Trusted Times uses a browser extension to identify fake and unreliable news and presents additional analysis through machine learning of any news article to show a reporter’s and news source’s bias, if any. Trusted Times screens thousands of news websites in the United States.

Bitpress Misinformation Detector

Misinformation Detector was a "decentralized trust protocol" tool to track news credibility.

The Whistle

The Whistle

Israel (Jisra'el)

Globes' Whistle examines public statements by public figures in order to provide readers and news consumers with an essential tool for their informed and critical examination.

NewsQ

NewsQ seeks to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news articles online. We approach this problem by engaging in design thinking activities in collaboration with technology, journalism, academia and other communities.

Quod

Quod

United States of America (the)

Quod was a project to create an open database of misinformation on the web. It was created to crowdsource the difficult task of identifying and cataloging misinformation published online. You can participate by reporting misinformation you encounter online.

Certified Content Coalition

The Certified Content Coalition certified trustworthy publishers that meet fundamental standards, giving consumers confidence in journalistic content.

Our.News

"Our.News - now in its beta - provides in-sight tools and add-ons that fact check news stories aggregated from across the internet on the spot." - Counteringdisinformation.org

Disinfo Portal

DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.

FakerFact

FakerFact was an Artificial Intelligence tool built to help us understand more about what we read.

DIRT Protocol

DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation that uses token staking to incentivize honesty.

Digital Polarization Initiative

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

Emergent.io

Emergent.io

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker.

RoveR

RoveR is an app to help you spot real over rubbish news!

FCC Affordable Connectivity Program

FCC Affordable Connectivity Program

United States of America (the)

The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.

The Online Hate Index

What if we could use rules, tests, and parameters to isolate hate speech? Can we identify and analyze elements like speaker intent, context, identity, tone, audience, or any number of indicators that transform words into meanings and change an innocuous statement into a verbal assault? Combating the proliferation of online hate speech and understanding its mechanics is a complex undertaking

PDX City Sync

PDX City Sync

Portland, OR

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

@CongressRfp

@CongressRfp

Washington, DC

Twitter bot that tweets RFPs from US legislative branch agencies. This is a public interest bot and a project of Demand Progress.

San Francisco Public Voice Civic User Testing Program

By CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.

596 Acres

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

Alloy

Alloy

United States of America (the)

Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.

Vocaleyes

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

EveryPolitician

EveryPolitician

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

Applied Research in Goverment Operations

Applied Research in Goverment Operations

525 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, California 90013, USA

A new kind of public institution, the world’s first data utility

Action Path

Action Path

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

@congressedits

@congressedits

Washington, DC

tracked edits made to Wikipedia from U.S. Capitol computers

61Fresh

61Fresh

The Boston Globe, Exchange Place, Boston, MA, USA

An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

100 Resilient Cities

100 Resilient Cities

The Rockefeller Foundation, 5th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

We help cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st century.

Alia

Alia

National Domestic Workers Alliance, Broadway, New York, NY, USA

Alia was an online platform to help house cleaners get benefits. National Domestic Workers Alliance has pivoted to an organizational membership model instead of a branded platform.

4Facts

4Facts is a tool that allows you to easily evaluate the credibility of your posts by commenting and flagging problems encountered in various articles. Check the facts, compete with the pros, and raise your media literacy!

#StopTheCoup UK

#StopTheCoup UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Resist the Parliament Shutdown. protest map, calendar, updates, posters.

C3PLACES

C3PLACES

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

Engage

Engage

Los Angeles, CA

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

Ontario Digital Service

The Ontario Digital Service (ODS) is a hub of technologists, designers and digital government experts who deliver user-centred products and digital policies using agile processes and data-driven methods.

TransparenCEE

Was "a community of non-profit, IT, and media organizations that use technology for better transparency, accountability, and governance in the Central and Eastern Europe region."

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