Civic Tech Field Guide
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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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Transparency International Thailand
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA). 118 Seri Thai Road, Knlong Chan Bangkapi, Bangkok 10240.
Transparency International Russia - Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiative
6 Nikoloyamskaya Street, 109240, Moscow, Russia, 109240Transparency International chapter
Demos Budget
TuTech Innovation GmbH, Interactive Communication, Harburger Schlobstrabe 6-12, 21079 Hamburg, Germany
You Can Plan
YouCanPlan Team, Slider Studio Ltd, Knowledge Dock Centre, 4 University Way, London, E16 2RD, UK
Champion (previously Progressive Power Lab)
United States of America (the)Progressive Power Lab provides management and marketing services to nonprofit and for-profit organizations working to realize democracy, achieve justice, and restore our environment
Funding massively-scalable, long-termist projects with an effective altruism lens
The FTX Foundation is a philanthropic collective
Biden Administration Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USANon-binding guidance from the White House
Shift
71 St John Street London EC1M 4NJ UKWe take a collective approach to tackling social problems. We use design thinking to help organisations maximise their impact.
Project Polis
Vienna, VAWe aspire to build a new kind of political training and development, that leverages network effects, enables more self-directed learning, and is radically more practical. Alumnis will innovate the political sphere, and gain influence by doing so.
Kilter
Charleston, South CarolinaDonate Your Hustle
Ex Nihila is a community of founders, designers, and technologists that build and launch new ventures.
Hawkfish
New York CityHawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.
A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.
DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation that uses token staking to incentivize honesty.
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
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.
The Certified Content Coalition certified trustworthy publishers that meet fundamental standards, giving consumers confidence in journalistic content.
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.
"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
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.
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.
FakerFact was an Artificial Intelligence tool built to help us understand more about what we read.
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.
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.
Mediabugs was a service for correcting errors and problems in media coverage.
DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.
Misinformation Detector was a "decentralized trust protocol" tool to track news credibility.
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.
Hansard (Millbank Systems version)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Now available at https://hansard.parliament.uk/
@CongressRfp
Washington, DCTwitter bot that tweets RFPs from US legislative branch agencies. This is a public interest bot and a project of Demand Progress.
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
Poland-based design studio that builds civic products
PDX City Sync
Portland, ORPDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.
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.
San Francisco Public Voice Civic User Testing Program
San FranciscoBy 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.
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.
Democracy Workers Collective
New York CityA union for Democracy Works employees. Fulfilling the promise of a more equitable, sustainable, and representative democracy, inside and outside of Democracy Works.
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